Just keep going.
And take a trip with the Being Alive Book Club to 'Nevada'
Keep going.
That’s the post. And my mantra right now.
We’re having a brutal winter here in NYC. I’m having a a burst-out-in-tears-on-the-subway week. Keeping this short and sweet so that I can keep going…
xx Kyle
📚️🏳️⚧️✨ Being Alive Book Club
This month, we’re reading Imogen Binnie’s righteous road trip to Nevada.
This book is legendary, says all the things, and unfolds at break neck speed. Truly a marvelous representation of what it feels like to be a years deep into your transition and just at the starting block. Join Imogen on Zoom Wed Feb 25th at 8p ET 5p PT (RSVP here)
Being Alive Book Club is a community effort to amplify trans voices by reading trans authors. Every month we read a book across genres.
February: Nevada with Imogen Binnie
March: Pretty with KB Brookins
April: Night Night Fawn with Jordy Rosenberg
May: When the Harvest Comes with Denne Michele Norris
June: Woodworking with Emily St. James
Have a trans author you want to recommend to Being Alive Book Club? Drop me message or comment on this post.
▶️ Press Play
Bought tickets to take the kid to see Brandi next week so that for the rest of her life she gets to say that her first concert was this badass queer rocking out at Madison Square Garden. (And, selfishly, it gets her hooked enough to dig into Brandi’s discography on on road trips and slow Sunday mornings.)
🔗 Follow the Reader
I have a post it on my studio wall (thanks Tunde) that reminds me:
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
It’s nice reinforcement for me to focus on what I can control, even while we all grapple with rapid (and unwanted) change we never asked for. My dear friend Liz Tran has an incredible new book that launched this week that speaks to this exact moment.
AQ presents a framework for assessing and cultivating one’s agility. Liz's book will get shelved under “business” but I think her lessons are applicable for a much broader audience. She lays out four AQ archetypes, gives you a quiz to identify yourself, and then offers tailored strategies for facing CHURN: Change, Hiccups, Uncertainty, Rupture, Newness.
Thanks to Liz, I now know my agility archetype is somewhere between 📝 Novelist and 👨🚀 Astronaut. I’m passionate, I see the future (yay!), but throw a little CHURN my way… that’s when I can get overwhelmed and impatient. Like when I smashed my laptop screen earlier this week and had to do my job on a phone for two days.
Liz is one of my favorite people to turn to when I’m feeling stuck, I’m excited for you to get some of her wisdom.
