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Bahamas TV – No, TS

Here’s a friendly, though odd and occasionally tense, interview on a local Bahamas TV show with a resident transsexual woman. She does seem to give as good as she gets, & stands up for herself in cool ways, but the interviewers – despite their joking, confusion & homophobia – do pretty okay with it. They seem genuinely astonished that a Bahamanian could be trans.

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4

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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.

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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.

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Cats, Quilting, & Publishing Mysteries

For the aspiring authors out there, an interview with a book contracts insider. Most interesting to me:

While few of us would turn down a big advance if we were lucky enough to get one, but if you’re aiming to be a writer with a lengthy publishing career, starting out small isn’t such a bad thing.

She talks about the value of having an agent, and what to do if you don’t have one when you’re signing.

This optimistic bit is surely good for plenty of as-yet-unpublished authors to hear:

It occurred to me then that if there’s a market for books on cats that quilt while solving crime, there must be room out in the world for my story.

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Chemistry

Guilty confession: I like porn, & always have. So can I, um, recommend some? I don’t watch much, but I just got around to watching some of Tristan Taormino’s Chemistry Volume I, and damn. It’s seven porn stars, in a house, for 36 hours, unscripted. She interviews them throughout, about scenes they did, scenes they want to do… and for anyone who likes porn, it’s a cool “behind the scenes” but with plenty of actual porn, too.

She’s also got some how-to videos out: so far, cunnilingus & anal (of course), but I haven’t watched those yet – maybe after we put in the AC.

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Last Stop: Poughkeepsie

Ironic perhaps that Betty & I should be doing what looks like the last of our “in person” gigs via rental car instead of by train – since there have been times in the past few months that I felt like I lived on the latter. Not that I mind: I really do love trains in nearly an irrational way. It’s something about the sound of a train whistle – all at once so melancholy, so romantic, & so hopeful.

It’s fitting that we should wind down in Poughkeepsie, since the group I’ll be visiting, MHVTA, is one that let me interview them when I was researching My Husband Betty. What I remember best was asking, “What would you want the world to know about crossdressing that they don’t?” and I got a variety of answers that informed my intent when I wrote it.

So thanks to everyone who has let me ask them questions, emailed me with input, and told me their stories.