A couple of days ago, I was on a marathon phone chat with my mom, who somewhere toward the end of the call thanked me for sending her a copy of the new book and said, “You look great on the cover.”
Yeah. My mom can’t even tell me from Betty.
Betty on All My Children
Betty and six other trans people will be the support group that the MTF character Zarf/Zoe goes to visit on two upcoming episodes of All My Children: March 9th & 12th. The other six were Tommy, Brigit, June, Andy Marra of NCTE, David Harrison, & as the group’s moderator, Jennifer Finney Boylan.
But the interesting thing about the episode is that each of these people are only playing themselves; each of them gets to speak about their own lives & their experience being trans. As far as I know, this is not just trans history in the making, but soap opera history as well.
Do tune in.
Mentions of SNTMIM
- A brief synopsis of SNTMIM in the Gay & Lesbian Times.
- SNTMIM is listed as the 5th of the top 10 things Mara Keisling of NCTE is looking forward to in 2007.
Trans Week @ Yale
I’ll be speaking tomorrow night at Yale, for the fourth annual Trans Issues Week. Do come, if you can. I’ll be reading and talking about female genders viz trans folk. 7PM at the Women’s Center.
Other highlights of the 2007 Trans Issues Week at Yale:
- 2/26: Screening of Beautiful Boxer.
- 2/27: Helen Boyd, Images of Women: Trans Femininity and Feminisms.
- 2/28: Paisley Currah, Fixing Bodies: Tracking Transgender Identities in the Post-9/11 U.S.
- 2/28: Screening of Boy I Am.
- 3/1: Keynote: Imani Henry – Mounting Strategies to Fight Racial, Sexual, and Gender Oppression on Campus
- 3/3: Drag Ball
Save the Date: March 16th
For those in & around the NYC area, please put aside Friday, March 16th: I’ll be having the launch party for She’s Not the Man I Married at KGB Bar, from 7-9PM.
(It’s not absolutely confirmed yet, but looking definite.)
Us On Dr. Keith on YouTube
Here’s the first half of our Dr. Keith appearance, and here’s the second half. Much thanks to Kiss of Athena, who has also put up the whole thing, in one piece, on Google Video.
Dr. Keith?
Well, what’d you think?
Dr. Keith
Well, tomorrow is finally the big day: our episode of the Dr. Keith show airs tomorrow, 2/22. You can find out when it’s on near you by checking the website.
(Thanks to Andee for the screenshot!)
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