Punch-Line Politics
Riki Wilchins's ''one trans show'' takes her from serious to stand-up, but her mission stays the same
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Published on December 10, 2009

http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716

Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar....

Wait, scratch that.

Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new turn -- to comedy. But it's not the sort of routine that might play in the Catskills, circa 1950.

Instead, the D.C.-based Wilchins, who headed the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) through the first decade of the century and was lauded by Time magazine in 2001 as a civic innovator, is playing for laughs politically with her "one trans show," The MANgina Monologues.

Punch-Line Politics
Metro Weekly
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Photography by Todd Franson email
Published on December 10, 2009


http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716


Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar....

Wait, scratch that.

Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new turn -- to comedy. But it's not the sort of routine that might play in the Catskills, circa 1950.

Instead, the D.C.-based Wilchins, who headed the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) through the first decade of the century and was lauded by Time magazine in 2001 as a civic innovator, is playing for laughs politically with her "one trans show," The MANgina Monologues.