The other day in class I mentioned the red and black shoes with bells on them that Jewish women were sometimes required to wear. There is some info on red shoes and shoes with bells that I found through Wikipedia, but nothing terribly conclusive. Here's where that idea came from and what I have to say about it:
I'm a huge fan and avid watcher of this show called Transparent. It stars Jeffrey Tambour, who plays a transgender woman and father of three adult children. What I think is particularly interesting about this show is that it explores a wide range of topics and controversies within gender and sexuality studies. One of these topics is how Judaism and sexuality intersect, which explored in the storyline of the youngest daughter, Ali.
Ali explores her heritage and learns of her ancestors who were murdered in the Holocaust, and there are several scenes depicting the destruction of libraries and institutes dedicated to gender and sexuality studies. Sexuality studies seems like a field that is still so new and trying to find its academic footing, but in actuality there were entire libraries dedicated to the film before the 1940s. Just imagine how much more we might know if this information was not destroyed.
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