14 September 2009

La Beaute Quotidienne et L'Esperance: Edwidge Danticat

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Today I had a very long day, which included some exasperation but ended with joy. It was like being a kid who was forced to eat some food h...
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13 September 2009

I Thought I Was The Only Transgendered Libertarian!

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Ed McGon asked me to post an essay Lew Rockwell rejected because he thought it might be "too advanced" for some readers. The onl...
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12 September 2009

What Are They Seeing?

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More rain today. Still, I took two long walks. The first took me to Roosevelt Island, where there's a post office that's open unt...
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11 September 2009

Post-Op Hair Growth

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Last night, I got home late. And I went to bed late. This meant, of course, that I woke up late. On top of that, stiff winds drove hard rain...
09 September 2009

A Language of Necessity

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Today, in a research writing class I teach, the students were discussing James Baldwin's essay If Black English Isn't A Language, T...
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07 September 2009

Two Months: This Moment

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Two months--already! That's how long it's been since my surgery. I wonder whether time goes faster for women after they give birth....
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06 September 2009

Justifying the Ways of Trannies to...

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If I remember correctly, in the introduction to Book I, John Milton says that his purpose in writing Paradise Lost was to "justify the ...
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05 September 2009

Mrs. Dalloway? Clarissa Vaughn? Myself In An Inverse Mirror?

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Have you ever seen yourself in an inverse mirror? Or a photograph negative of yourself? Or, simply, what you would be in an alternative, i...
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03 September 2009

Finding Mentors and Being One

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This afternoon, before I went to work, I had my third appointment with Dr. Jennifer. It has been not quite two months since my surgery, and...
02 September 2009

Another New Beginning

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So I've taught three days in my new life. Each one has ended the same way: I've been exhausted! At least my fatigue has nothing to...
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30 August 2009

Tomorrow, The First Day

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Tomorrow I will teach my very first classes in my new life. Somehow I get the feeling I will be more conscious than anyone else of that fact...
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29 August 2009

Another Meeting 30 Years Later

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Tonight I had dinner with someone I haven't seen in about 35, or maybe even 40, years. Rocky is the son of Aunt Madeline, with whom my...
27 August 2009

The Secret of A Luddite Tranny

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I've just been outed.... No, I'm not talking about an incident at school. Or an article about my dim, dark, secret, sultry life. (...
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26 August 2009

My First Day Back

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Today was my first day back at the college. I don't teach until Monday; today my department had staff development meetings. Plus, a co...
25 August 2009

Anxious About My Return

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Tomorrow I go back to school. I am feeling nervous about it, although everyone says I shouldn't. It's not as if I'm going to d...
24 August 2009

Plus La Meme Chose, Plus Ca Change

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Tonight I got off the N train at Broadway in Astoria. I figured that I had some time to wait until the bus arrived, so I stopped in Parisi ...
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22 August 2009

A New Mystery

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Early this evening I went out for a walk. I followed 34th Avenue, which intersects the street on which I live, to 21st Street, which is one...