![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve always been a fan of a good book, and to this day I have several shelves full of transgender-themed texts practically spilling out over the floor.Īt that time, one of the newest ones being sold was a thin text by Leslie Feinberg titled “Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue.” It was the third or fourth published work by Feinberg, depending on how you choose to count the even thinner pamphlet of a similar name, “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come,” from about five years prior. ![]() There were breakout sessions throughout the day of transgender issues, big-ticket speakers at the luncheons and even a “vendor room” stocked with everything from breast prosthetics to books. The event was what you’d expect from any convention built around an affinity group. I was still a couple months away from launching the “Remembering Our Dead” project, and looking back, I was also still pretty green when it came to transgender activism. ![]() At the time I was overseeing the jump of the Transgender Community Forum from its days on America Online to a much more restrictive format on the then still very new World Wide Web. I was at the Southern Comfort Conference, a large transgender-themed convention in Atlanta, Georgia. ![]()
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