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Part-time T-gurl who discovered Angelas Laptop Lounge a number of years ago and found a new means of self-expression giving a long neglected facet of her personality fresh air and sunshine! Enjoys meeting and socializing others exploring their own horizons.
Gina Vizavi reviews Cokie Roberts’ 2004 book, “Founding Mothers The Women Who Raised Our Nation.” The book is a compilation of personal letters between people from the earliest years of our nation. The letters tell the story of women who were considered the property of their husbands and were excluded from participation in higher learning, or government. Roberts ties the letters together with clarifications, context and often times humor. The book opens a window on what it was like to be a woman in those days.
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A college student enrolls in a history course at his local community college. Little does he know that in a short time he will move in with his professor, discover that she is a transsexual, learn of her fascinating history and pass it on to the world in a book about her. Gina Vizavi reviews Babette, The Many Lives, Two Deaths and Double Kidnapping of Dr. Ellsworth.
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Remember when you were just starting to crossdress? Or maybe you’re at the stage now. What you needed was good information on how to achieve the look you desired. Of course there’s the Internet and there are a few books available that tell how to master the various skills necessary. Today we review the newest “how-to” book to join the pile. A follow up to Carollyn Olson’s first how-to book More Tricks of The Trade brings together a number of experts. Read Gina Vizavi’s review.
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Gina Vizavi reviews “Untying the Knot, A Husband and Wife’s Story of Coming Out Together” by David L. Kaufman, M.D. After years of seemingly happy heterosexual marriage David Kaufman had an “epiphany” and comes to feel that he is a gay man. When he comes out to his wife he is surprised to learn that she is also gay. And then, after living as a gay man David discovers something else about himself that brings his story to TGForum.
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Gina Vizavi reviews a book by a TG that details her trip through crossdressing, drinking and debauchery. It’s called My Transvestite Addictions: The Story of One Individual’s Odyssey Through Crossdressing, Alcohol, Escorts, Strippers, Sex and Money. Find out why Gina calls the book “a fascinating read.”
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Girls are treated much differently than boys in the majority of cultures. Whether Iran or America only degree of difference varies. Gina Vizavi reviews a 1994 book called “The Difference, Growing Up Female in America.” She feels the book has insights valuable to TGs.
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We received a review copy of “Confessions of a Transvestite Hooker” from the book’s author Chris Burrows. The hooker whose story is told is Samantha Colton, a TV who enters the world of sex work in the exotic locale of Hong Kong. Samantha tells her story to the author and our Gina Vizavi has sent us this review.
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Gina Vizavi reviews Christine Beatty’s book, “Misery Loves Company.” Christine graduated from college and became a transsexual prostitute in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. “Misery Loves Company” is the story of her journey back from the abyss.
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This reporter’s ears are still ringing from the sounds of Burning House. They literally burned the house down with their Motown/R&B/Disco, and more styles to cap off the Keystone Conference Spring Fling Gala Dinner Saturday night. After a sumptuous repast, Donna Rose gave the Keynote address encouraging those in attendance to be true to themselves […]
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Let me begin by saying I have never remotely contemplated facial feminization surgery (FFS), or any surgery for that matter, and I hope the tonsillectomy I had at age eight is all the surgery I will ever need. Having said that, I found this book to be quite interesting and for anyone who is considering […]
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One of my English teachers encouraged us by saying, “You’ve got to find your voice.†As a writer I’m still working on that, and as a part-time T-gurl, I will probably never find it. It’s hard to find your voice in lots of ways. How many times have you heard about someone who’s as pretty […]
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It happens to us all at one time or another. We’re out and about enfemme and someone will refer to you as “ma’am.” How do you take that? The dictionary defines “madam” as the term you use when you’re speaking to a lady. The English language tends to lose letters and replace them with apostrophes […]
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Are you in need of a new pair of breast forms? They can be pretty expensive so many of us will hold on to them and repair leaky holes with tape for as long as possible. And, these are tough times. It’s not so easy to charge a few hundred dollars worth of breast forms […]
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Our newest TGF contributor Gina Vizavi heard about the Liberty Conference in Philadelphia and decided that she should go to check it out. Since it was her first time at a big event we asked her to do a report on the Conference. Here are her impressions from A Day at Transgender 2009 — The […]
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Our newest TGF contributor Gina Vizavi heard about the Liberty Conference in Philadelphia and decided that she should go to check it out. Since it was her first time at a big event we asked her to do a report on the Conference. Here are her impressions from A Day at Transgender 2009 — The […]
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The Vagina Monologues was written and performed by Eve Ensler in 1996. What began as conversations with her friends about sex, relationships and violence against women evolved into interviews with 200 women on which the “monologues†are based. She wrote the play to “celebrate the vagina.†A host of celebrities have since appeared in The […]
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