Here’s the colby podcast for this week, which interviews Herself about 21 years at Colby College, about the one-woman show, “The Porcupine Woman,” and about all things There from Here. Click on this lovely link to find yourself magically transported to the podcast.
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Jenny Boylan's eleventh book, FALCON QUINN AND THE BLACK MIRROR, will be published by HarperCollins in May 2010.
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PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of ten books, including She's Not There: a Life in Two Genders, and I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted, both published by Random House. A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for civil rights. Jenny has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Live with Larry King, the Today Show, the Barbara Walters Special, NPR's Marketplace and Talk of the Nation; she has also been the subject of a documentary on CBS News' 48 Hours. She is a regular contributor to the op/ed page of the New York Times, and Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Since 1988, she has been Professor of English at Colby College in Maine; starting in 2010, she will also be the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
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- Dream: I find a path to a gorgeous mountaintop. But no one wants to make the journey with me there. Hm.
- New appearances for jb now up at www.jenniferboylan.net, including dates tomorrow at Wesleyan and Friday in Portland, Maine.
- Do you want to go back to where I found you? Unemployed? In Greenland?
- Reading the Patti Smith book: Just Kids. Heartbreaking, literate, doomed, amazing.
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3 Comments
Transgendering… That’s a curious verb.
I know. I kind of hate that verb too. Of course, “gender” is a verb, once in a while, as in, “the bicycle is gendered.” A transitive verb I guess. Still. Awkward.
I like the interview and it is an interesting word, but I prefer transistion(ing), which takes an explanation, “So what are your transistioning from or to?”, and the response, “Myself to myself. Just a different and more authentic presentation.” And so the conversation goes…, until someone says, “Whatever.”
What I don’t understand is why people keeping using the word transgender to describe a post-transistion person when they’re legally recognized as female or male. Other than your genes and some residuals physical features, a post-transistion person isn’t trans-anything. You were and then aren’t. So why keep the label? And yes, I know, I just like poking people about it.