I am reading tomorrow at LitCrawl!

Under the Sheets: Erotica Writers Heat Things Up

Saturday, October 13, 6--6:45 pm
At Good Vibrations (18 and over), 603 Valencia Street

Charlie Anders, Jen Cross, Gina de Vries, Marlo Gayle, Lori Selke, and Simon
Sheppard -- Carol Queen MCs

About LitCrawl: More than 200 authors appear in a three-hour literary crawl through
the heart of the Mission District. Three phases, each starting at the top of the
hour, will carry you through our version of the traditional pub crawl, from bars and
cafes to galleries, laundromats, and even a few bookstores. All Lit Crawl events are
free; see specific venues for age restrictions. See
http://www.litquake.org/the-festival/lit-crawl for the full schedule.

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Gosh, you guys can be so shy sometimes!

State of My Gender, Revisited: The Mix And Match Edition

Not only are you all shy, you are all also so respectful! I promise, I am not going to be offended by any way you choose to describe my gender. In fact, I am mostly over it at this stage in my life. I make up answers whenever anybody asks me. I invent new genders on the spot. Why not? You all have that freedom, too. I grant you permission to describe my gender any way that makes sense to you, and I will continue to call myself anything that I feel like, and express my gender or genders any darn way it occurs to me to do so at the moment.

So, here is the answer I promised:

Right now, my gender is "mix and match." "Mannish woman" will also do. "Genderfucked" is fine as well. "Gender euphoric" is charming me at the moment but may seem to cutesy tomorrow. "Butch" is always OK but also always feels incomplete. And so on, and so forth.

What all this means: I definitely see myself (and, I think, anybody who knows me can also see this pretty quickly) as a chopped salad (not a blend) of gender attributes, listing toward the masculine more than most folks born with my sort of body tend to, but only up to a certain point -- I would be a very feminine man, you see, had things gone another way. I would be a shy nerdy bookwormy sort regardless.

Also, I like gender as a playground, and I like making up games to play on it. So "gender playful" might work, too.