Sunday, December 11, 2011

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Letters for my Brothers:
Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect

Edited By Megan M. Rohrer, M.Div. & Zander Keig, M.S.

In today's fast paced world, the internet can provide quick answers to

personal questions. But when an individual raised by society to live, breathe

and look at the world with female eyes transitions to male, some of the most

enlightening, helpful and profound advice can only come in retrospect.


Letter for my Brothers, features essays from respected transmen mentors

who share the wisdom they wish they would have known at the beginning of

their journey into manhood.


Featured Contributing Authors
Aaron Raz LinkPatrick M Callahan ‡ Elliott Anthony Brooker ‡
Zander Keig ‡ C.T. Whitley ‡ Raven KalderaTucker LiebermanLyle Blake
Keith Josephson ‡ Evan Anderson ‡ Matt Kailey


Friday, March 4, 2011

Boston reading, Thurs. July 8

Tucker Lieberman, a contributor to Letters for my Brothers, will read briefly from the book at the TranScriptions open mic this Thursday in Boston.

TranScriptions is a transgender-inclusive space for queer-themed creative expression. Maggie Cee of The Femme Show is Thursday's feature performer, and we are also expecting to see Adhamh Roland who is visiting from the West Coast. This is a great place to meet friendly, artsy, activist folk. Feel free to say hello to Tucker and ask him anything about Letters for my Brothers!

The event is Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain (Boston), Mass., 02130. It is near the Stony Brook stop on the Orange Line. $5 to $10 sliding scale. For more information, see the TranScriptions webpage or the optional Facebook RSVP.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Letters for my Brothers Reading Videos

See video from the reading at San Francisco's Lou Sullivan Society by several of the Letters For My Brothers authors.


Zander Keig:


Max Valerio reads Lou Sullivan's letters:


Christopher Bautisa:


Lyle Blake:

Saturday, February 5, 2011

$300 Raised for NCTE

Royalties from the sales of Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect enabled us to send our third royalty check for $100 (for a total of $300) to the National Center for Transgender Equality. %20 of the proceeds for Letters For My Brothers will be contributed to NCTE.

The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people.

By empowering transgender people and our allies to educate and influence policymakers and others, NCTE facilitates a strong and clear voice for transgender equality in our nation's capital and around the country.

Thanks to all who bought books this first month! You have helped us to prove that creativity can make a real difference in the world!

Monday, January 24, 2011

Letters for my Brothers:Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect

Edited By Megan M. Rohrer & Zander Keig
4th Edition

In today's fast paced world, the internet can provide quick answers to personal questions. But when an individual raised by society to live, breathe and look at the world with female eyes transitions to male, some of the most enlightening, helpful and profound advice can only come in retrospect. Letter to my Brothers, features essays from respected transmen mentors who share the wisdom they wish they would have known at the beginning of their journey into manhood. Buy your copy on this website and not only will you receive free shipping, but $5 from each sale will be donated to LYRIC.    
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Featuring Writing By:
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Jamison Green ‡ fAe gibson ‡ Cristopher Bautista ‡
Chase Ryan Joynt ‡ Malcolm Himschoot ‡ Lou Sullivan ‡
Reid Vanderburgh ‡ Aaron H Devor ‡ Aaron Raz Link ‡
Patrick M Callahan ‡ Elliott Anthony Brooker ‡ Zander Keig ‡
C.T. Whitley ‡ Raven Kaldera ‡ Tucker Lieberman ‡
Lyle Blake ‡ Keith Josephson ‡ Evan Anderson ‡ Matt Kailey


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Letters for my Brothers is full of needed wisdom for and from transmen.  It will benefit those who are contemplating transition with uncertainty, and it will comfort those who have long lived in their true gender.  It is an act of generosity and contains a great deal of love.
Andrew Solomon, National Book Award Winner

Letters for My Brothers is one of those books that I agreed to read, but wasn’t really sure I wanted to review. It’s not that I didn’t expect it to be good, or that I felt obligated, or anything negative. Instead, it’s that I didn’t expect to relate to it, and I was concerned that disconnect might be hard to keep out of a review. After all, when you’re going one way on the gender spectrum, it’s almost impossible to fathom anybody wanting to go the other way.
Anonymous

Much to my surprise (and delight), I found that connection early on, and realized that many of the themes and concepts being expressed are universal.  You don’t have to be FTM (female-to-male) to appreciate the struggles and triumphs of the authors here. Heck, you don’t even have to be transgender to appreciate them – we all have at least one significant aspect of our life that we struggle against and worry about, as well as a few secrets that we keep from those we love (as often to protect them as ourselves). On top of all that, the central theme of body image is one of those things that we never really stop thinking about, no matter who we are or how old we get.
Sally Bibrary, Book Review Blogger

[Letters for My Brothers] is the first of its kind, as far as I know, and I think editors Megan Rohrer and Zander Keig have put together something important and necessary. I remember how terrified I was when I was first gathering information about transition, and even when I “officially” started my transition. I think this book will definitely outlast me (there are days when I think the leftovers in my fridge will outlast me, but this book definitely will). And trans people still need books — they represent our shared experiences and are tangible records of our existence.
Matt Kailey, author of the award-winning blog Tranifesto

there’s a lot of wisdom, comfort and inspiration to be found in these pages and any newly transitioning trans-man will want to read them at least once if not more and hopefully will also be inspired to go out and find some real-live brothers to connect with.


There’s wisdom in here, real honesty, feelings that aren’t shared casually.


May these stories serve as a mirror for the men who have gone unrecognized since birth. For there is no greater joy than when the soul finds its own reflection.


Wide-ranging, fearless, and provocative, Letters for My Brothers is an indispensable and instructive collection of perspectives that is unafraid to explore the imperfections, joys, and difficulties of transitioning to male. It is a necessary inclusion in courses both introductory and advanced that are invested in the complexities of transition and in rethinking embodied experience through the epistolary form.
Yetta Howard, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University

For my Sociology of the Body course this past spring 2013, my students read Letters for My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect. This wonderful book not only allowed students to grasp how gender is socially constructed, but exposed them to a topic that most knew little about. By reading the life experiences expressed through the letters, my students were able to see that although people have many differences, we have more similarities. In the end, my students learned that we all struggle with wanting to be accepted, loved and validated. It’s about the human experience.
Michelle Dietert, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University Central Texas


I finally bought Letters for My Brothers yesterday, and haven’t put my kindle down. As someone who is barely scratching the surface of transition right now, I can’t thank you and all of the contributors enough for this blessing of a book.

I found this to be an excellent read. A must for any transman, especially those early in transition or even just questioning. I found myself wanting to send copies to people that I know. I dislike reading books more than once, but this one I will read and reread. It’s like having a big brother on your shelf!

I read your book when things are going wrong for me and I feel like the world is against me. It reminds me that I have brothers out there that are going through the same thing and came out the other side okay. Thanks man.

As Zander’s father, not only am I very proud of his achievements, I enjoyed reading the book very much. Besides each story being interesting, together they have helped me understand Zander’s journey much better. I highly recommend it.