I appeared as a guest lecturer at the Psychology of Gender course at SUNY College at Old Westbury on Monday, reading selections from my various books and articles and stitching them together with introductory bits ( Read more... )

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That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class takes place predominantly in three venues: a facility for homeless people with psychiatric histories located on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital, a SUNY college campus in nearby Nassau County, and, later, a larger SUNY campus farther out on the island ( Read more... )

That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class takes place predominantly in three venues: a facility for homeless people with psychiatric histories located on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital, a SUNY college campus in nearby Nassau County, and, later, a larger SUNY campus farther out on the island ( Read more... )

That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class takes place predominantly in three venues: a facility for homeless people with psychiatric histories located on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital, a SUNY college campus in nearby Nassau County, and, later, a larger SUNY campus farther out on the island ( Read more... )

My publisher requested any final author's edits on my second book, That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class, to be sent in so they can finalize the setup in preparation for rolling it out.

I've been slower and more methodical at this stage than I was with the first book, which had been through a wide variety of shakedown cruises with agents, publishers ( Read more... )

I was invited by my undergrad alma mater (and the place where I got to be a women's studies major!) to read from my book and lecture to the students. Thanks to Dr. Rachel Sult of the Psychology Department for bringing me in!

The class was attentive and I think it went well. I found the students a bit on the shy side, with only one asking a ( Read more... )

I emigrated to New York City in 1984 in hopes of finding my people, other sissy femme males tired of the shit we have to put up with in this patriarchal society, other femme fellows who had had enough of it and had become social activists about it. And to join the feminists, my sisters who had most visibly indicted sexist expectations and gender ( Read more... )

A couple of really nice reviews of GenderQueer were posted this week by book bloggers, with any luck drawing some more attention to my book and luring more people to read it!

"In a world which is still conservative at large and prejudiced for the most part, Derek's story is agonizing despite being inspirational. I say this because it shows us just ( Read more... )

Well, I've finished rewriting it from scratch from the ground up at any rate. It's still a rough draft, and at the same time I didn't just compose it, either.

It existed previously. The raw material text for both GenderQueer and for That Guy in our Women's Studies Class was generated as part of my autobiographical tome that I wrote between 2010 ( Read more... )