Giti thadani biography of abraham
First openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution and a poet reflects on how to do the hard and holy work of inclusion....
In this article, we recount the development of an anti-caste consciousness in queer and transgender rights movements in India.
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In fact, in many of these cosmogonies one does not find consorted deities of the opposite sex but dual deities of the same sex (both male and female) being referred to as twins (jami).
Normally in a binary situation there would be heaven and earth, both static – earth below and heaven/sky above. That binary dualism would be then reflected and repeated in binary gender roles as well, in a man/woman or father/mother dualism.
However, when one has a dual masculine or feminine deities with a third entity, another dynamic develops: one could speak of an equilateral triangle in which all three sides are equal.
This creates a complex cosmological philosophy that builds on dynamic movements and new forms of combining, rearranging and meeting and, in this process, creating interchangeable chains, constellations and patterns – akin somewhere to Bach’s “Art of the Fugue.” For me, his work reverberates and expresses such dynamic constellations and patterns.
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