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I'm occasionally drawing Out of phase tomboy, a revisionist comic view of my life. (lisalees.com/oopt)
A Queer Turn of Events, the third of my Queer Circle novels, is online at WizzyWig.net as an illustrated novel (episode 0) and webcomic (episode 1, 2, 3).
My entry was selected as the first 15 Minutes of Creator Fame in the Lulu.com online newsletter, August 2006.
A Queer Circle of Friends, romance novel, June 2006, ISBN 978-1-4116-8577-2, Lulu.com.
Letter to the editor, "Gender identity not included in policies," The State News, 22 March 2005.
"Gender Identity Theft: how the Real ID Act will make transgender people disappear," other magazine, Issue 9, March 2006.
Fool for Love, young adult novel, September 2005, ISBN 1-4116-4268-6, Lulu.com.
Fragments of Gender, book of essays and short fiction, July 2005, ISBN 1-4116-3711-9, Lulu.com.
"The Real ID Act of 2005," on the ISNA web site, 3 June 2005.
Letter to the editor, "Gender identity clause not enough," The State News, 12 January 2004.
"Titanium Oxide," Q-News, Issue 24, Fall 2003; the guide to queer life issue.
Letter to the editor, "Benefits need to include students," The State News, 20 March 2003.
Chapter in Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones, second edition, Mary Boenke, Editor, February 2003, ISBN 0-615-12307-4. www.aiyiyi.com/transbook.
Letter to the editor, "Hate doesn't belong on newspaper page," The State News, 11 March 2002.
I was interviewed for the cover article, "Coming to terms with being gender queer," in the 20 February 2002 issue of the Lansing City Pulse.
Letter to the editor, "Transgender clause needed for U' staff," The State News, 6 February 2002.
A letter about violence in schools, Mid-Michigan Mensa newsletter Head-Line, May 2001.
Letter to the editor, "Sexual orientation shouldn't matter," The State News, 24 April 2001.
"Gender Diversity Should Begin At Home," Moving Forward, Vol. 8, No. 4, Sping 2001. MSU GLFSA Newsletter.
My 1995 essay, "The Transgender Spectrum," appears in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Anti-Semitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, and Classism. Maurianne Adams, et al (Editors). September 2000, Routledge, ISBN 0-4159-2634-3.
"Proud to Be... Me," Q-News, Issue Nineteen, April 1999. Take your labels and shove them!
"Gender Perception," Q-News, Issue Eighteen, March 1999. It's all in the mind, don't you know?
"Who Art Thou, Romeo?," Q-News, Issue Seventeen, February 1999. Littleton v. Prange.
"Concentrating on school violence ignores issue," opinion column in The State News at Michigan State University, 18 November 1999.
"I'm Not Dead Yet!," Q-News, Issue Sixteen, November 1999. Transexual angst.
"Sexual orientation polarizes Christian group," opinion column in The State News at Michigan State University, 21 October 1999. (I wanted a sidebar with the ground rules to be included.)
"Identity Island," Q-News, Issue Fifteen, October 1999. MWMF and Camp Trans.
"Two sexes: too few to encompass all humanity," opinion column in The State News at Michigan State University, 23 September 1999.
"A Call To Arms," Q-News, Issue Fourteen, August 1999. "Strike a blow for freedom! Talk about sexuality today!"
"Gay People's Lives Belie Freedom Tag," point of view in the Lansing State Journal, 30 June 1999.
"The Private Life of a Public Freak," Q-News, Issue Nine, October 1998.
"What is Transgender?," Q-News, Issue Eight, August 1998.
"Transgender Students on Our Campuses," chapter in Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators. Ronni L. Sanlo, editor. 1998. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-30227-8.
"Doing Away With Gender," in at least Unapologetic: The Journal of Irresponsible Gender, Chicago, summer 1998.
Note on "Transgender Violence" for the Same Sex Relationship Violence newsletter of the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Same Sex Relationship Violence Task Force. Volume 1, Issue 2, March 1998. Janice Miller, editor. Council Against Domestic Assault, Box 14149, Lansing MI 48901.
"Two" and "Uncertain Territory" (poetry), Q-News, Issue Five, February 1998.
"Coming Out As Something Else," Q-News, Issue Three, October 1997.
"MSU Transgender Support Group," Q-News, Issue One, August 1997. (Michigan State University's Newsletter for Lesbian, Bi, Gay, and Transgender Students.)
I wrote and typeset the 'queer' GLFSA ad used in the 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 A Year in Review [of LBGT issues in] The State News, distributed at the LBGT student resource fair at the beginning of the school year.
"Columnist Shows Heterosexual Bias," letter to the The State News, 21 July 1997.
Perspective piece on transgender and transgender inclusion, published in the June 1997 Pride issue of Between The Lines.
Letter about sex and gender, published in New Moon Network, May/June issue, 1997, page 3.
Letter to the editor about Pride Week, The State News, 19 March 1997.
"Article made fun of transgendered people," letter to the editor, The State News, 10 January 1997.
