A DONATION HAS been made in the name of the interview subjects of this book to the PEN American Center, the global literary community protecting free expression and celebrating literature. www.pen.org
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND NONPROFITS DEAR TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROJECT INCLUDE:
• Little People of America. LPA is a national nonprofit organization that provides support and information to people of short stature and their families. www.lpaonline.org
• Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. The institute provides leadership that improves adoption laws, policies, and practices through sound research, education, and advocacy. www.adoptioninstitute.org.
• ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network). The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people. ASAN’s supporters include autistic adults and youth, cross-disability advocates, and nonautistic family members, professionals, educators, and friends. ASAN was created to provide support and services to individuals on the autism spectrum while working to educate communities and improve public perceptions of autism. autisticadvocacy.org
• National Center for Transgender Equality. Dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration, and empowerment. www.transequality.org
• GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). For twenty-five years, GLAAD has worked with news, entertainment, and social media to bring culture-changing stories of LGBT people into millions of homes and workplaces every day. www.glaad.org
• The Edward Albee Foundation. The Albee Foundation exists to serve writers, visual artists, and composers from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. www.albeefoundation.org
• The Papillon Center, run by Dr. Christine McGinn, provides transgender care in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. drchristinemcginn.com
FOR INDIVIDUALS SEEKING RESOURCES FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES:
• In addition to the NCTE, readers might investigate www.transparentday.org, a group advocating for the celebration of the lives of parents and children without the stereotypes of gender.
• The Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. srlp.org
• En\gender is the blog run by writer Helen Boyd, author of two smart memoirs about transgender marriage, My Husband Betty and She’s Not the Man I Married; her site also contains a thoughtful community message board. www.myhusbandbetty.com
BOOKS ABOUT TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE:
Whipping Girl: A Transgender Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano. Seal Press. ISBN: 978–1580051545.
Transgender History by Susan Stryker. Seal Press. ISBN: 978–1580052245.
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism—For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978–0787902711.
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. Firebrand Books. ISBN: 978–1563410291.
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green. Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN: 978–0826514578.
ORGANIZATIONS ADVOCATING FOR NONTRADITIONAL FAMILIES:
• PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) promotes the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, their families, and their friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. community.pflag.org
• The Family Equality Council works at all levels of government to advance full social and legal equality on behalf of the approximately one million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families raising two million children. www.familyequality.org
WEBSITES OF AUTHORS PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROJECT:
• Richard Russo: www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/russo/
• Ralph James Savarese: www.ralphsavarese.com
• Trey Ellis: www.treyellis.com
• Augusten Burroughs: www.augusten.com
• Edward Albee: www.albeefoundation.org
• Timothy Kreider: www.thepaincomics.com
• Dr. Christine McGinn: drchristinemcginn.com
• Ann Beattie: authors.simonandschuster.com/Ann-Beattie/1926455
• Susan Minot: www.openroadmedia.com/authors/susan-minot.aspx
• Anna Quindlen: www.annaquindlen.net
JENNY BOYLAN’S WEBSITE is www.jenniferboylan.net and contains a wealth of material, some of it specifically related to this title. Jenny can be contacted at jb@jenniferboylan.net; she attempts to answer all mail, except when things get a little backed up. She can be followed at JennyBoylan on Twitter and as Jennifer Finney Boylan on Facebook.
THE BOYLAN FAMILY maintains two endowments, which are sustained by proceeds from this book and other JFB projects. The Boylan prize in nonfiction at Wesleyan is a small fund supporting undergraduate writers at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. More information is available at www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/prizedetails/boylan.html.
The J. Richard Boylan Scholarship in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University provides major support for undergraduates at JHU in Baltimore, Maryland. www.jhu.edu/∼admis/catalog/misc/scholarships_awards_prizes.pdf.
Sympathetic readers and other supporters of undergraduate education wishing to contribute to these endowments can contact the schools directly at the links listed above, or write to the author at jb@jenniferboylan.net.