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... )

https://laconm.libcal.com/event/8105228

Mesa Public Library, from which I used to check out books when I was a kid, is hosting me to read from GenderQueer: A Story From a Different Closet, lecture for about 20 minutes, and then open it up for questions and discussion.

This will be the first event of its sort to be hosted in Los Alamos, the place ( Read more... )

What does it *mean* to say something is socially constructed or that it gets its meaning from a social context?

When I selected a panel to discuss my book GenderQueer, one of the panelists I picked was Ann Menasche, who at one point said

... I think it's better to challenge directly the hierarchical social construction of gender roles... that put ( Read more... )

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXzNyCf4aI

THE PANELISTS

Esther Lemmens -- Esther is the founder of the Fifty Shades of Gender podcast, where she gets curious about all things gender, sex and sexuality, exploring stories from gender-diverse folks with inclusion, acceptance and respect.

https://www.fiftyshadesofgender.com/

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Ann Menasche -- Ann ( Read more... )

Kramers Bookstore of Washington DC is convening a panel discussion of my March 2020 Book GenderQueer: A Story From a Different Closet, hosted on the Zoom platform, on January 16 at 2 PM Eastern Standard Time.

PANELISTS

Esther Lemmens -- Esther is the founder of the Fifty Shades of Gender podcast, where she gets curious about all things gender, sex ( Read more... )

Last Thursday's author reading, lecture, and Q & A is now available on YouTube.

It was quite well-attended with forty people joining the Zoom session, and I had a good time.

Click to view

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You're secluded in quarantine, and all the performances and events have been cancelled, so it's a good time to read a book!

My book, GenderQueer: A Story From a Different ( Read more... )

https://santafelibrary.org/event/18334/

GENDERQUEER: A STORY FROM A DIFFERENT CLOSET

AUTHOR EVENT WITH ALLAN D. HUNTER

ONLINE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH, 2020, 6 P.M.


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Having given approval to the formatted manuscript and the covers (back and front), I've now effectively switched effort-gears from "getting book published" to "getting people to read the book", even though it hasn't rolled off the Sunstone Books presses yet ( Read more... )

Los Alamos NM is where the first third of my story takes place, covering the critical years of puberty and adolescence when questions of gender and sexual orientation emerge from a person's negotiations towards adult sexual expression ( Read more... )

Last week I made another presentation to gender studies students, this time at Castleton University in Vermont. The hosting professor booked a lecture room -- one of those rooms with bleacher seating and a stage-like area up front for the lecturer -- and brought students from several classes to hear me speak. It was my largest single audience to ( Read more... )