2008 Trans Year in Review
By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
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http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=85289Between the collapse of the economy, California's same sex marriage flip-flops and Obama's election it took a pregnant man to capture mainstream press' attention. But while media outlets around the globe carried that trans story, most of the year's transgender highlights received short shrift. Here's some of what they missed:
ART
Utilizing the antiquated process of stereo card photography, Georgette Freeman's Up From the Depths: Triggered exhibit addressed a thoroughly modern topic—her gender transition. Paintings by Chris Carraher (aka JackaDandy) were displayed at California's Hi-Desert Nature Museum in Yucca Valley, and with the work of other trans artists as part of San Francisco's 2008 Fresh Meat in the Gallery. Cartoonist Madison "Mek" Potts joined forces other trans women artists to serialize the graphic novel, Between the Lines (betweenthelines.sosdg.org).
BOOKS
Last year, Haworth Press established itself as the publisher of trans related nonfiction. In 2008, the Press delivered health care references Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery and Guidelines For Transgender Care. Haworth also published Head Over Heeels: Wives Who Stay With Cross-Dressers and Transsexuals; before financial woes crippled the company. Recently acquired by Taylor & Francis, there's no word yet what the future holds for Haworth's transgender titles.
