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Tessa Fontaine: The TNB Self-Interview
Congrats on publishing your first book, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death Defying Acts. How exciting! It must be wild to walk down the street and have people recognize you and take pictures with...
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The Long Con
A month after the shooting, I held a yard sale. Out with the self-help books, the roller skates, the painting of the fortune-telling cat. Have to make enough money to get out of Orlando. A pink...
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Three Weddings
In the winter of 1992, my sister got married. A year before the wedding, she asked me if I would grow my hair shoulder length for the occasion. At the time, I was twenty years old and just...
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Nineteen Questions with Paul Seward MD, author of Patient Care
Get to know me: I die for books but I live for television. The former is my bff, the latter is my one true love. Give me a meaty, well-written drama with an ensemble cast of Emmy nominees who can...
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Main Street Madness
As I drove further away from downtown, the houses and sidewalks became progressively neglected. Like forgotten memories in an old attic. Like the unloved pages of an old dusty photo album, some...
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Like a Boyfriend
Language needs a few new relationship words. Particularly boyfriend. I’ll allow the issue of boy having a troubled history to speak for itself. Except to add that Black jazz musicians in the 40s...
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Get a Job: Episode One
Here’s the start of the story and it’s a good story and this one is true. Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is from North Carolina and we met on the internet because she went on a book tour with my friend Bud...
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The TNB Self-Interview: Thomas Page McBee
So, you’re trans. Don’t you think the obvious first question is: When did you know you were a boy? Did you always feel “born in the wrong body”? And, while we’re at it, was your family cool with your...
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Get a Job: Episode Two
I still don’t have a job. And Jay Leno collects cars. He has about 150 of them. I know this because I listened to an interview with him yesterday. I don’t even like Jay Leno. But I have a lot of free...
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Get a Job: Episode Three
It’s hard to tell what day it is. Wednesday feels like Monday. Monday feels like Thursday. I drive Ashleigh to work. I take Ashleigh to work. I drop off Ashleigh at work. It’s a two-lane road. The...
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Get a Job: Episode Four
Nothing bad has ever happened to me but it will and I have that to look forward to. Bad things have happened to Ashleigh but those things are not my things to tell. It’s Friday and I pick her up from...
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Fifteen Questions with Vivek Shraya, author of I’m Afraid of Men
Men are so hot right now. Just look at the options; wherever you go, there they are, and the books about them abound. Adding to the essential essay collections that deconstruct what men are and what...
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Sunrise, Florida
The facts are as they are. They are in black and white; they can’t be changed. As a baby, I lived with my mother and father in Sunrise, a suburban city just east of Fort Lauderdale. The romance of the...
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Leah Dieterich: The TNB Self-Interview
Instead of interviewing myself, I thought it might be fitting for my vanished twin to conduct this interview. Take it away, vanished twin. Leah Dieterich’s Vanished Twin: Let’s pretend this is an audio...
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A Pile of Invisible Dust
I saw my mother for her birthday. I was with my aunt, her sister, and we worriedly drove to her care facility because the on-site nurse had called saying that my mother has been complaining about her...
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Get a Job: Episode Five
Long Beach, California. Out on the ocean on a small boat that can only hold twelve of us, we put my grandmother’s ashes in the ocean. Speakers on the boat play music. Cat Stevens, “Don’t Be Shy”. It’s...
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Excerpt of Dragonfly Notes, by Anne Panning
Mother’s Day One of my favorite things to do in Vietnam was shop at the fabric market. Even though I could barely thread a needle, I felt a great connection to my mother when I was surrounded by...
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Anne Panning: The TNB Self-Interview
So, obvious question, but what’s up with the dragonflies? Why dragonflies? Well, I’m not traditionally religious, so after my mom’s death, it was very hard to see any way to connect with her. There was...
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Clementine Ford: The TNB Self-Interview
37 year old me checked in with my past selves, and these are the questions they asked me. This is 28. Do we ever stop sleeping with people who treat us badly? Oh babe, you are in the wasteland right...
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17 Questions with Tanya Marquardt, author of Stray
For the kids reading this, coming of age in the 90s wasn’t for the faint of heart. It was like the 70s but with pushup bras instead of no bras. Nobody watched their language – twelve-year-olds might as...
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