I like to write semi-personal book reviews. The Rumpus has a great forum for this. The opening to my recent column for The Rumpus is below. Go here to read the whole essay.

“During the writing of my own transgender memoir, I sent in a submission to the anthology, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by S. Bear Bergman and the original gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein.

Despite having a book deal in the transgender genre, I apparently was not a gender-fluid rebel, a gender-variant gunslinger, a hard-as-nails genderqueer. My personal essay was rejected. When I eventually found the book in the store, it was with a slightly bruised ego that I scanned the table of contents looking for a friendly fight. “What do ya got?” I challenged Shawna Virago as I turned to her story, ‘She-Male Rising.’”

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If you find the June issue of Town and Country magazine in your local bookstore and open it, you will find many diamond and perfume advertisements. You will also find, on p. 134, what isn’t quite an article, but an item, written by me. It’s a brief, concise, succinct piece on an organization that leads bicycling and walking tours (luxury vacation style). The participants also raise money for AIDS and breast cancer charities. Check out the link, and see what it looks like when an editor edits my writing. Or better yet, buy the magazine. I did.