INDEX

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Blog posts, in reverse consecutive order.

2026


In Which ahunter3 decides to interact with an AI 1/2/26



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2025



Considering Matthew Shepard + Some Contemplation 7/24/25



My New Favorite Rejection Letter 6/3/25



Comment from an Editor 1/29/25



Nibble 1/29/25



2024



Coming to Terms With It 12/1/24



Presentation at SUNY / Old Westbury 11/16/24



Speaking Engagement: SUNY / Old Westbury 11/10/24



Self Dissatisfaction 10/23/24



Reprising a Theme: Querying as Fiction 8/25/24



Acquiring 7/29/24



Calling it Something 7/25/24



Within the Box -- First Request for a Full 6/26/24



Status Update -- Querying WITHIN THE BOX 6/16/24



Political Grammar 5/11/24



Coursework: Writing One's Proposal 4/9/24



MetaNostalgia 3/11/24



BOOK REVIEW -- *Detransition, Baby* by Torrey Peters 3/6/24



Of Dolls and Lipstick and High Heels and Skirts and Stuff 2/12/24



My First Psychiatric Incarceration, Told and Retold 2/1/24



Reflection in a Different Mirror 1/24/24



Author Notes, January 2024 1/3/24







2023



REVIEW: Cyrus Dunham's *A YEAR WITHOUT A NAME* — A Nuanced and Eloquent Trans Narrative 12/10/23



Genderqueer Gets Reviewed... by, umm, I think, an AI ?!? 11/29/23



Transgender Lack of Awareness Week 11/16/23



An Expanded / Revamped Scene 10/7/23



Update -- Status of *Within the Box* 9/27/23



Using People for Sex 9/16/23



BOOK REVIEW - Tomboy by Lisa Selin Davis 9/3/23



Dear "Ask the Literary Agent" Columnist: 8/24/23



Left 8/18/23



Positioning 8/9/23



Querying Author's Wish List 8/6/23



My Tendency to Dissent 7/31/23



The Emotional Knife Edge 7/19/23



Best Books List / General Update 7/17/23



Querying 6/30/23



Synopsis of *Within the Box* / Querying has Begun! 6/17/23



Maleness 5/31/23



The Comparable Titles Game 5/21/23



First Draft of Query Letter for *Within the Box* 5/7/23



Homophobia 4/30/23



Polishing and Procrastinating 4/23/23



BOOK REVIEW -- In Silence I Speak, by Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt 4/15/23



BOOK REVIEW -- *The Boy in Makeup* 4/7/23



The Psychiatric Connection 3/28/23



The Advocate [excerpt from WIP *Within the Box*] 3/18/23



An Action Scene (from WITHIN THE BOX) 3/9/23



'A Lack of Self-Awareness' -- *Guy in WS Gets Reviewed* 3/1/23



Differentiation 2/22/23



The Paradox of Male Identity & Bonding 2/10/23



Another Book Review of *Guy in Women's Studies* + Still Seeking Beta Readers 2/4/23



