On a cheerier note: there are a lot of these lists, too, of the major events of 2009, but I thought I’d do my own. It’s an odd mix of public and private, but so is my life.
- Obama’s inauguration
- misuse of both “fisting” and “tea bagging” by right-wingers
- Law & Order‘s “Transitions” episode, because it was one of the best treatments of transgender lives on television
- I was chosen as a finalist for the AROHO grant
- getting to teach Gender Variance – and specifically introducing a bunch of students to Truman Capote
- Angie Zapata’s murderer was found guilty
- speaking in Milwaukee at the UW Milwaukee campus & at The Tool Shed
- the TransOhio conference, & specifically, getting to halt my talk for a Kiss-In
- domestic partner protection for WI
- turned 40
- watching the revolution in Iran
- Sims 3 came out
- publication of Bear Bergman’s 2nd book The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (I’m a gender geek like that)
- two weddings of four lovely friends
- Caster Semenya gets to keep her gold medal
- passage of gender-inclusive Federal Hate Crimes Act
- Kalamazoo keeps its rights
- Amanda Simpson hired by Obama Administration
- NYS’s new trans rights policy
So, yours? Are there any events you expected me to list that I didn’t?