I’m now the proud owner of exactly one copy of mine and Hazel’s book: It’s thicker than I thought it would be. I’m not a particularly good photographer so the focus does something interesting and blurs the title. The little figures are glossy and embossed, and the rest is matt. So, only three months until [...]
My first novel, called f2m: the boy within, will be published in February 2010, published by Ford Street publishing. I co-wrote it with Australian author Hazel Edwards, recently nominated for the Astrid Lindgren award. The novel is about an 18 year old punk who transitions to living as male.
I am often asked questions like “When did you become male?” or “When did you know?” The first is easy to answer: in 2003-4 when I went through the transition process. This included testosterone treatment and eventually chest surgery, although I couldn’t afford surgery until 2006. The second is a difficult question to answer. I [...]
David Byrne is so weird! Still weird. He gives a small amount of himself; a slice in every song, and every song is a slice of him. But there seems so much more, a vast storehouse of David to be drawn out for years to come. Wearing white, they were a canvas that the lights [...]
