Grateful.
Posted by helenboyd – November 28, 2012
http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2012/11/28/how-many-hours/ (http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2012/11/28/how-many-hours/)
I walked away from the event simultaneous thinking two things: (1) I wonder how many hours I have logged talking about trans issues? How many, if I compiled them all? I started my blog in 2003, and My Husband Betty came out in 2004, so that's nearly 10 years of lectures, moderating panels, doing readings, attending conferences, doing trainings and workshops and more recently, teaching classes. There is trans content in every gender studies course I teach. How many parties have I spent explaining trans issues? If I compiled those hours, how many would there be?
And that's just the speaking part of it. If I added the hours I have spent writing about trans issues, in emails, my blogs, press releases, the books (of course), and added in the responses to emails from trans people and their partners, the message boards I host, the online support groups... how many more?
The second thought was: (2) how did this happen?
I can't say I really know.
I can say that I'm very proud of the work I've done.
Not to to detract from her work on our behave, but she also made a tidy profit out her work >:-)