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Turn up the volume — the ‘Modern Love’ podcast is here!
So, OK, the podcast reading of my Modern Love essay is out! You can hear it in two places. If you go here you get the transcript and photos. If you go to the original essay, there’s a button halfway … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Family, Friends, Marriage, Media, Out and about, Physical appearance, Public reaction, Romance, Surgery, Transgender, Writing
Tagged Ann Dowd, Handmaid's Tale, Modern Love, Modern Love podcast, podcasts, trans marriage, WBUR
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Many views of transition from partners’ perspectives
I’m so happy to have another resource for “partners of,” the new book “Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge & Resilience,” edited by Jordon Johnson and Becky Garrison, published by Transgress Press. (My Boston Globe piece was … Continue reading
Four years later, and a new country
I was asked to contribute to a collection of essays by and about partners of transgender and other non-conforming people. More on the book when it’s published next year. We decided to use a reprint of my Boston Globe article … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Marriage, Out and about, Politics, Writing
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‘Trans Bodies, Trans Selves,’ a must-own
Over the past few weeks I’ve been thumbing through the behemoth compilation “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community,” planning to write about the recently published book soon. I did see an Associated Press story about it … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Coping, Family, Fashion, Friends, Legal issues, Marriage, Media, Out and about, Physical appearance, Politics, Public reaction, Romance, Surgery, Therapy, Transgender, Work, Writing
Tagged transgender resource
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Our story inspires a song
When I received an email out of the blue from some dude named David Lockwood saying he was a “singer/songwriter” making an album called “Modern Love,” partly inspired by essays in the column of the same name in the New … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Media, Out and about, Writing
Tagged David Lockhart, Kickstarter, Modern Love, New York Times
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Boylan’s new books: celebrating family and a classic
For years I’ve been fielding emails from women with children whose husbands have recently come out as transgender. They don’t see how they can stay intact as a family. I know it’s possible, assuming they want to, but I had … Continue reading
Talk about feeling exposed…
As recently as six months ago, I never, ever would have considered sharing our story in the News & Observer, our regional newspaper. But you can find it here, in today’s paper, with photos, splashed across the front of the … Continue reading
Posted in Marriage, Media, Out and about, Writing
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A little bit about us in Duke Chronicle
Lina and I experienced our first local “outing,” so to speak, in the Duke Chronicle, Duke University’s daily student newspaper. Reporter Anna Koelsch emailed me the other day because she was writing about the Durham Arts Council’s Emerging Artists Grant … Continue reading
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With achievement comes exposure, and new hurdles
I’m honored and excited to have been awarded a 2012 Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council to assist with the memoir I’m writing about Lina and me and our marriage. But I’m also nervous. While the attention from … Continue reading
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What to write for the local paper?
I spent several hours today working on an essay about Lina and me for my regional paper, the News & Observer, in Raleigh, NC, (Sunday) circulation 190,000. A year ago I wouldn’t have dreamed (nightmared) of writing anything this close to … Continue reading
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She Was the Man of My Dreams 