Self Defined 1/23/23



An Open Letter to my Gender Critical Colleagues & Friends 1/16/23







2022



2022 PostMortem on *That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class* & Etc 12/17/22



Audiobook 12/3/22



An Interior Monologue Snippet 11/25/22



Excerpt Snippet: Employment Discrimination 11/16/22



The Coarseness of Our Accommodations 11/7/22



A Little Flashback Sequence 10/28/22



Progress on Book 3 / Scene: Dispute with my Case Worker 10/21/22



Present Tense / Present Intense 10/13/22



Excerpt: Reminiscing about Malcolm 10/6/22



Nursery School via First Grade 9/18/22



Walking the Tightrope 9/13/22



Going on Offense 9/5/22



The Words That We Use 8/28/22



Gender and Its Variants 8/17/22



Author Thoughts / Possible 3rd Book 8/8/22



On Being a Non-Transitioner 7/29/22



BOOK REVIEW -- Black & Bold by Kelvin Mosley 7/23/22



It's All About the Sexuality 7/15/22



Patriarchy 7/6/22



Cultural Appropriation 6/22/22



Plumbing 6/14/22



Being Eight 6/6/22



Separatism, Safe Spaces, and The Other 5/25/22



Reviews Coming in for Guy in Women's Studies 5/17/22



My First Royalty Checks (book one -- GenderQueer) 5/10/22



Abortion Rights 5/3/22



BOOK REVIEW -- In Search of Pure Lust by Lise Weil 4/27/22



SUNY @ Stony Brook: Where the Story Takes Place (Part III) 4/21/22



SUNY @ Old Westbury: Where the Story Takes Place (Part II) 4/13/22



Creedmoor Psychiatric: Where the Story Takes Place (Part I) 4/6/22



Floor Problem 3/26/22



Identity: Joining, or Formulating? 3/19/22



Dear NeuroDiverse Comrade: 3/12/22



Wordle of That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class 3/3/22



Trunk Novel 2/24/22



It's Here! My Second Book is in Print! 2/15/22



Guy in WS: I've Got the Cover! 2/5/22



Identity, Words, and Concepts 1/31/22



Passing Phase 1/25/22



... And Then One Day Their Eyes Met; or, Nice Guys, revisited 1/19/22



A Gender Blogger and Author Takes Stock 1/11/22






2021



Being a Child, and the Politics Thereof 12/28/21



Guy in Women's Studies -- Final Author's Edits sent in 12/14/21



Anatomy and Identity 12/7/21



Dear Feminist Colleagues: How would YOU address it? 11/29/21



Fence 11/21/21



A Short History of Distinguishing Gender from Sex 11/14/21



Author Lecture and Reading at SUNY / Old Westbury 11/6/21



BOOK REVIEW — UNCOMMON SONS by Bruce W. Bishop 11/1/21



Being Out 10/23/21



All Politics is Interactive 10/17/21



Personal Style, Presentation and Flair: Patched Jeans 10/9/21



Author Event — Los Alamos Author Tells a Story From a Different Closet 10/3/21



BOOK REVIEW -- Chameleon: A Memoir by Michael Caputo 9/24/21



Listen to a Different Voice 9/18/21



Kitten Robe II 9/10/21



What It Was Like Coming Out: An Ominous Bus Ride 9/3/21



A Letter to my Socialist Friends and Colleagues 8/27/21



The Amazons' OTHER Brothers: Encounters with Other Male Feminists 8/19/21



Identity and the Passage of Time 8/12/21



Feminist Says Men's Plight Isn't Feminists' Responsibility 8/5/21



What If I'm Wrong? 7/29/21



Unsafe Spaces 7/22/21



BOOK REVIEW: *Across the Green Grass Fields* by Seanan McGuire 7/15/21



A Choice in the Matter 7/8/21



Gender Situation, Compared to Sexual Orientation — and Gaslighting 6/30/21



To Oppose Patriarchy: It's Different For Men 6/23/21



Being Weaponized 6/15/21



Representation 6/8/21



Signalling and Signification 5/29/21



Advertising the Book: Positioning 5/20/21



The Expression of Interest 5/13/21



Mansplaining Gender; or Sissifying Feminism 5/5/21



Feminists as Transgender Activists 4/27/21



My book, *GenderQueer* — One Year in Print! 4/20/21



The Whole "Being Sexy" Thing... 4/14/21



Trappings. Presentation. 4/7/21



Part of the System 3/31/21



Outsider Radical Feminist 3/23/21



Social 3/9/21



BOOK REVIEW: Birdie and Me, J. M. M. Nuanez 2/28/21



On Being Oblivious 2/18/21



TERF Wars: Feminists Against Gender and Transgender Warriors Against TERFs - Conclusion 2/11/21



TERF Wars: Feminists Against Gender and Transgender Warriors Against TERFs 1/31/21



Panel Discussion of GenderQueer! (on YouTube) 1/16/21



Kramers Bookstore Panel Discussion of Hunter's 'GenderQueer' 1/16; Attend via Zoom! 1/10/21



