Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
when we’re up to.
Today, as if to reassure my confidence for the show we’ll be taping tomorrow, both of my books are much higher in their amazon.com rankings than usual, with My Husband Betty clocking in at #10,060 and She’s Not the Man I Married at #12,122.
(They usually float around 40,000 or so.)
It turns out this blog is syndicated on LiveJournal, so if you’re an LJ junkie, you can subscribe & read my posts there.
I have no idea how this happened; I think LJ users can request things get syndicated, but maybe one of you LJ diehards can fill me in.
Today is the Trans Partners Drop-in Group at the LGBT Center, so come! Here’s the info.
Tomorrow is the Trans Partners Drop-in Group at the LGBT Center, so come! Here’s the info.
As if what people have said wasn’t enough to make me delirious already, Leslie Feinberg read She’s Not the Man I Married, and said:
“Between the covers of this book, you’ll hear how love sounds when it’s so honest it bleeds. Trans liberation is more certain to “win” because Helen Boyd’s on the team.” — Leslie Feinberg
Thank you, Leslie. I hope zie’s right.
I will have the extreme pleasure and honor of introducing Leslie Feinberg at the State Museum of New York in Albany, this coming February 3rd.
Betty and I will also be attending IFGE 2007, in Philly, where I’ll be presenting both my Trans Sex & Identity workshop (on Friday) and doing an additional workshop on She’s Not the Man I Married (on Saturday).
& That is in addition to my being the keynote speaker for First Event this year and doing an erotic memoir reading for Rachel Kramer Bussel here in NYC.
More to come, no doubt!
In case anyone’s deluded into thinking all’s well in genderland, someone named Arlene Starr decided to take me to task for my post on the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
She writes:
I must be too sensitive, be that as it may I was totally offended by Helen Boyd’s first line of her blog entry for the 20th. It read;
“Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we honor our dead.â€
We Helen? What gives you the right to stake any claim to this day? This is your husbands day, my day and others like me. Is nothing sacred? Let us remember our dead as only we can do. Try as you might to be one of us you are an outsider and always will be. Once again you have proven how little you really know about “Trans.â€
Charming person, eh? It’s this kind of attitude that makes partners (and family) of trans people feel unwelcome in the trans community. Of course I’m not trans, but if she thinks violence against gender variant folks isn’t my problem, she’s off her rocker. It’s true: I’m never scared for Betty. I’m never worried we’re targeted for violence as a same sex couple because of Betty’s transness. & Of course I’d never find myself needing to protect Betty if some jerk figures out she was born male.
Holy hand grenades, Batman: we’ve got a bitter dimwit on our hands.
& Successfully upgraded. You can thank Betty.
The mHB boards are down temporarily while Betty upgrades the software.
If you can. We haven’t won the lottery (yet).
I’d love it if more of the people who used the boards subscribed. Surely they’re worth $5 / month, no? Cheaper than that crappy movie you don’t need to see, at least, and lasts way longer than 2 hours.