Speeches
Spiritual: Pure Transformation, 1995 Southern Comfort Keynote
The Rainbow Speech: A TG Stump Speech (1994)
The Big Secret: On Empowerment
(1997-1998)
(includes "dream
makers" "You
have no idea how impotent I feel" and The Worst (and Best) Of Power )
Building Bridges: Links with LGBT (1997)
Introductory Essays
| two things to tell you | my suffering is not important (1999) |
| Gender As Advertising 1999 | Gender as Communication (1999) |
| The Challenge Of Transgender Sex & Gender Simplified |
How can we think about transgender? (1999) |
| Five
Minutes on TG Hello From Hell Two Reasons To Be Wary |
Introductory essays on transgender for LGBT Students, Clinical Social Workers & Lesbians (1997) |
| The one thing to know about TG | Introductory Essay for Law Enforcement (1998) |
| The Transgender Employee | Introductory Essay for Employers (1997) |
| Transgender Laissez Faire Shopping As Sacrament Do You Believe In The Market? |
Claiming space for transgender in a market economy (1997) |
| Notes To A Crossdresser Wanted: Woman to Transform Me Guys and Grace |
How do crossdressers find peace? (1996,97) |
| A Parents Briefing Sheet | What can parents say about TG? (1998) |
| What parents say | Parents get scared. (1999) |
| Post-Gender Gender | Can we move beyond gender? (1997) |
| A Seat At The Table | How do we claim a seat at the table? (1998) |
| TG & Recovery: The Slides | A presentation at SCC (1994) |
| It's The Penis | Is it all about that bit of flesh? (1996) |
| Fear & Lingerie: Gonzo IFGE 1994 | Dr. Hunter Thompson at a Tranny Conference |
| TG & Clothing | Why is dressing up so important? (1994) |
| Broken Mirrors | A poem about finding yourself. Performed at IFGE1998 |
| Do Transsexuals Have A Choice? | From 1996 |
| The Whys Of Transgender | The three "Why" questions (1996) |
| Why does gender have to be so hard? | |
| Gender is Gender | masculine and feminine (1994) |
| On Being A Grown Up | the power of acting-out (1996) |
| The Hardest Thing About Being Trans | (1996) |
| Thirdhand Fear | Well, I don't have a problem, but others might, so. . . . |
| The History Question | How much history can you consider? (1996) |
| Explain! Defend! Justify! | Who can demand an explanation? |
| Rush: A Woman | What makes a woman anyway? (1996) |
| Men & Everyone Else | How do men see the world? (1994) |
| Safe Spaces | From Tapestry (1994) |
| Freedom Of Gender Expression | Free expression (1996) |
| Those Heterosexual Gays | TG == Faggot (1994) |
| On Leaving Transgender | Travelers & Tourists (1999) |
| Funeral For A Murdered Tranny | (1999) |
| Responsible Gender | How can we be gender responsible? (1997) |
| Self Loathing | Watch a tranny attack (12/99) |
Going Places
| A Mitzvah In
Woodstock: Rachel Pollack's Bat Mitzvah |
Bringing our gifts back home (1998) |
| Sex Death and
Gender: Kate Bornstein in New Paltz |
A performance about claiming life (1999) |
| List announcement: TransVictim | Ranking Opressions. . . |
| Stealing Babies | What do people fear about queer? (1998) |
| Starting Over -- And Over, And Over, And Over |
Rebirth is messy -- especially for others! (1998) |
| The Bridge From Selfishness | Is it all about us? |
| Queer Kids | Who really gets harassed in school? |
| Without Authority | Can we feel good about authority? |
| Without My Permission | Where are the boundaries of consent? |
| Dyke Failure | (1998) |
Four Trips To Toronto (1998)
Seeing Queerly (1997)
Written as a collumn for my local Gay & Lesbian Center newsletter
Some 1997 Essays
Uniting as Allies includes To Give Our Gifts , "It's All About Me Not You." , Accepting Meaning: "I Don't Get It" vs. Nuance. and A Whore For the Cause
It's the Packaging, Stupid and other notes from Outwrite98
Learning To Lie: A Collection includes Being Called A Liar, The Costs Of Learning To Lie , What We Share, Facing The Responsibility Of Being Queer., Claim & Substantiation and more
Transgender & Partners includes Talking To Partners, The Lean Out and more
The Christmas Collection includes Naked For Christmas , Performing Naked, Both A Memory And A Promise , Claiming The Light, The Drag Queen Who Saved Christmas , Christmas Is For Children and more
New Year, New Commitment, New Life
The Guy In A Dress Line: Why both sides are wrong (Transgender Tapestry, Winter 2000)
Dance Of the Witch: Is Transgender Faith Based Discrimination? (November 1999)
October 99 : notes from my rant, group distinctions, mission from god, guy-in-a-dress (draft)
Halloween 99 : I am a witch
| Odd Day | the quest for contrast | exposure |
| communication frustration | ecstasy and the third gotcha | the failure of the feminine |
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