Eleven Pipers Piping — Bleak Midwinter Quiltbag Funfest! 1/3/21




2020



Pivoting 12/26/20



Gendered Expectations 12/16/20



The Tomato Manifesto 12/6/20



A Couple More Reviews 11/29/20



I Presented at Santa Fe Public Library 11/22/20



Author Event with Allan D. Hunter -- Santa Fe Public Library 11/15/20



Sexual Dimorphism and Gender 11/9/20



The Personality as Political 11/1/20



The Future (or Lack Thereof) of Gender 10/24/20



BOOK REVIEW: Ciel, by Sophie Labelle 10/17/20



I Get a Really Nice Interview! FiftyShadesOfGender! 10/11/20



Gender-Critical, Transgender, Gender Inversion, & Transsexuality Conference 10/5/20



Thoughts From a Song: Running Up That Hill 9/28/20



Queer of Gender, Cis of Sex (Guest Post on Ramona Mead's Blog) 9/18/20



Review / Interview in QueerPGH! 9/12/20



Umbrella 9/5/20



I Get Reviewed by the Taos News! 8/30/20



Social Justice and Defunding the Police 8/24/20



Los Alamos Home Town Newspaper Reviews My Book 8/14/20



My Query-letter and Elaboration for the Proposal 8/7/20



Two New Reviews from Book Bloggers 8/1/20



Kitten Robe 7/24/20



Hey, Sister... 7/17/20



Diversity Versus Community 7/11/20



Femininity in Contrast to Femaleness 7/4/20



I've Finished Book Two! That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class! 6/27/20



Just 6/20/20



My Book's First Review in an LGBTQIA+ Publication 6/12/20



Gender Invert, or Nonbinary Trans? 6/6/20



Interviewed for a PodCast — Off The Cuffs 5/29/20



BOOK REVIEW: XOXY by Kimberley Zeiselman 5/23/20



I Want My Two Months Back 5/15/20



Diminishing Returns 5/9/20



I'm in Newsday! (aka Mainstream Press Coverage); + More Reviews 5/2/20



Sex vs Gender: A Working Definition? 4/25/20



The Inadequacy of Straight / Gay / Bi 4/18/20



Identity and Identification 4/11/20



A Bouquet of Reviews of My Book 4/3/20



Anatomy of a Review: Karen Bernard's LAKESIDE 3/28/20



Binary 2.0 3/20/20



Now It's Real: I'm in Print!! 3/12/20



That's Not Very Nice 3/5/20



I've Been Reviewed! 2/28/20



Androgyny & Unisex vs Being Differently Gendered 2/22/20



Unveiling: Author's Web Site (genderkitten.com) 2/14/20



Sexual Attraction and BodyShapes 2/7/20



REVIEWS – Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Green & Levithan) and My Razzle Dazzle (Todd Peterson) 1/30/20



