What a delight that my first book festival was the Virginia Festival of the Book! I was in my hometown of Charlottesville at the festival my mother loved to attend, presenting on the grounds of the university where my father was on faculty for decades and where I worked in the 1990’s when I started […]
It was wonderful to be selected by Representative Salud Carbajal as a 2019 Congressional Woman of the Year for the California 24th District for the work I do on LGBT issues. Here’s what I said when I received the award. If you read or watch to the end, you’ll know what to ask me to
My hometown has become a hashtag. I grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia in the 1970’s and 80’s. It was a quiet, Southern college town. My biracial family moved there in 1968; only a year earlier the marriage of my Chinese-American mother and New York Jew father would not have been legal in Virginia, but I