Transgender Day of Remembrance
It's the Transgender Day of Remembrance today.
Locals, if you are looking for a way to honor the day, there's an event tonight at 6pm--Trans Monologues, held at A Room of One's Own--and evening of theater, poetry, music and all other kinds of expression, followed by a vigil. It's free and sure to be good.
In honor of the day will take this opportunity to plug a book I really enjoy-- Like Son by Felicia Luna Lemus. The protagonist is a trans man living in NYC, and it's a story about his tempestuous and occasionally luminescent relationship with his girlfriend, his obsession with the mystery of his grandmother who had a scandalous queer affair in hedonistic upper class Mexican society of the 20s, idealized through a photograph, and a story about the joys and dangers of nostalgia. I consider it significant because it is a novel that goes beyond the narrative of transition, exploring a man's life as refracted through his present and his history. It's a beautiful book, and I think it deserves more attention.