It's a Date! 1/23/20



Oppression 1/16/20



Polarized Echo Chambers 1/7/20






2019



Accommodations 12/28/19



Unintentional Gatekeeping 12/20/19



Memes and Message Themes 12/14/19



Review: GenderQueer by Maia Kobabe 12/6/19



The Amazon's Brother 11/30/19



Bookstores and Libraries and Community Centers, Oh My! 11/23/19



I've Got the Cover! 11/15/19



TERF Wars (Part Two) 11/8/19



TERF Wars (Part One) 11/1/19



Attention Seeking 10/26/19



Pre-Typesetting: Final Author's Edits 10/19/19



False Dichotomy 10/11/19



Genre Variant 10/5/19



Reality and the Physical Sex Binary Thing 9/28/19



Transition is a Transitive Verb 9/21/19



Clarifying Gender Inversion 9/13/19



Tréjà Vu — I Have a Publisher for my Book! 9/5/19



Polyamory and the Self-Actualized Sissy 8/29/19



A Diagnosis of Dysphoria 8/23/19



The Sissy and the Stigma of Sexual Interest 8/17/19



To Gender or Not To Gender? 8/8/19



Tomboys 7/28/19



Masculine 7/22/19



Progress on THAT GUY IN OUR WOMEN'S STUDIES CLASS (Book II) 7/13/19



Sex, sex, sex, sex! 7/6/19



"Do you think I'm a Demigirl, or more BiGender?" (etc) 6/29/19



Seventh Grade 6/22/19



A JunePride Mea Culpa: My Homophobia 6/15/19



Split Identity 6/8/19



Depression 6/1/19



Compassion and Tenderness 5/24/19



The Art of Talking Past Each Other 5/17/19



Church and Sunday School 5/11/19



Skirting the Issue 5/4/19



Why I'm Not a Lesbian 4/27/19



My Pronouns 4/20/19



Britten & Crozier's ALBERT HERRING, performed by Utopia Opera 4/7/19



Sexual Feelings, and How They Affect Interaction 4/6/19



What's in a Name? 3/30/19



Workplace Acceptance 3/24/19



BOOK REVIEW: Sissy, by Jacob Tobia 3/16/19



Revisiting the Wydens: The Assault on Sissyhood 3/9/19



REVIEW: Boy Erased 3/2/19



Brushing the Dust off Book #2 2/24/19



The Overton Window 2/14/19



Querying 2/10/19



Critical Mass: Chicken or Egg Questions 1/30/19



Betwixt the Clergy and the Sissy-Femme Males 1/23/19



Singing the Sissy Femme Blues 1/16/19



Sex Versus Gender 1/9/19



In a Southern Small-Engine Repair Shop 1/2/19




2018



Altercasting and Presenting 12/26/18



Skirt 12/19/18



So Many Labels! 12/9/18



REVIEW: DePression Pink by Alice Klugherz 12/4/18



Difference and Marginalization 11/26/18



If You Could Be... 11/18/18



Almost Quit My Job... 11/12/18



Summarizing a Life 11/5/18



My Mom 10/30/18



About the Whining Thing... 10/21/18



Arguing Against Someone's Identity-Label is a Form of NOT LISTENING 10/14/18



Sex and Gender and Cognitive Dissonance 10/7/18



Not Trans Enough? 9/29/18



Different Strokes 9/18/18



Fitting In, or Not 9/13/18



Beyond the OTHER Binary 9/2/18



The Arrogance of Claiming to Be a Social Change Activist 8/26/18



Sexually Predatory Males, Gender Inversion, and the #MeToo Movement 8/19/18



A Lit Agent Considers My Book — LIVE! 8/12/18



More Plastic Surgery on the Book 8/5/18



Demisexual 7/30/18



Physical Morphology, Assigned Sex, and the Binary 7/11/18



re: My Manuscript is in the Shop Again 6/27/18



Defining Gender Inversion 6/18/18



BOOK REVIEW -- If I Was Your Girl 6/14/18



My Manuscript is in the Shop Again 6/7/18



The Coming-Out-Genderqueer Story: It's Something Else 5/29/18



The Art of the Coming Out Story: Seeking the Sweet Point 5/22/18



The Complex Problem of Dealing With the Oppressors 5/14/18



REVIEW: I Am Not an Easy Man 5/7/18



Gender Fluidity 4/29/18



Finding Your People / Coming Out: Genderqueer Compared to Other LGBTQIA Identities—Part One 4/23/18



Theybies 4/15/18



Update on My Get-Book-Published Endeavors 4/10/18



Sixth Grade 4/3/18



Chivalry 3/26/18



MOVIE REVIEW — A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) 3/19/18



Gender as a Verb: Identifying and Assigning 3/13/18



It's a Nice Thing 3/5/18



Urban Left, Rural Conservatism: Red/Blue Social Politics 2/27/18



A Possible Repositioning 2/19/18



Thoughts After a Year of Posting 2/12/18



Identifying: The Act of Saying "We" 2/5/18



re: Catherine Deneuve says men should be 'free to hit on' women 1/28/18



Querying Again 1/23/18



Brother? 1/15/18



The Femmy Boy's Guide to Flirting 1/8/18



Oppressor Guilt 1/1/18





2017



One Year of Weekly Blogging 12/26/17



Sissy Spring — Scrapbook of My Coming Out, in 1980 12/19/17



Masculinity on a College Campus 12/11/17



Masculinity and the Blue Collar Everyday-Joe Thing 12/4/17



BOOK REVIEW: You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano 11/27/17



