The Inside Edition website is updated, and “Cross Dressing Husbands” made the preview video, even. If you’re not laughing so hard at the Drunk Dial clip, you’ll be able to see a split second of Betty zipping up her boot – which I’m going to take as confirmation that we will be on, as will Shirene and Shayla (who are the couple shown in the video).
None of us have ever dialed drunk, I promise.
What is She Doing?!
I often think the boys think of Aurora as “the orange thing.” Because they know we’re cats, & they’re cats, but she’s just not like any of us. This is them watching her do something odd.
Looks Likely
It’s looking likely that the bit we filmed for Inside Edition will air on Friday’s show, as well. It’s not certain yet, but nearly.
You can check Inside Edition’s website to figure out when you need to be near your TV! Here in NYC it’s on Fox, at noon and again at 1:30 AM.
Shayla & Shirene
When I was researching My Husband Betty, I went to the SPICE conference, and there we met a young, enthusiastic couple named Shalya and Shirene. (Okay, she wasn’t Shayla then, but I can’t remember her original femme name.) But Shirene nodded at everything I nodded at when we were in workshops, and then the four of us – plus the lovely Penny (whose name wasn’t Penny then, either) & Jayme – sat in the hotel lobby and talked about sex the rest of the night!
Shayla & Shirene are going to be on Inside Edition this coming Friday, February 10th. Do watch them; they’re a lovely, articulate, optimistic couple, who are (if I do say so myself) fantastic representatives for the trans community – especially the much-neglected crossdressing set.
^ me, Shayla, and Shirene, at IFGE ’04.
Lisa Jackson Rocks (on Mondays in February)
Lisa Jackson + Girl Friday are playing every Monday in February at Arlene’s Grocery at 8pm, and there’s no cover.
Do go. I’ve told you how good they are. I’ve told you more than once, in fact.
The 3rd Annual Trans Issues Week at Yale
The Third Annual TRANS ISSUES WEEK AT YALE
Feb 20 – 24, 2006
February 20
Kate Bornstein, Author of Gender Outlaw
“Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us”
Monday, February 20th, 8:00 pm
Harkness Hall (WLH), 100 Wall Street, room 309
Sponsored by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale
February 21
The Gendered Body: Body Modification and Transgender Identity
A forum of trans-identified individuals from NYC moderated by author Helen Boyd
Tuesday, February 21st, 7:30 pm
Yale Women’s Center, 198 Elm Street
Sponsored by the Yale Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
February 22
Intersections: Race and Transgender Identity
A panel of young trans-identified individuals discussing their experiences with
race, gender, and sexuality
Wednesday, February 22nd, 4:00 pm
Yale Women’s Center, 198 Elm Street
Sponsored by the Yale Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
February 23
King Me!
A Gender Bending performance and Drag King workshop with Queer Soup
Thursday, February 23rd, 7:30 pm
Dwight Hall Chapel, Old Campus at Yale (High St, between Elm and Chapel)
Cosponsored by the Yale Women’s Center and the Yale LGBT Co-operative
TRANSWEEK is sponsored by the LKI, the WGSS, the Yale Women’s Center, the LGBTQ Co-Op, and QPAC
2/6/06 = #6
NCTE’s 52 Things You Can Do for Transgender Equality:
#6 Plan an Art Show of Works by Trans Artists.
Jacob!
Jacob, where are my pictures? You said you were going to send pictures!
Do. I’m nearly actually dying of curiosity.
(Okay, everyone else: back to your regularly scheduled programming.)
Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
Betty Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure today.
She was the author of the much-heralded The Feminine Mystique.
She was 85. She founded NOW (the National Organization for Women) in 1966.
The Feminine Mystique is still a great book, calling as it did for women to have a life and personality independent of being a wife & mother. Sadly, a lot of what she had to say about women being autonomous is still quite relevant today.
Though there’s a part of me that hopes, somewhere in the universe, Susan B. and Cady Stanton and Wendy Wasserstein and Coretta Scott King and now Betty Friedan are conspiring to get these boys to stop pulling these stupid-ass moves.
Us, Updated
Betty and I went out with Alexandra and Cathy when they came up to NYC last weekend, and someone snapped a photo of us for the event’s website.
How post-Goth of me to wear brown to a goth club, eh? Betty is in guy mode, theoretically speaking.