Betty and I leave for Colorado today, and yes we’re flying, so don’t expect me to be anything like coherent for the next 12 hours or so.
We’re back on Thursday, but I’ll try to post some things – including my lecture in Denver – while we’re away.
Crossdressing: Erotic Stories Reading
Two months from today, there’s be an event based on Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Crossdressing: Erotic Stories book, which Veronica Vera wrote the forward to & which includes a story by me. I’ll be reading, as will Miss Vera, amongst others.
- Where: LGBT Center, West 13th Street, www.gaycenter.org
- When: Thursday, November 29th, 7PM
Do come! It should be a fun night!
CO Events
Finally, I have all the details on the stuff we’ll be doing in Colorado!
On October 9th, I’ll be speaking at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Where: MSCD Campus, Denver
When: Tuesday, October 9th, 1-3PM
then, in Boulder:
We’ll be part of the TRANSforming Gender 2007 Conference at the University of Colorado @ Boulder. More details about other speakers – including Matt Kailey (author of Just Add Hormones) & Julia Serano (author of Whipping Girl) – can be found on the conference’s website.
Where: Dennis Small Cultural Center, University Memorial Center Rm 457
When: Wednesday, October 10th
I’ll be doing a workshop on Queer Heterosexuals/Emerging Identities from 3:30-4:45
and then will be part of a panel with the other speakers from 5:15-6:30.
Both/all these events are open to the general public, so do come if you can.
Wonky Boards
Our message board are a bit wonky and that may be due to a server upgrade by our hosting company. In the meantime, our own DSL is down so Betty isn’t online.
So please hold tight, folks.
Helen on the Radio Tonight
& I’ve gotten home to Brooklyn in time to rest, eat, bathe, & then head out to be interviewed by Diana Cage on her radio show on Sirius OutQ, at 11PM.
(I promise I will not review the history of modern feminism, which is what I did in class today. Oy, patriarchy!)
Dinner and Conversation
Last night I was taken out to dinner by a partner who is local to where I’m teaching during the week. She told me she was surprised I was willing to go to dinner with someone I’d never met before, & as she was saying it, I thought, ‘If only I had a trust fund, I wouldn’t do anything but meet with partners and give them someone to talk to.’
Because her story was like so many stories of partners: her trans person didn’t like to talk about it, only one friend knew who even kind of understood, and everyone else in their lives, she feared, would completely freak out if they knew.
So it is nice to go out and just listen to someone who needs to talk, to validate their experiences in whatever ways I can, & really, more than anything, provide a real flesh & blood person instead of a cold computer screen.
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DO & My Profile
Betty & I are off at that twice-annual conference we go to, & are looking forward to catching up with old friends & enjoying the green.
But in the meantime, a local arts paper called The Brooklyn Rail did a profile of yours truly.
Some things aren’t quite right, and “frilly feminine” is certainly not right – more like “trendy” or “stylish” – but it’s the first type of piece about me like this. I have decided it’s nearly impossible to talk about our past as a couple – when Betty’s identity was still male – and not have a journalist throw in a “he” when talking about our present tense.
Sept. 5th: Trans Partners Group
I have good news, & good news, & bad news.
The good news is that at the last minute, I’ve been invited to teach a Gender Studies class up at Merrimack College this fall.
The other bit of good news is that the Trans Partners Group is meeting at the Center today, September 5th, at 7:30 PM.
The bad news is that I’m teaching on Tuesdays & Thursdays, & so I will be in Boston on Wednesdays when the trans partners group meets.
I have been so enjoying co-facilitating this group & it nearly kills me not to be able to continue. I will be teaching in Wisconsin coming January as well so it seems the August group was the last group I’ll attend until April or May 2008 when I’ll be back to residing in New York fulltime. I will miss the group a lot – both personally & as an advocate for partners.
If any of you who attend the group want to get in touch, you know where I am.
Fourword
Today is this blog’s fourth birthday. Imagine. & You haven’t gotten rid of me yet!