Whew! What a weekend. The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference was amazingly wonderful, and am sad that I’ll have to wait a whole year for the next one. It’s one of the rare moments in the year where I find myself among more trans people than cis (non-trans) people, which is a chance to remember what it feels like to be automatically understood and accepted by people I don’t know. The conference offered far more than just that feeling, of course.
For example, S. Bear Bergman, one of my favorite queer authors and performers, was there hosting a few nifty workshops about trans sex and how to make things such as condoms for pre-op transguy parts out of disposable gloves (like Bear said, necessity is the parent of invention!). I was delighted that he swapped one of his trans-friendly children’s books Backwards Day with my comic.
I distributed copies of the What’s Normal Anyway minicomic to Philadelphia’s Wooden Shoe Books and Giovanni’s Room, so now you can pick them up there if you would like to look at comics on paper instead of a screen!
I want to thank those who met me at this weekend’s conference and shared with me how they appreciate What’s Normal Anyway. It means so much to hear what you think, and it made my weekend even happier. Thank you thank you thank you!
Hey! Did you have a table or anything at the PTHC? I was expecting you to/hoping you would because I wanted to buy a book-thing of these comics, but I didn’t see you…. so I’m assuming that you didn’t have one……. Is there any other way that I could get the book-thing if I don’t think that there’s ANYWHERE near me that sells them?
Hello! No, I did not have a table at the conference but I will try to get one next year to avoid the very problem you mentioned. I’m still in the beginning stages of this whole comics-distribution business, but I can certainly get you a comic! Simply email me at morgan.boecher [at] gmail [dot] com with your mailing address and I’ll let you know how much it will be including shipping. The price of the comic itself is $5. This summer is supposed to be when I make an online store, but you probably don’t want to wait as long as it will take me to sort all of that out. In any case, thanks so much for your interest in WNA. I’m sorry I missed you this weekend!
Mel’s tag is sticking up again :P