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What have I been up to?

With only three posts in 2009, it makes sense to begin the re-launch of my blog with a little bit about what I have been doing in the past year. To begin with, in March I became one of COLAGE’s board co-chairs and in October, I became the chair. That has been taking up a big chunk of my time.

Additionally, I’ve been working on getting some of my writing published in the dead tree media and made my way into three books this past year! My essay “Race Relations in the Family” is about my personal experience being a person of color raised by white lesbians and examines larger issues of transracial adoption in the LGB/Queer community and it is in the anthology Who’s Your Daddy: and Other Writings on Queer Parenting. Another essay titled “Donor Mom” is in And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families where I discuss my relationship to my sperm donor growing up as well as my decision to become a donor myself. Finally, “Self Reflection” in Best Lesbian Erotica 2010 poses an interesting story when a young trans woman who identifies as non-op meets a time traveling future version of herself who is post-op. All three, as well as the two other books I’ve been in, are available in a handy dandy amazon.com widget at the bottom of the sidebar. Although I get a minor referral fee when you purchase through the link, I won’t mind at all if you order the books through your local bookstore instead.

I’ve dedicated a huge amount of my time this year to a certain video project some of you may know about which has faced set back after set back. With luck, I hope to wrap things up in the next month or so — in which case I will unveil it here you will all get to hear about the in detail.

Late summer/early fall, I decided to migrate this blog to it’s own domain name and revamp the design. It’s taken quite a bit more technical learning then I had expected, and while I was working on it I decided to stop updating here. However, I also didn’t entirely stop blogging. I’ve recieved a paying writing gig from Eden Fantasy’s online sex magazine, SexIs — you can see they are also paying for an ad on the sidebar of this site. And I continued posting to Bilerico.com. In the coming weeks, I’ll be reposting my articles from Bilerico as well as tid bits from SexIs. And I’ll be challenging myself to have something new up at least once a week, including cross posts for all my future bilerico posts as well as tid bits from any new sexis articles.