Gender

I have been in relationship with Joseph for years — wondering, puzzling, collecting the many hints in Torah that point to some queerness, some difference in Joseph’s gender.

Finding the strength to read Bilhah and Zilpah as possessing power and autonomy helps me do that for myself.

Can we tell stories that return the female to equal footing with the male?

As time goes on, more and more I think of non-binary people as emissaries from the future.

By telling and re-telling difficult, even ethically repugnant, stories in the Torah, we may move from silence to healing and from narrowness to expanse.

Transgender people, in expressing their true gender identity, do so to be more authentic to themselves and, in many ways, to be closer to the image of the Creator in which they were made.

What matters most is being who you feel yourself to be.

When we approach texts and traditions with assumptions that are fundamental to trans liberation, such as respect of bodily autonomy and self-definition, we end up with readings that never would have been possible before.

Euphoric halakhah is the process by which we uncover legal principles and applications that enable us to find the authentic, affirming, joyful and liberatory expressions of who we are.

Hope somehow emerges from trauma. Love is possible and in a variety of forms.