Here’s the author reading aloud on PBS.

I’ve also been listening to a podcast about them, and it’s so good that I wrote about that too: Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. (It is totally plausible to me, as a teacher, that if you want to learn how to explain something complicated or how to do a compelling, fun podcast you will love this podcast even if you don’t care about the X-Men. But I’m not really in a position to know.)

Oh, and I read artsy non-superhero comics too. I even tried to explain them this summer in Artforum (subscriber login may be required).

Earlier this fall I read every one of those Here’s my appended list, as of September 2014, of the thirty best.

Here (as promised) are all the slides (as a PDF) and most of the reading list, from the Violet Fairy Book to Rachel Pollack and Carla Speed McNeil. Let us know what we should add if we give it again! If you’re having trouble downloading it from this site, try Rachel’s.

(Also, Philly Trans Health is great. It’s only intermittently about literature and culture; it is entirely about how to help trans and genderqueer and gender-variant people lead and repair and improve our lives. If that’s an interest of yours– whether or not you identify as trans* yourself– consider attending in 2015; and if you are reading this page because you were at the conference, don’t forget to check out the trans and genderqueer poets in Troubling the Line.)

I will be reading my own poetry (poems about gender; some brand-new ones, too) along with the novelist Rachel Gold, who will be reading from her cool trans-themed YA novels (either the one that’s out now or the one coming soon.

Later that same day we will be talking about trans* and gender-variant characters– and whole invented societies– in science fiction and fantasy. (If you have suggestions about sf, it’s not too late to send them in; special gift coming your way if you can find the author recently known as Raphael Carter.) See a few of you there?