Shelley Anne Baker has been part of the transsexual and transgender community for six years. Wandering about the California BDSM community, she finally found her stride in making the transition to dresses and high heels. Today, her women’s apparel, and shoes outnumbers her male apparel (that she just has to have for certain occasions, but such is life). She has seriously considered HRT, but now feels life has passed her by on that count. She is a professional writer and experienced corporate brand marketing and public relations consultant. For interview consideration and participation email Shelley Anne at [email protected].
I come in contact with people in various ways. Some at in-person at events. Others it is online. Many folks are referred to me. When I find someone with intriguing qualities, I ask about their interest in being interviewed by me for TGForum. Most, say yes. But for some, it just is not their cup […]
Luna Ray is the founder of Bloom Community, a sex-positive social and dating app. Bloom creates a safer space for queer, kink, ethically non-monogamous, and other alternative communities to connect and build community. She talks with Shelley Anne about Bloom and other activities aimed at getting legal protections for those who are differently gendered, love differently, or engage in different sex practices.
Sara Davis Buechner is one of the most original concert pianists of our time, a musician of “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (The New York Times), with “sovereign command of the keyboard” (Los Angeles Times). She is also an out trans woman. Ms. Buechner recently sat down with Shelley Anne Baker for an interview.
Today Shelley Anne interviews Dina Amberle, a.k.a. Dina Sinatra. Find out how Dina started crossdressing, how that led to writing her Dina’s Diner feature on TGForum, and why she has two last names. Dina tells all to Shelley Anne.
Shelley Anne reached out to Kandi’s Land to request an interview with our contributor Kandi Robbins. Ms. Robbins granted the interview and it is today’s edition of Tell Shelley Anne. Kandi talks about her modeling work, being featured is several movies, and her philosophy of crossdressing.
Vanessa Carr is a New Orleans musician, drag performer, and tireless advocate for the LGBT community. She has been doing her best to charm and dazzle audiences since 2012, in an effort to strive, connect with, and bring a little Vanessa love, joy, and optimism to everyone she meets. She is interviewed by Shelley Anne.
Tory Waltman, along with her partner Stacey Hamilton, two image team professionals closely affiliated with Oklahoma-based HeartlandTG, the largest transgender live music venue in America, started a wonderful program in 2021, they call TransTrunk OKC. Learn more about the couple in this edition of Tell Shelley Anne.
Sabrina “Bria” Symington is a transgender artist from Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada. She is best known for her ongoing web comic series, Life of Bria, as well as her graphic novels, First Year Out, and its sequel, Coming Out Again. Today she is the subject of Tell Shelley Anne.
Fallon Fox is a retired professional Mixed Martial Arts Fighter specializing in the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, wrestling, and Muay Thai. Shelley Anne interviews Fox to find out what she’s doing in retirement. Turns out it’s a lot.
Alice Novic is a crossdresser, psychiatrist, and author. Alice has been out-on-the-town dressing for about for nearly 30 years and has known and worked with many crossdressers and transsexuals. She is the subject of Shelley Anne’s interview today. Alice discusses many things that she has learned over the years.
David de Alba was born and raised in Cuba until his family moved to Chicago in the mid 1960s. A hairdresser who noticed de Alba’s similarity in facial structure to the star Judy Garland made him up to look just like her. Soon David was doing shows at female impersonation clubs singing Garland’s songs, not lip syncing to a record. Read this interview with The Cuban Legend conducted by Shelley Anne Baker.
Shelley Anne interviews the author of a new book titled Trans Right. The “right” of the title is the conservative movement in the U.S. and the author is the trans woman who transitioned and kept her conservative values. Even as she admits that the members of the GOP all hate her and other LGBTQ people. Learn just what conservative principles she stands by and how she reconciles her need to be her true self with the attitude of the majority of conservatives.
Shelley Anne interviews the artist whose graphic novel 1956: Sweet Sweet Little Ramona is serialized on TGForum, Fiona Mallratte. Find out how she got her name, explore her body of work in the alt comics world and get her advice on how to make a career in art.
