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Jennifer Finney Boylan

A Life in Two Genders

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  • ABOUT Jennifer Finney Boylan

    Jennifer Finney Boylan is a professor of English at Colby College and the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College. She is the author of ten books including She's Not There: a Life in Two Genders, which was the first bestselling book by a transgender American. Boylan has appeared on talk shows including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Live with Larry King, and the Today Show. She has also been the subject of documentaries on CBS News' 48 Hours as well as the History Channel.

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Recorded on November 7, 2010.

With her bestselling book She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Jennifer Finney Boylan helped redefine the conversation about being transgendered in the United States. In this program, Boylan talks candidly about being transgender and about the changes in her roles as spouse, parent, and friend as she transitioned from male to female. The author of ten books, Boylan teaches at Colby College in Maine and is distinguished writer-in-residence at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania in 2010. A regular contributor to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and Condé Nast Traveler, she is also a nationally known advocate for civil rights.

This program is presented in partnership with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.

This program is generously supported by the Center on Halsted.

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