Let's make 'transanctuary' happen—and then give Miss Major all the credit.

"Miss Major taught me dreaming is a discipline."—Tourmaline

Nov 25 • 

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The Definitive Book Of Pick-up Ledes By Max Delsohn

Book club meets tomorrow night with Max!

Nov 16 • 

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Searching for intelligent signs of liberation.

AND! Max Delsohn joins the Being Alive Book Club Mon Nov 17 to talk "Crawl."

Nov 9 • 

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October 2025

BABC reads "Trans Kids, Our Kids"

This month, we’re reading Trans Kids, Our Kids — a remarkable narrative and advocacy project written in support of trans kids and their families. In the…

Oct 23 • 

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Being Alive Book Club Fall Reads 📚️🏳️‍⚧️✨

October—Trans Kids, Our Kids, November—Crawl

Oct 5 • 

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September 2025

Let's pretend its not the end of the world.

One more week to read Idlewild before our Sept 29 hang with writer James Frankie Thomas

Sep 21 • 

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Being Alive goes back-to-school (with friends and a stack of books)

James Frankie Thomas' joins us on Zoom to discuss his marvelous debut novel "Idlewild"

Sep 5 • 

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August 2025

Summer snapshots from (childless) father time

📣 Being Alive Book Club returns in September with big back-to-school energy 📚️🏳️‍⚧️✨

Aug 24 • 

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July 2025

See how NYT's heightened scrutiny of trans lives led to the Supreme Court ruling against us 📽️ 📰 ⚖️

We, the Being Alive Film Society of one, enthusiastically endorse seeing Sam Feder's new doc—Heightened Scrutiny—in a theater this month.

Jul 16 • 

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June 2025

"Nothing that can happen now can compare to how awful it felt to be pre-transition." — Oliver Radclyffe

Happy Pride! Oliver Radclyffe joins the Being Alive Book Club to talk sex, transition, and parenting.

Jun 29 • 

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The woods are just trees.

And somehow, I still believe, we're going to love each back to life.

Jun 23 • 

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Standards of care.

Getting my hands dirty while listening to NYT's The Protocol.

Jun 8 • 

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