Shelley Anne interviews Margot Wilson, a Canadian anthropologist who runs a publishing business focused specifically on transgender manuscripts, both fiction and nonfiction. Ms. Wilson is a cisgender ally of the transgender community and is helping to preserve the life stories of aging members of the community, saving their history for others to read and perhaps be inspired.
Felicia Jeen is a 63-year-old transgender woman born and raised in New York City (NYC). Her entire business career was also experienced in the Big Apple. And as you will learn, for Felicia, if you can make it there (NYC), you can make it anywhere. Today she is the subject of Tell Shelley Anne.
Dr. Aaron Devor, PhD, FSSSS, FSTLHE, has been studying and teaching about transgender topics since the early 1980s. He established and holds the world’s first Chair in Transgender Studies; initiated and hosts the international, interdisciplinary Moving Trans History Forward conferences, started the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria and is the subject of today’s Tell Shelley Anne interview.
Kerry Wright is a lovely and diminutive Texas native who describes herself as a classy, intelligent, Gemini and feminine gurl who just wants to be herself. She is the subject of today’s interview by Shelley Anne. Find out about her evolution as a “gurl”, her time as a webcam model and more.
Shelley Anne interviews Mariette Pathy Allen, a photographer, author, activist, film collaborator and world traveler who has spent decades documenting the lives of the many people who fall under the umbrella term transgender. Ms. Allen first met members of the heterosexual crossdressing community in 1978. That led to many photos of that segment of the trans world and led her to explore crossdressing and the differently gendered in other cultures.
Mae Krell is a nonbinary indie singer-songwriter who entered the live music business at 15. They started Tongue Tied Mag, an online publication that features photography, interviews, and anything related to music. As a photographer this is how Mae got started in the music industry. There was young Mae, photographing live music, most notably shooting the Governor’s Ball for Rolling Stone magazine at the age of 17. Shelley Anne interviews Mae in this edition of Tell Shelley Anne.
Shelley Anne Baker interviews Dr. Susan Stryker, educator, author, theorist and founding executive editor of “TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly”. She is an award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s. Currently Dr. Stryker is now at Mills College where she serves as the 2020-22 Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership.
Since 1980, Julia Scotti has been honing her comedy craft in clubs and theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada, performing for the first 20 years as Rick Scotti, and now, after a 10-year hiatus, as Julia Scotti for the second 20. Today she is the subject of this month’s Tell Shelley Anne.
Today Tell Shelley Anne interviews the owner of our sponsor, The Breast Form Store. Oren Perry has been the CEO of a world-wide operation that provides the finest breast forms, and other accessories, needed by the trans community since 2010. How does a polite Canadian businessman come to be one of the largest providers of faux breasts on the planet? Shelley Anne asks that question and more in her interview with The Breast Form Store CEO, Oren Perry.
Our interview expert Shelley Anne talks with transgender event hostess Hannah Olsen about her events in Oklahoma. This year will be the 14th Heartland Transgender Fall Party & Music Festival. The event is set for November. Read on to learn more about Hannah and the Heartland event.
Rev. Yolanda is a singer, songwriter, trans-femme genderqueer performance artist and interfaith minister, originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, ‘The Hit Recording Capital of The World.’ Rev. Yolanda and husband Rev. Glen Ganaway are the founders of the monthly ‘spiritual happening’ Church With A 2 Drink Minimum. Yolanda will soon be releasing her new EP of “ambient kundalini dance rock” titled”YolandaNanda.” She is interviewed today by Shelley Anne about the EP and her life.
Dallas Denny is renowned for her work on advocacy, policy issues, and health practices involving transsexual and transgender people. She has served as adviser to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, The University of Michigan, the Centers for Disease Control, the city of Atlanta, journalists, and filmmakers. Shelly Anne Baker interviews her in the first installment of Tell Shelley Anne.
