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COMING THIS FALL: A Colored Sissy's Guide To Understanding Everything… A Collection of Commentary, Essays, Personal Narratives, Reads and Rebukes.

I have been writing for 25 years. This includes four staged memoirs.

Because of format and audience, writing for stage and writing for the page demand different styles. Requiring I tweak several works.

I am giving myself two months to get the project up and running another month before the money starts rolling in. In addition to covering living costs during the buildout, your contributions will help cover the Substack setup and copyeditor.

WHAT IS SUBSTACK

Substack is a platform that allows writers to create and distribute newsletters. While offering tools for writers to build a subscriber base, publish content (including text, audio, and video), and earn money through subscriptions.

ABOUT ME

I am a Seattle-based writer, solo-performer, humorist, storyteller, and recipient of a distinguished Artist Trust Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship.

My 2007 Chapbook, Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay and Adopted by White Folks: A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment was described as poignant, chilling and prophetic.

Over the past 20 years I have created four autobiographical solo shows: Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy. Which was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. Which was featured on NPR. Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist and How I Met My Dead Birth Mother.

I have dedicated 18 years to educating and being educated by thousands of people involved with eating disorders. This includes hundreds of student affairs and mental health professionals.

Thousands of transracial families and hundreds of adoption agencies have benefited from my scholarship on child and adolescent identity development of transracially adopted children.

My work on the social, political and historical dimensions of multi-identity construction and intersectionality resulted in teaching fellowships from both Radford and Ohio University.

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