Torah for Trans Lives
Torah for Trans Lives
Podcast Description
In the shadow of persecution, a podcast of Jewish and other wisdom for our spiritual survival. Trans thought leader Lexi Kohanski delivers her sermon-style takes on how we can make it through one of the worst outbursts of transphobia the world has ever known. Each episode Lexi serves you a blend of politics, queerness, and spirituality, mysticism and the moment. This is Torah for Trans Lives.
Torah for Trans Lives is a Torah Studio podcast, written, produced and performed by Lexi Kohanski. Our volunteer editor is Austin Coulson. Our graphic is “Rivka and Yitzchak” by Rena Yehuda Newman. Our title music is “Lekhabot et haAhavah” by Rabbi Noam Lerman. I’m so glad you’ve listened.
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The podcast focuses on the intersection of spirituality, queerness, and political awareness, with episodes discussing topics like trans rights, spiritual survival, and biblical wisdom, exemplified by the first episode addressing life and death amidst transphobic policy changes.
In the shadow of persecution, a podcast of Jewish and other wisdom for our spiritual survival. Trans thought leader Lexi Kohanski delivers her sermon-style takes on how we can make it through one of the worst outbursts of transphobia the world has ever known. Each episode Lexi serves you a blend of politics, queerness, and spirituality, mysticism and the moment. This is Torah for Trans Lives.
Torah for Trans Lives is a Torah Studio podcast, written, produced and performed by Lexi Kohanski. Our volunteer editor is Austin Coulson. Our graphic is “Rivka and Yitzchak” by Rena Yehuda Newman. Our title music is “Lekhabot et haAhavah” by Rabbi Noam Lerman. I’m so glad you’ve listened.
The Arrogant Kingdom’s executive order writing trans people out of existence decrees there is such a thing as “biological truth.” Okay, darlings, so let’s talk about biology and truth. The truth of the body is linked with the mystery of the purpose of Creation, and it all centers around what it means to build a dwelling place for the Presence of God.
Sources brought in this episode: the Maor vaShemesh on Parshas Terumah, reporting from Erin In the Morning on the University of Cincinnati’s “biological” bathroom signs, Lexi’s Gashmius essay “A Lesson from God in Trans Visibility,” Jennifer Finney Boylan on Shania Twain’s Man, I Feel Like a Woman! and the shadows of a section from Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble that didn’t quite make the final cut.
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