Thursday, March 24, 2016

Still At True Colors Conference


After my workshop, I hobnobbed with my peeps, ate a cup of yogurt (banking my calories for dinner) and people-watched.

Things change.

The first time I attended True Colors nine years ago, I did not notice any youths in attendance crossdressing. I wrote "notice" because maybe some passed so well that I did not detect them crossdressing.

This year, I saw countless youths crossdressing, both male-to-female and female-to-male, and they were not shy about it. They were living the dream and enjoying the authenticity of it. I was so happy for them and wished that I could have been there with them in my youth.

Mid-afternoon, I attended Diana's workshop about the history of transgender activism after World War II. It was SRO and very interesting. I knew a some of the history already, but Diana revealed some things that I did not know. You can access an Adobe Acrobat version of her Powerpoint presentation here.

After her workshop, we called it quits and I agreed to meet Diana at a restaurant to break bread.
As I exited the classroom building, one of my earrings fell to the ground and I stepped on it breaking the clasp in the process. Examining the earring, I don't see any way to repair it. The earrings were a pair of vintage retro clip-ons that I bought in an antique store in Stonington; they were my favorites and I will miss wearing them.

Everyone was getting out of Dodge at the same time and I figured that the two-lane to the Interstate would be slow-going. So I decided to use the back door route like I did when I attended UCONN back in the early 1970s. Since I had not used the back door route in over 40 years, I relied on my iPhone Maps app to assist me where my memory failed me.

It worked. Traffic was light and I arrived at the restaurant in 30 minutes. When Diana arrived, we went inside the restaurant and had an excellent dinner.

Diana knows that I need to feed the blog, so she asked me if I wanted her to take my photo. I accepted her offer and the result accompanies this post.

After dinner, we went our separate ways and I was home 35 minutes later.

It was a long and full day and my girdle was killing me by the time I arrived home, but  as usual, I had a wonderful day as a woman.



Source: ShopBop
Wearing Marchesa Notte.


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3 comments:

  1. So sorry for the loss of your earrings, Stana…

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  2. Talking about youth, when I was attending Southern Comfort 15 and more years ago, we had no youth attending. A friend who is on the board for Southern Comfort told me there have been quite a few under 21 attneding lately. I understand Jazz and her family were there this past year.

    Diana talking trans activism after WWII reminds me of a post I put on Facebook the other day. It happened quite a few years ago but, "Polite is, while waiting for a seminar to start, talking to the elderly transgender woman seated next to you. Shock and awe is when you realize you are talking to Virginia Prince."

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    1. Been there, done that. I met her at Fantasia Fair one year in workshop on planning your transition and she was saying that you don't have transition to be a woman.

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