Self-Organizing Men – “A Watershed Year for Trans Rights”
By Jay | December 30, 2006
File this one under awe.some.
Following on the footsteps of a watershed year, 2006 saw increased visibility and political gains for the U.S. trans community. Here are some examples:
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14. (Snip) Work by trans writers could also be found in numerous anthologies, including The Full Spectrum (edited by David Levithan and Billy Merrell), Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (edited by Mattilda, a.k.a Matt Bernstein Sycamore) and Self-Organizing Men (the first book from editor Jay Sennett’s new trans publishing company Homofactus Press)
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Jordy Jones
By Jay | December 26, 2006
Jordy Jones is a great thinker and wonderful human being. Every interaction with him, be it by email or in some other venue, leaves me feeling really much better about myself and the world. He is a very grounded person. His conversation with Doran George in Self-Organizing Men is equally as rewarding.
Check out a wonderful interview with him here. My favorite quote:
Asked if there is anything he’d like to tell the younger generation of trans kids and genderqueers, Jones replies, “Nothing they can’t read in Hamlet: ‘To thine own self be true.’ It’s not a permission slip for self-involvement, but rather an exhortation to personal self-knowledge, responsibility, and acknowledgment of agency and the need for mutual respect.”
(cross-posted at Homofactus Press)
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Big Problem
By Jay | December 20, 2006
Eli VandenBerg writes about size and how transitioning has changed his perception of himself. The print above is found in Self-Organizing Men.
One of the human aspects of living that Eli V.’s work captures with extraordinary tenderness is the sometimes enormous gap between what we think of ourselves as opposed to what we see in the mirror.
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