A New Request for a Full 11/20/17



What If There Are No Differences Between the Sexes? 11/13/17



The Interplanetary Tourism Board Wants Your Help 11/6/17



Looking at Sexy People, and Being Looked At 10/30/17



Some People See Me as THE STRAIGHT DOPE 10/23/17



Deja Vu All Over Again: IT'S OFFICIAL ONCE MORE — My Book's NOT Going to be Published!! 10/16/17



The Damage Done 10/9/17



A Late Change 10/2/17



High School Reunion -- 40 Years Since Graduation in 1977 9/25/17



BOOK REVIEW — Dalí by E. M. Hamill 9/18/17



Third Grade 9/11/17



What's the Desired Outcome? 9/4/17



Anonymous Conversation: Old Piece of Writing 8/28/17



Publicity — Ramping Up 8/22/17



Identifying as GenderQueer -- Personal Evolutionary Timeline 8/16/17



BOOK REVIEW — Queen Called Bitch, by Waldell Abraham Goode 8/7/17



Albuquerque: Where the Story Takes Place (Part II) 7/30/17



Similes, Metaphors and Gender Identities 7/24/17



INTERVIEW: Author E. M. Hamill 7/18/17



BOOK REVIEW: The Simplicity of Being Normal, by James Stryker 7/9/17



Los Alamos: Where the Story Takes Place (Part I) 7/2/17



My Favorite Rejection Letters 6/26/17



About Radical Feminism 6/18/17



Accidental Outing 6/11/17



Pride Month and the Politics of Identity 6/4/17



Not Tripping the Light Fantastic 5/26/17



OK Dammit, Let's Get One Thing Straight... Ermm, I Mean Established... 5/20/17



re: Not Having Sex on the First Date 5/13/17



Deja Vu: It Looks Like I Might Have a Publisher... 5/6/17



BOOK REVIEWS: Tea And Transition, Barriers To Love 4/30/17



Presentation at Castleton University / Grandiosities 4/22/17



Presentation to Women's Studies Classes + LGBT Group, Mars Hill University NC 4/9/17



Conflict of Interest 4/3/17



Status Report 3/27/17



Gender, Sex (aka Physical Bodyparts?), and Gender Politics 3/20/17



What Do Men Want? 3/13/17



Sexual Orientation 3/6/17



Presentation at the LGBT Community Center in Manhattan 2/27/17



re: The Myth of Gender Neutral Parenting (Letter to the Editor) 2/20/17



Gender Inversion as a Sexual Kink 2/13/17



The Limits of Radical Androgyny, Part II: The Dismissive Minority 2/6/17



Regarding Matters Psychiatric... 1/30/17



The Transformative Realization Moment 1/23/17



The Limits of Radical Androgyny 1/16/17



Visual Sexual Attractiveness, Power, Sexual Confidence, and Gender 1/9/17



Reevaluation and Rededication 1/2/17





2016



Pink Floyd Lyric-user permissions, Being Interviewed by Podcasters, and a Butch Lesbian's Show 12/9/16



