To honor Transgender Day of Visibility, we want to highlight these incredible trans Jewish visionaries and leaders who have contributed so much in terms of art, literature, religion, justice, and more.
Want to learn more about Trans Visibility Day? Check out these resources, courtesy of GLSEN.
Lindz Amer, YouTuber and creator of Queer Kids Stuff
Photo credit goes to James Dillon III @the_third_and_only on Instagram
S. Bear Bergman, children’s and adults’ book author and publisher, founder of Flamingo Rampant press, dazzling Keshet OUTstanding! gala emcee
Kate Bornstein, author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist, honored at OUTstanding! honoree and featured in a Keshet LGBTQ heroes poster
Sol J Brager, artist
daph ben david, educator and artist
Noach Dzmura, Jewish community leader, teacher, writer, and freelance communications professional
August Eberlein, online personality
Emet Ezell, writer, community organizer, and founder of The Barnacle Goose
Leslie Feinberg (z”l), butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author
KB Frazier, audiologist, musician, rabbinical school student, leader of Keshet’s Spiritual Healing for LGBTQ Jews of Color
Ezra Furman, singer/songwriter
Yishay Garbasz, artist
Lior Gross and Eyal Rivlin, creators of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
Rabbi Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater, radical transfeminist rabbi and activist.
Rabbi Eliana Kayelle, choreographer, director, founder of You Gotta Give ‘Em Torah
Binya Kóatz, poet, coder, activist, ritual-maker, facilitator, creator of Keshet’s simanim / ye’i rasones for Rosh Hashanah
Rabbi Elliot Kukla, chaplain, author, activist, artist
Joy Ladin, essayist, poet, scholar, honored at OUTstanding!, Keshet emeritus board member
Davia Loren, pediatrician, associate professor, clinician-educator
Mycroft Masada, LGBTQ+, fat & illness/disability liberation leader, writer, artist
Mx. Cleo Mizrahi, artist, stylist, filmmaker
Rena Yehuda Newman, artist, zine-maker, editor at New Voices Magazine
Qamar, artist, voice actor
Martin Rawlings-Fein, filmmaker, educator, elected official, liturgist
Eliana Rubin, educator and musician
Becky Silverstein, rabbi, SVARA fellow, founder of Beyn Kodesh l’Chol, OUTstanding! honoree and Keshet emeritus board member
Rachel SJ, actor, singer
Michael Sokolovsky and Xava De Cordova, co-hosts of the podcast Xai How Are You
Abby Stein, activist, author, speaker, educator, rabbi, OUTstanding! honoree
Enzi Tanner, social worker, community organizer
Jaz Twersky and Lulavet Arnow, cohosts of the podcast Kosher Queers
Lauren Zannah, online personality
