Farewell, for now!

I will be on indefinite leave from the blog while I work on the comedy act and also complete my next book. Thank you to all of you who followed or posted! — Riki

A Comedy No One Laughs At

I’ve been working on my comedy routine lately. You know, transgender comedy sometimes seems to me like an oxymoron. When I was going through the transition and everything – this was the 1980s! – it was all very serious and grim. Even the doctors were grim. The only kind of humor I had with the 2 other trannies I knew in Cleveland was strictly gallows humor. Everything was going so badly – lovers, family, job, hassles on the street, push-back from the medical establishment – that was the only kind of humor we knew.

How times have changed. And the trans-community is so much larger, the issue so much more visible. For years now, I feel like we’ve been so heads-down in activism and advocacy. And it’s difficult not to take it all seriously when kids are still dying simply because they are gender-different. This is serious stuff. And I’ve been very, very angry about gender discrimination for a long time.