NCTE’s 52 Things You Can Do for Transgender Equality:
#3 Attend an anti-racism training and put into practice what you learn.
Raising the Bar
I just caught a brief, red carpet interview with Johnny Depp as he was arriving at the Golden Globe Awards: it turns out he discovered the voice of Willy Wonka while playing Barbies with his daughter.
Ah, Johnny Depp. Raising the bar for men everywhere. No really, I’m beginning to think he is actually perfect.
TIC Update
The Translating Identity Conference, or TIC for short, was one of the best events Betty & I attended last year – so we’re going back!
It’ll be two days this year, February 25 & 26, which is Saturday & Sunday. The conference is free. FREE. The organizers rock.
I’ll be doing two workshops, and co-hosting a third with another partner.
- “Trans Sex and Identity” has been scheduled for Saturday afternoon 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM.
- “Partners of MTFs” (for partners only) is scheduled for Saturday at 3:15-4:45 PM.
- “Trans Relationships” (partners of trans, and trans) will be Sunday from 1:45 – 3:15 PM.
On top of everything else, UVM is in Burlington, Vermont, which is one of the most beautiful places ever.
Worst of Both Worlds Season
I know I’m not the only football widow, and I know now – since the publication of My Husband Betty – that I’m not the only ‘worst of both worlds’ widow, either. Oh no. I know there’s Heather, who just sent me a lovely email about her own ‘Betty’ watching the game “in stockings, heels, and a nightie.” But I’d forgotten about playoff season, when there’s more football on than episodes of Law & Order. After yesterday’s screams and howls brought on by the Indiana/Pittsburgh game, Betty decided to try on some clothes a friend gave her while watching today’s game.
It’s like genius-level torture, having a skinny woman in my house trying on new clothes while she watches football and I clean the catboxes.
(She does vaccuum when and where I ask her to, though. I’m trying to figure out how to get her to vaccuum without me asking, next.)
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Missing Email?
For those of you who emailed me at my helenboyd (at) myhusbandbetty (dot) com address in the past week or so, my apologies. Somehow with the hosting move and reconfiguring of everything that email account got temporarily “lost.”
It’s all back up now, but in case you were feeling snubbed… you weren’t.
Two of Her
Cute, big-eyed, sweet little angel Aurora.
And then, her alter-ego:
SF Queer Youth Agree…
… that what JT LeRoy did is inexcusable.
Galley Cat interviewed me, and Jenny Boylan, and Max Valerio about the JT LeRoy brouhaha, too.
At This Rate, We'd Be Better Off With Tammany Hall
What is wrong with the IRS? They froze the refunds of lower-income people – and often with no cause whatsoever.
Because it’s those people making $13K that are really ruining the economy, you know.
Ms. Olson said the I.R.S. devoted vastly more resources to pursing questionable refunds by the poor, which she said cannot involve more than $9 billion, than to a $100 billion problem with unreported incomes from small businesses that deal only in cash, many of which do not even file tax returns.
Every Time
Okay, I confess: this Nextel commercial cracks me up every single time it’s on.
I have a dumb sense of humor (apparently). A friend of mine decided years ago that intelligence and sense of humor are inverse ratios: the smarter the person, the dumber their sense of humor (which says a lot about the pun & joke response threads on the boards).