Reviews for my second book, That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class, continue to come in at a slow trickle. I missed this one when it first came out in January, and discovered it while doing a vanity search on Google just the other day.

Margaret Adelle provided a review in both video and written (Goodreads) form ( Read more... )

I haven't had any book reviews of my books show up in quite some time, so I was pleased to get a notification that Amanja Reads Too Much, a book blogger with a long pending stack of books to read, had gotten to That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class and her review was now up.

February 2, 2023 ( Read more... )

That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class, which became available in February, (ebook versions became available in April) has started to bring in some reviews ( 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... )

Here's a snippet from That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class --

Queenie’s perspective seemed to be mostly formed around belonging to an already-existing category that people knew about, while mine on the other hand was all wrapped up in theory, describing myself as belonging to a hypothetical group that I then had to describe ( 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... )

"All I've taken away from your long-winded blatherings is that you are a straight, cisgender male that has feminine qualities", says Thomas. "Why can't you just embrace that, instead of needing a special word and claiming it's your identity? As far as I can tell, all this makes you... a straight cis male. You're like the male equivalent of a ( Read more... )

My radical feminist colleagues sometimes wonder why, since I'm claiming to be one of them, I use so much of the rhetoric of the gender activists, especially laying claim to a gender other than "man" for myself.

It's not how they are doing feminism. They reject a bucketload of gendered assumptions, roles, stereotypes, etc that are projected onto ( Read more... )