Transwoman Times

From Justine Valinotti: the life of a transwoman.

I began this blog on 7 July 2008 to recount some of my thoughts, feelings and actions, as well as medical events, of the year leading up to my GRS/SRS.

On 7 July 2009, Dr. Marci Bowers very successfully performed my surgery.

In the early days of my recovery, I decided to continue this blog to describe what I experience and learn as I begin to live as a "new woman."

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21 January 2014

Jay's House

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Lately, I’ve been listening quite a bit to WBAI, the Pacifica Radio station here in New York. I have gone through periods of my life whe...

20 October 2012

Paris Is Burning: A Document Of The Lost Generation Of Trans People

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I saw Paris Is Burning not long after it was released in 1990. I was very deeply in the closet then. So, perhaps, it wouldn't surpri...

31 March 2012

For Alexis Rivera

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Just before I started my transition, I attended the wake and funeral of Sylvia Rivera. (I can't believe a decade has passed since then!...

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15 November 2010

Jay and Janine

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Perhaps it's not a coincidence--at least for me, anyway--that Janine died during the workshop I co-led at the Graduate Center on Friday....

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Justine Valinotti: Here I've come.

A journey that neither I nor anyone else could have foreseen has brought me here today.

You can follow this journey on my blogs: "Mid-Life Cycling" and "Transwoman Times." I am also serializing a book on another blog, "Memories and Those Who Stayed."

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