Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Importance of Looking Like a Woman
To me it felt like my body was sort of a billboard that people rented out to project your idea of me here. So I avoided the vocabulary of feeling. It's really, really hard to be much of a poet. If you, to me, being female meant really being alive, so I avoided language that to me connoted really being alive. Do you use the word marvelous much these days? You know, I'm afraid I don't. Should I? Would I be more real?
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