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helenboyd

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

author, smoker, tranny chaser. kind of in that order, even.

My Interests

gender, music, politics, the sims ...

I'd like to meet:

other partners of transfolk, gender activists, musicheads, punkrockers, freaks of all flavors.

Music:

rufus wainwright, mostly - & bands like spoon, garbage, the ants (yes those ants), rasputina, elliott smith, radiohead, 70s & 80s punk/new wave, like the damned & the buzzcocks, the fall...

Movies:

anything buster keaton. raiders of the lost ark.

Television:

house. the soup. mostly pbs.

Books:

these: les miserables (hugo), if on a winter's night a traveler (calvino), the chronicles of narnia (lewis), the USA trilogy (dos passos), gormenghast (peake), too many.in non-fiction, natalie angier's woman, simone debeauvoir's 2nd sex, eb white's essays, lewis lapham's harper's magazine columns.

Heroes:

adam ant, marc almond, flannery o'connor, katherine mansfield, mary wollstonecraft, greta garbo, eugene debs & sly stone. for now.

My Blog

Curve Interview

In Curve magazine's current issue (Vol. 17, 8), there's an interview with me and Julia Serano aptly titled "A Queer Three-way." The interviewer was Curve editor Diane Anderson-Minshall....
Posted by helenboyd on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:15:00 PST

Review of She's Not the Man I Married

A lovely review of She's Not the Man I Married just appeared in a Brooklyn paper called The Indypendent- here's an excerpt from it: "In the end, Boyd writes that despite the obvious discordance, ...
Posted by helenboyd on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:47:00 PST

trans group blog

As I make my way back from Baltimore, I thought I should announce a new pet project I've been working on for the past couple of weeks, and that's to start a group blog about trans issues, with a bunch...
Posted by helenboyd on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:43:00 PST

An Interview with Betty

An interview with Betty by Jake Anderson-Minshall in the SF Bay Times.
Posted by helenboyd on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:28:00 PST

Upcoming!

I wanted to update readers on some of the upcoming stuff I'll be doing in support of She's Not the Man I Married. If you're anywhere near where I'll be, do feel free to say hello. * April 11-14: Ph...
Posted by helenboyd on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:23:00 PST

She's Not the Man I Married Launch Party


Posted by helenboyd on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:24:00 PST

AMC episode of YouTube

Here's the AMC support group scene on YouTube (wherein Betty calls me an oddball).
Posted by helenboyd on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:54:00 PST

Cast Photo of All My Children

top row, left to right: Brigitte, Jenny Boylan, Andy Marra, Eden "Bianca" Riegel, & Betty.Bottom row, left to right: Tommy, Jeffrey "Zarf/Zoe" Carlson, June, & David Harrison.& Here's the GLAAD newscl...
Posted by helenboyd on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

Us on Dr. Keith on YouTube

Part 1 of our Dr. Keith appearancePart 2 of our Dr. Keith appearance
Posted by helenboyd on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

9th Preview of Shes Not the Man I Married

She's Not the Man I Married">Well, we're almost there, folks: the official pub date is just two weeks away, and I know many of you are already reading or have already read She's Not the Man, but for ...
Posted by helenboyd on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:13:00 PST