EVERYONE!! GO CHECK OUT THIS NEW BOOK ON THE VARIOUS GENDERS FOUND IN TALMUD!!
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions.
Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law.
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made a little something cos I’m obsessed with this photo
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ALERT: RARE TUMMY SIGHTING
[Image Description: a big black cat laying on his side on the floor and looking up at the camera. On the partially-exposed lower abdomen, a large white tummy patch is visible. End I.D.]
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art for the frontier rp server
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@snowtombedstar
SORRY, HUMANS ARE THE ONLY BEINGS WITH FLESH NOW?
"Cannibalism requires that I consume my own species, not just that I indulge in the flesh of another living being. I am a dragon. That precludes me as a cannibal because those of my species are... few, and far, and exceedingly rare."
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6 puppies in the tummy and 6 puppies out of the tummy
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