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BiblioBitch: Chaz Bono's Book of Mixed Messages

Books post by Deb Jannerson on May 26, 2011 - 11:17am; tagged celebrity culture, Chaz Bono, Cher, memoir, trans identity, trans men.

BiblioBitch logo with "BIBLIO" in purple and "BITCH" in black, next to a little purple cartoon worm with black cats eye glasses reading a purple book

Cover photo of Transition by Chaz Bono. Cover is silver with a big photo of Chaz, a large man with short brown hair wearing a button-down dark blue shirt, smiling. The top of the cover reads "CHAZ BONO with Billie Fitzpatrick", also in dark blue, and the book title, "TRANSITION", appears halfway down the cover, half-silver, half-blue. The subtitle "The Story of How I Became a Man" is just below the title in small white italics. Image via indiebound.

Chaz Bono's new memoir, Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, co-written with Billie Fitzpatrick, brims with candid emotion. It covers his entire life so far, and as the title implies, it frequently comes back to Chaz's lifelong discomfort with being thought to be female and his gradual acceptance of himself as a trans guy. Unfortunately, it's also full of sexist statements about who men and women can be.

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Douchebag decree: a Winter Round-up!

Social Commentary post by Kjerstin Johnson on December 30, 2010 - 4:46pm; tagged immigration, language, rape apologists, rape culture, trans men.

Gather 'round pardners! It's time for a Douchebag round-up! This week we're featuring three women unafraid to rain their misguided, bigoted, and douchey ways down on the world.
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More than Original: a Q & A with the men behind ORIGINAL PLUMBING

Social Commentary post by Kjerstin Johnson on December 22, 2009 - 2:04pm; tagged independent magazines, magazines, media, ORIGINAL PLUMBING, trans identity, trans men, transgender.
Amos Mac and Rocco K smile at the camera. Amos reaches around Rocco's neck to playfully straighten his bow-tie.
Original Plumbing, a new magazine published and distributed out of San Francisco, is a fresh new publication dedicated to FTM sexuality and culture. Made for trans men by trans men, its first issue ("The Bedroom Issue") came out in October and features voices from five rooms and a couple different continents, with content ranging from interviews to fiction to a detailed summary of how Germany's health care system helps transitioning. They're off to a great start, and I asked editor-in-chief/photographer Amos Mac and assistant editor Rocco Kayiatos (who raps as Katastrophe) a few questions about future plans for ORIGINAL PLUMBING.
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