Elliott DeLine’s Newsletter Issue #7 June 28th, 2013

Philadelphia Trans Health Conference! June 14th and 15th I attended Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference for the first time, selling and signing my books. It was an awesome experience. Thank you to everyone who stopped by my table or bought a book! It was a great trip and I met so many nice people.  

Me, selling my books at the conference.

I didn’t sell as many books as I hoped to at the Philly Trans-Health Conference. We had to leave a day early for our march at Syracuse Pride, and I guess most sales happen on Saturday. I’ve got a lot of books lying around now. As some of you know, I am moving out west to the SF Bay area in two weeks with a few thousand dollars and no job (as of yet). Soooo!

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Quoted in the Philadelphia Gay News: …The event promises to be just as special for the authors as it is for attendees. Elliott DeLine, author of the novella “I Know Very Well How I Got My Name,” responded enthusiastically when asked if he was looking forward to the conference. “This is my first time attending the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference and I’m very excited,” he said. “I’m grateful that Giovanni’s Room has set up this reading at the convention. I can’t imagine a better opportunity to share my writing with other transgender people and allies.” In addition to Thursday evening’s author event, DeLine, a regular blogger for the popular FTM magazine “Original Plumbing,” will be manning his own vendor booth throughout the conference. Novelist DeLine expressed the current situation well when he unequivocally stated: “We need art just like all people need art, and our mental health has suffered from a lack of it. Our experiences are medicalized, memoir-ized, theorized and trivialized, but rarely treated seriously as something artistic. Fiction, and all art for that matter, gives the soul something that pragmatic things cannot, and nourishing the soul is an important part of being healthy.” Read more: PGN-The Philadelphia Gay News. Phila gay news. philly news - Book programs abound at trans conference  

 

.   Central New York Pride/s in Syracuse, NY

6/15/13 — with Will Meader, Blake Chamberlain, Elliott DeLine, Leslie Feinberg Photographer: Minnie Bruce Pratt

Coming Soon July 1: Kirkus Review This Monday I will be the subject of an Artist Feature in the print version of Kirkus Review! I’m not sure where you can find a copy, but I think libraries have them. July 12: Kirkus Review Online Two weeks from today, the Artist Feature will go up on the Kirkus Review website: https://www.kirkusreviews.com July 15 and 22: I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read? Lee Wind is reviewing both my books on the 15th and the 22nd on his queer book review site for teens: http://www.leewind.org  

CNY For Solidarity’s 2nd Annual March Against Racism and Transphobia: a Success! I want to thank everybody who came to our march last Saturday! We had twice the turnout of last year with close to 20 activists. Thank you as well to all those in the crowd who supported us. We marched in the Syracuse Pride Parade to represent CeCe McDonald, Fatima Woods, LaTeisha Green (all trans women of color: CeCe was attacked by neo-nazis and is wrongfully imprisoned in Minnesota and Fatima and LaTeisha are central New Yorkers who were murdered), and all transgender people/queer POC in CNY and elsewhere who are under-represented in our communities. Thank you to Blake Chamberlain and the rest of the crew from Auburn for the wonderful signs and banner! Visit www.facebook.com/CNYForEquality

<3 STOP HATE. FREE CECE. REMEMBER LATEISHA GREEN.