Sexuality

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure to join Lori, Bruce, and Bryan at Fort Wayne Pride. For those of you who don't remember last Saturday, let me jog your memory by letting you know that second I stepped out of the car in Fort Wayne my glasses instantly fogged up (never a good sign).

Despite the intense heat, Fort Wayne Pride turned out to be quite an enjoyable and worthwhile experience. Cianan and Neil met us in Fort Wayne adding to our INTRAA contingent. Not being an INTRAA board member or officer my experience at Fort Wayne Pride was a little different that of Lori,Bruce and Bryan. It became pretty evident that this was no social outing - this was WORK!

I decided to try something new and do a biography of one of my friends. Who has been partnered with a transman for over five years and dated transmen prior to her current partner. So much of the literature around transfolks ignore the experiences and understandings their partners bring to the conversation and the community. So I wanted to focus on her experiences and her identity instead of her partners. When I presented my proposal as an interpretive biography it was well received.

However, instead of focusing on my research design and any methodological issues the questions all dealt with trans 101 type information and especially how someone could end up in a relationship with a trans person.