During the first half of 1997 I wrote a series of twelve "Transgender Talk" columns for Clique Magazine, published in New York.
"Senate votes will not be end of legislation," letter to the editor about DOMA, The State News, 12 September 1996.
"Ethernet to Your Home," Sys Admin, Vol. 5, No. 10, Oct 1996, pp. 53-56. (My experience with putting my home Linux system on the Internet.)
"Transgendered 'U' Employee Raises Awareness of Identity," interview given to The State News, 5 April 1996, written by Heather Johnson.
"The Denotation of Gender," letter to the editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 March 1996, page B4.
Letter to the editor about domestic partner benefits, The State News, 8 December 1995.
Letter to the editor in response to O'Malley's 18 August column, The State News, 28 August 1995.
"Unfamiliar File Objects," Sys Admin, Vol. 4, No. 4, Jul/Aug 1995, pp. 24-36. (Odd little ins and outs about objects in the Unix System V filesystem.)
"Printing: BSD or System V," Sys Admin, Vol. 4, No. 2, Mar/Apr 1995, pp. 97-112. (Article about the two spoolers, spooling problems in general, and how to retrofit the BSD spooler to Solaris.)
"Signals and Scripts," Sys Admin, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1995, pp. 33-46. (Tutorial article on signal handling with the Bourne shell, C shell, and perl.)
"Sharing Local Software on a Network," Sys Admin, Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1994, pp. 48-69. (About and including the perl script we use to maintain the /opt tree on our systems.)
"A Host Health Probe," Sys Admin, Vol. 3, No. 2, March/April 1994, pp. 17-30. (About and including the perl script we use to keep an eye on our systems.)
"Alignment: A New View of the Nine Philosophies," Dragon, Vol. 6, No. 10, April 1982, pp. 72-4. (Analysis of the moral system in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game.)
"Reaction From The Trenches," ACM SIGDOC Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 2, March 1981. (Notes on the current state of technical writing education.)
"Heath H-8 System," Creative Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1978, pp. 38-40. (We review a preproduction copy of the newest hobby computer based on the Intel 8080 processor, with video terminal and paper tape reader/punch. Oooh!)
"Programming Techniques: File Structures (Part 2)," Creative Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1978, pp. 24-5.
"An Undergraduate Systems Programming Laboratory," ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 12, No. 4, September 1980, pp. 16-19. (A description of my Systems Programming Laboratory at UM-Flint.)
"Topics in Logic: Turing Machines," Creative Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1978, pp. 44-6.
"Programming Techniques: File Structures (Part 1)," Creative Computing, Vol. 3, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1977, pp. 28-9.
"Topics in Logic: Formal Grammars," Creative Computing, Vol. 3, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1977, pp. 107-8.
"Topics in Logic: Computer Languages," Creative Computing, Vol. 3, No. 5, Sep-Oct 1977, pp. 112-3.
"The World in Your Own Notebook," Creative Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, May-Jun 1977, pp. 54-6. (The Xerox PARC Dynabook.)
"A Return to Freedom and Dignity," Creative Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6, Sep-Oct 1976, pp. 83-4. (A review of Computer Power and Human Reason, by Joseph Weizenbaum.)
"The Madness Known as Programming Contests," Creative Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6, Sep-Oct 1976, pp. 42-3. (My experiences participating in, running, and judging contests.)
"How We Spent Our Summer Vacation," Creative Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6, Sep-Oct 1976, pp. 22-5. (An inside view of the 1976 National Computer Conference, where those pesky microcomputer folks in T-shirts actually had some floor space.)
"An Esoteric Ethical Excursion," Creative Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, Mar-Apr 1976, pp. 32-3. ("Does humankind have the right to create a race of slaves? For make no mistake–if it is merely a question of technological development–we can do it.")
"An Ear on the Universe," Creative Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, Mar-Apr 1976, pp. 52-5. (The Arecibo radio telescope and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.)
"Some Thoughts," People's Computer Company, Vol. 4, No. 5, March 1976, pp. 25-6. (The beginning of a months long dialog in the letters column concerning ethics and computers. Also printed in the Sep-Oct 1976 issue of Creative Computing.)
I wrote many other articles, notes, and reviews for Creative Computing and People's Computer Company in the golden years of 4k memory, front panels and paper tape. I was one of the upstarts wearing a T-shirt and selling magazines under the table at the 1976 National Computer Conference in New York City. (This was back when computer people all wore ties and chanted, "I B M, U B M, we all B M, for I B M.") The first personal computer I owned was a Heathkit H-11 system, on which I ran HT-11, FORTRAN and the UCSD p-System.
Most of my early writing is mercifully lost in the haze of time. I was a high school paper and yearbook photographer. My brother and I published Tulsa Crude, a very tame underground paper, at Edison and Memorial High Schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma (we silk-screened the paper at home, even the text). I wrote lots of poetry and political and environmental essays in high school and college. That all was from about 1967–1974. Then I switched to writing mostly about computer related topics for a couple of decades.
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