Monthly Archives: March 2010

Bite me in St. Louis

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 31, 2010

Everybody sing: Scream, scream, scream went the human; Ack Acka-gack went my breath, Rot, rot, rot, went my brainstem, as we started for the Valley of Death. Suck, suck, suck went the vampire; Kerblammo-blasto-wasto went my head, AAAAUGGGHHHHH! AAAAUGGGHHHHH! AAAAUGGGHHHHH! went the humans! As we glided for the Land of the Dead! The night was [...]

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Public Triumph/Private Torment: L.A. Times on the Life and Death of Christine Daniels

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 28, 2010

The L.A. Times posts this piece today about Christine Daniels, the late sportswriter at the paper whose coming-out as trans briefly energized the community, and whose de-transition back to Mike Penner served as an object lesson in the risks of public exposure for trans people. Public Triumph/Private Torment By Christopher Goffard March 27, 2010 In [...]

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Helen Boyd on the T’s with Knives Controversy

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 27, 2010

Some of you know that GLADD has called for a boycott  of the film “Ticked Off Trannies with Knives,” slated for  screening at the Tribecca Film Festival.  It’s meant to be camp, I imagine, but the trailer acknowledges the  real-life murder of a number of trans women, including Angie Zapata.   The  filmmaker is a [...]

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JB at Ursinus College 3/18!

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 17, 2010

hey you all. Hope philadelphians will join me at Ursinus College on Thursday night. Come All Ye.

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Announcing the Falcon Quinn web site

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 16, 2010

Dearly beloved. Please check out the new site for the new book series. The link is www.falconquinn.com. It’s full of delightful stuff which I hope will get you all juiced up for the first book, FALCON QUINN AND THE BLACK MIRROR, coming out on May 11. Monster up!

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Jenny B. at Kendall Square Cinema this Saturday, March 13

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 9, 2010

I’ll be introducing the film PRODIGAL SONS this Saturday night at the Kendall Square Cinema in Boston at 7 PM. After the film I’ll interview one of its subjects, Kimberly Reed, who will also be on hand to talk about the film. Kimberly was the subject of an Oprah Winfrey program last month. The film [...]

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New appearances for 2010…

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 3, 2010

A few dates for 2010 are becoming firmer, including three or four this very month of March. March 4:  Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT appearing in an Anthropology class (not open to public) March 5: Portland, ME: TransForming Wellness Conference, keynote speaker (University of Southern Maine), Payson Hall– 4:30 PM March 13:  Kendall Square Cinema, will [...]

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  • PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of twelve 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 documentaries on CBS News' 48 Hours. and The History Channel. 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; in 2010, she was the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She has also served on the judging committee of the Fulbright Scholars, administered by the U.S. Department of State.

    Her next published book will be STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU: Parenthood in Two Genders, coming from Crown/Random House in 2013, along with an updated, 10th anniversary edition of SHE'S NOT THERE.

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  • Blog Archive

  • The Boylan Family, summer 2010

    DSC_0063 "You hang around our family, you learn all kinds of stuff."

  • Will Forte as Jennifer Finney Boylan on “Saturday Night Live”

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  • Jenny with Barbara Walters, December, 2008

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  • Jenny atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin

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  • Surrounded

    boylanWith President Clinton and Maine's Governor John Baldacci, fall 2006.

  • JFB and Edward Albee

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    Edward had been my teacher at Johns Hopkins in the winter of 1986. He visited Colby in fall, 2007. As we took our leave of each other, he kissed me on both cheeks and said, "We have done well. You and I."

  • Jenny and her teacher, the great John Barth

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    Jack was my professor at JHU when I did my thesis, back in the day. After many years, I can now confidently say I finally understand his definition of plot. Which is, of course, "the perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium."