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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Joy Ladin with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

For as far back as Joy Ladin can remember, her body didn’t match her soul. In her mid-40s, Ladin transitioned from male to female identity and later became the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. She admits the pain this caused for people and institutions she loved. And she knows what it is to move through the world with the assumed authority of a man and the assumed vulnerability of a woman. We take in what she’s learned about gender and the very syntax of being.

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0:00.0

Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.

0:07.0

Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives.

0:13.0

A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world.

0:19.0

Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

0:22.0

I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with Joy Layden.

0:27.0

There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.

0:32.0

Hi Joy, can you hear me?

0:34.0

Hi, I can.

0:36.0

That's fine.

0:39.0

So this is Christa Tippett here?

0:42.0

Nice to virtually meet you.

0:44.0

Yes, exactly.

0:46.0

Christa, we need some banter to get levels.

0:51.0

Okay.

0:52.0

So I don't want to talk about anything meaningful yet, so tell me something like, tell me what you had for lunch.

0:59.0

I'll tell you something even less meaningful, which is that my hair is stuck under the headphones, so I'm busy trying to extricate it.

1:07.0

Do you have help with that or do you need help with that?

1:10.0

I'm going to have to take them off and start over.

1:13.0

All right, no problem.

1:22.0

Okay, is this better?

1:26.0

Is it, are you okay?

1:28.0

Does it work now?

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