Besides publishing Self-Organizing Men and drawing cartoons for Transgender Cartoon Gallery cartoons, my main gig is as the founder and publisher of Homofactus Press, a global digital micropress. But starting a micropublishing company dedicated to helping trans folks and FtMs feel good about themselves is not nearly as crazy as cartooning.
By far the craziest thing I have done in my life is creating and publishing these cartoons. I can’t draw. In real time I don’t think I’m funny. But as long-post, uber theoretical blogger, I suck some serious wind. So I decided that if I couldn’t say what I needed to say in a business-card sized cartoon, I had no business saying it.
"Better Branding Opportunities" Self-Organizing Men, pg. 11
The second craziest thing I have done in my life is change my gender.
Homofactus Press published its first book in September 2006, Self-Organizing Men to rave reviews. (Yes, this is shameless self-promotion on my part, since I edited the book.) In 2007, we published Eli Clare’s The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, a collection of prose and poetry that spans a 15 year period and is organized not as a memoir but as an exploration of how bodies carry and translate histories and identities. In 2008 we published Scott Turner Schofield’s book Two Truths and a Lie and Cripple Poetics by Neil Marcus and Petra Kuppers. In 2009 we published Visible: A Femmethology, the only 2-volume book dedicated to femme identity. 2010 brought the long-awaited release of Kicked Out. Currently we are seeking submissions for a SOFFA Anthology.
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