Five Questions With.... Nick Krieger
Posted by helenboyd – August 22, 2011

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Nick Krieger recently published the FTM spectrum narrative Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender and I was very impressed with the book. I'll admit that his bio, on the back of the book, was what reeled me in: "A native of New York, Nick Krieger realized at the age of twenty-one that he'd been born on the wrong coast, a malady he corrected by transitioning to San Francisco." With a sense of humor like that, how could I not read it? Beacon Press published it.

1. You couldn't have chosen a more fitting place for displaying and sometimes explaining other people's gender choices and you show a lot of respect for them. Was this intentional?

One of the many amazing things about living in San Francisco is the diversity. Difference is accepted and celebrated, which allows more space for self-expression. After spending ten years in lesbian and queer communities, I really started to see the myriad ways that people presented and understood their own genders; there was so much room outside the binary gender boxes.