TransMasculine Journeys – A night of readings by Matt Kailey, Max Wolf Valerio, & Cameron Partridge

This Thursday, October 8, there is a very special event happening here in Boston that you are all invited too, it’s called, “TransMasculine Journeys – Finding Our Places in the World – A night of readings by Matt Kailey, Max Wolf Valerio, & Cameron Partridge Reflecting on Lou Sullivan, Michael Dillon and themselves. Discussions to follow. At the end of the evening Matt Kailey and Max Wolf Valerio will sign copies of the their books, Just Add Hormones and The Testosterone Files.

Many of us women-folk don’t really understand the men in our community. We think we do, but, often times our stereotypes cloud our knowing these amazing guys. This night is sure to be extra special and enlightening for everyone who attends. Here’s more of the detail:

Where & When?

• Thursday, October 8, 2009, 7-9pm
• St. Luke’s and St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 5 St. Lukes Road, Allston, MA Corner of Brighton Ave & St. Lukes Road, one block from the Packard’s Corner T-stop The event is free and open to the public. Donations for the speakers will be appreciated.

What about those reading?

• Matt Kailey is a Denver author, speaker, and activist focusing on transgender issues. He is the author of Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience, a Lambda Finalist, the editor of Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices, the National Transgender Issues Examiner for Examiner.com, and the author of the personal blog Tranifesto. He can be reached through his web site at www.mattkailey.com.

• Max Wolf Valerio is a poet and writer, sometime actor, and long transitioned trans man who remembers Lou Sullivan and a time when the FTM Newsletter was one of the only sources of communication for trans men and their allies. The Testosterone Files (Seal Press) is his memoir about his first five years on testosterone. A poet, who has been writing, performing and reading his work for thirty years, Max began transition in 1989. He has appeared in many films and documentaries including the “Max” short in “Female Misbehavior” and “Gendernauts” both by German Director Monika Treut, and in “You Don’t Know Dick – Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men,” “Octopus Alarm,” and “Unhung Heroes” — the FTM comedy and the new “Maggots and Men”.

• Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge is a scholar of religion and gender/sexuality studies and is the vicar of St. Luke’s and St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church. One of his projects is to bring to publication the memoir of Michael Dillon.