"A Generation X transgender woman, Sherilyn Connelly came out of the closet in 1999. Her own identity still emerging, she had stumbled into a difficult, stifling relationship. Also, her employment at a tech company ceased when the dot-com bubble burst. It was a goth boy from Bolinas that first took her shopping for make-up, and the San Francisco goth scene became her respite. This wickedly eye-opening memoir reveals how Connelly dealt with a toxic partner and found her voice as a woman. A longtime cinephile, it tells how she became a writer, rekindled a love for cult films and horror conventions, and learned "the secret to becoming a star."
In 2014, I interviewed Sherilyn and asked her about what it means to be a transgender writer?
Sherilyn: "In the case of myself, it just means I'm a transgender person who's a writer; not everything I write is about being transgender, and if being transgender has hurt my career, I haven't really noticed it. Indeed, I think it's gotten me into a few non-transgender books I might not have been in otherwise."
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