By a somewhat unusual series of events, I’m going to be teaching a Women’s & Gender Studies class this fall at Merrimack College in N. Andover… Massachusetts. I wasn’t expecting to, which is why I won’t be moving there, which means instead about a six hour commute – that’s one way! – in order to do so. But I couldn’t turn it down, since it would give me the chance to work with the very cool Gordene Mackenzie, of Nancy & Gordene from GenderTalk, as she runs the program there. Since I’m writing again, I’m always pleased to have good writing time – both on the train & during the time I’ll be on campus. I’m very much looking forward to it, and hopefully I’ll get to see some of my friends who live in the Boston area while I’m there.
Up Close & Personal
Today we’ll be interviewed by host Bonnie Graham on WGBB AM (Long Island), on the show Up Close & Personal, at 6PM, for about a half hour.
You can listen online, too, by clicking the ‘Listen Live’ button in the upper right hand corner of the WGBB website.
Denver & Boulder
It’s now safe for me to announce that I’m confirmed to do events in Denver – at the Metropolitan State College of Denver on October 9th – and in Boulder – at the University of Colorado @ Boulder on October 10th.
I’m very pleased to get the chance to visit with people in that area, and hope to get to meet a bunch of you I’ve never met before.
I’ll keep you posted as we work out the details.
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Julia Serano Does New York
We’re back from a lovely couple of days in PA with my family & will get right back into the groove with Julia Serano’s reading tomorrow night at Bluestockings.
She’ll be reading from her book Whipping Girl at 7pm, & of course we’ll be there. If you’ve never been, you can find directions on their website. If you haven’t read her book yet, do, but in the meantime you can read the interview with me & Julia in a recent issue of Curve (which I’m told is not quite on newsstands, but will be soonly). & If you’ve already read that, & can’t make the reading, then go read some of Julia’s writing on her website – I especially recommend her “Barette Manifesto.”
& Yes, I’ll be doing a Five Questions With… interview with her soonly.
But wow is the weather better in the mountains of PA.
Coal Country
Betty & I are spending some time with my family today & Monday; we plan to be back sometime on Tuesday. We’re going to coal country, where my mother’s peeps are from, as it’s my grandaunt’s 85th birthday – yes, she’s my grandaunt Helen, there really is only one page in the Polish baby names book – while my parents are up north for a visit, too. We’ll go revisit some of the places they brought me as a kid, but with my sister’s kids, who’ve grown up going to that region on their summer holidays and tromping around what they call “the bush” (otherwise known as the woods) the same as I did.
It’ll be four generations in two cars, which to me is always a lovely, if complicated, experience.
Since I’ll be in coal country, I’ll be thinking about those trapped Utah miners & their families, of course. This bullshit cowboy mining should be illegal, by the way. I’m sure John L. Lewis is turning in his grave now that they’re even stripping the pillars. Greedy bastards. Please keep in mind, folks, that while trapped miners are always a good “human interest” though tragic news story, we don’t often hear about the accidents that just kill miners outright – not here, or in China, or in India.
Cool for Cats
I woke up today to a cool, windy, rainswept kind of day, with a truckload of cats sleeping with me, one of them (my Aeneas) with his back curved around touching the curve of mine. What a lovely way to wake up.
& Tonight, because Neil Gaiman asked us to, we’re going to see Stardust.
Norwalk
I just wanted to say a quick thank you to Amy and all of the people who helped organize tonight’s meeting in Norwalk, and all the people who came. It was a great meeting, with lots of good questions and conversations. I wanted to thank the folks at the TCC, too, for making a point of having an LGBT Center that really recognizes the T.
Again, thanks to you all. We had a wonderful evening.
Tonight in Norwalk
Just a reminder that at 7PM tonight I’m speaking in Norwalk, at the Triangle Transgender Society, which meets at the Triangle Community Center.
& Yes, I’ll have books.
Triangle Trans
I’ll be speaking at the fledgling Triangle Transgender Society in Norwalk, CT, on August 7th. You don’t have to be a member to attend. I’ll start speaking around 7Pm, & I’ll finish when no one has any more questions.
Do come if you’re in that neck of the woods (or can get there).