Drum Roll, Please!

I broke my leg on November 30, 2000, ending up in a non-walking cast with crutches. I lived in the most unsuitable apartment imaginable – up twelve stairs from a parking garage, then a LONG walkway, up six more stairs, then another LONG walkway, then up twelve more stairs to my second-floor apartment.

I didn’t leave my apartment if I could help it. My sister came over weekly to help with my laundry. I had groceries delivered. I was in graduate school at the time, and made the trek down to the parking garage twice a week to go to classes.

I finished my master’s thesis six months early. There was no Netflix or social media to distract me. Television only interested me to a certain degree. What to do??? I know! I’ll write my memoir! By the time my cast was off and I was released to walk again, I’d finished writing my life to date.

That document sat on my hard drive, untouched, unread, for the next 20 years. And then – stuck at home once again, this time in the midst of a pandemic quarantine. What to do??? I know! I’ll write the second half of that memoir!

Thus Work in Progress progressed, and now is published, available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/199892467X Please ask your favorite bookstore to stock my book; if the store is local to me, I’m also happy to do a book reading. Bookstores can order copies through my publisher: admin@transgenderpublishing.ca

As I said in the introduction: “This book presents a deeply personal point of view. I leave it to others to write histories of trans people at a more sociological level. Trans people need to tell our stories to each other, to provide this continuity that has been sadly lacking in previous times. Isolation and feelings of being negatively unique are common among many trans people, in part because this historical continuity has been lacking.”

Okay, now what? Hive mind – what’s my next book about???