Gender Fluidity and the Nature of Identity 11/17/16



Possible Speaking Engagements, and Returning to the Lit Mines 11/9/16



The Other Shoe Drops 10/23/16



IT'S OFFICIAL—My Book's NOT Going to be Published! 10/3/16



My Agent, and My Publicist 9/14/16



The Editing Process 8/4/16



IT'S OFFICAL—MY BOOK'S GOING TO BE PUBLISHED! 7/13/16



Book Review—LIFE SONGS: A GENDERQUEER MEMOIR by Audrey MC 7/1/16



Orlando was about Gay People Being Massacred 6/14/16



Julia Serano's WHIPPING GIRL ...and Not so Obviously the Lesser Sex 6/5/16



It Looks Like I May Have a Publisher 5/11/16



Always Love Lucy Theatre Presents PYGMALION 5/6/16



speaking Engagement; and Intellectual Dishonesty in Our Politics 5/1/16



Updates and Revisions! 4/7/16



Author's Editorial Conference: Pins and Needles 3/8/16



TransGression; or Nope, Not Everything Is About the Male Gaze 2/28/16



Asymptotic Gender 2/3/16





2015



Passions and Pursuits—an Update 12/1/15



The Jill-O-Lantern Problem 10/30/15



Denying Being Gay or Trans: Pink Elephants in the Living Room 10/18/15



Eye Opener 10/4/15



Review — Sommerfugl by Bixby Elliot 9/23/15



Status of my Efforts 9/21/15



Book Review and Commentary — GRACEFULLY GRAYSON by Ami Polonsky 9/8/15



Reading Intersex; Plus, Querying Publishers 7/27/15



A Brief but Cogent Insight about Church, Patriarchy, Hierarchy, and Sex 7/24/15



Another Nibble 7/10/15



Requerying 6/28/15



Making the World a Safe Place to be Genderqueer 6/15/15



A Solid Nibble 4/28/15



Another Early Reader Reviews My Book 4/11/15



GenderKitten Makes Presentation, March 12 3/29/15



A Visit to the Tone Police 3/21/15



A Talk, A Conference, and a Manuscript Request 2/28/15



Boy Meets Girl — Movie Review 2/14/15



Chips, Snowflakes, Bags and the Geometry of Identity 2/12/15



What's a Nice Boy Like Me Doing in a DUNGEON? 1/7/15



Quickie Update: Stats, Early Reviews from Beta Readers, First YA Queries 1/5/15





2014



Who Do You Like? 12/31/14



Wordle of the Story of Q 12/19/14



Allan Revises His Book 12/19/14



Operation Rewrite 12/2/2014



Coming Out to Transgender People about Passing, Gender identity, and Terminology 11/30/14



Gender Isn't the Same Thing as Sex (Except to the Extent That It Sort of Is... 11/14/14



Jill o Lantern 2014 10/28/14



Genderqueer is Trending: Good News & Bad News 10/28/14



Reaching the End of the Line; and Materials Requested 10/21/14



There's a Reason I Say "Girl" Instead of "Woman" 9/30/14



Repositioning: From Radical Feminism to Gender Theory / Queer Theory, continued 9/17/14



Repositioning: From Radical Feminism to Gender Theory / Queer Theory 9/17/14



Fiction version of Query letter, and Synopsis 9/4/14



Repositioning 9/3/14



Why, despite the Absence of a Phenomenon, do I think a Phenomenon is Imminent? 8/27/14



Review— MMF by David Kimple, at The Kraine Theater 85 E. 4th Street, Lower East Side Manhattan NYC 8/23/14



Back to the Platform (again) 8/19/14



An Incident Along a Suburban Roadway 8/11/14



Encouraging Reply from a Lit Agent 7/27/14



A Pair of Meetings 7/24/14



Query Letter for 2nd book (That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class) 7/22/14



The Second Book 7/22/14



Group Identities and Comparisons: Elliot Rodgers and 'Nice Guys' 7/8/14



In which a Literary Agent Requests a Proposal 6/25/14



Follow-ups: Advance Reader's Critique (more thoughts), GenderBread Person 6/9/14



Another Advance Reader's Critique! A Really NICE One! 6/5/14



Attending a Transgender group at the GLBT Center of Nassau County 6/3/14



An Advance Reader Critiques My Book! 5/31/14



The Process— the author queries another batch of literary agents 5/24/14



Can't We All Just Be Equal (Without Jumping Up & Down About Your Own Little Cause 5/20/14



A Change of Title / New Query Letter, Too 5/17/14



Kicking Myself 5/13/14



Frustration and Anger 5/8/14



The Gamble: What the reader Gets Out Of It 5/6/14



A bit of backstory 5/2/14



My Query-letter, or Pitch: the short and hopefully catchy description of the book 5/1/14



I am author, and now I become blogger too 4/29/14