Hey, How Come I'm Not On That List??

I don't know if there's all that much value in being famous, particularly when one is famous for something freaky. But, that's the way the world is nowadays; it seems like half the country is "famous" at least in their own little sub-group niche.

So one of my urnotalone.com friends posted a link to a list of famous transgender people. Basically, it was just copied from Wikipedia before self-hating TS Terri O'Connell got hold of it. So I asked, "hey, why am I not on that list?"

I was kidding around, of course but it also made me stop and think....



Well, it could be that I'm not famous for anything. Hmm... Actually, I was almost famous a few years ago as my art kind of took off and I got invited to many shows and got written about in some books and magazines. I kind of screwed that up by going in too many directions. People were talking about my abstract and expressionist art while I was busy delving deeply into impressionism. I don't like doing only one thing at a time.

Ah to be a decade younger again, and on the fast track.

Maybe I'm not transgender enough. That could be closer to the truth, actually. I spent most of my adult life just living it - and certainly not being an activist or a professional transgender person. My bad. The list tells me that you probably need to wave your private parts in the world's collective face to be considered anything in this community.

In the art world, it probably helps to be weird and I haven't sold myself as anything other than a woman artist. Maybe I need to change that. Still, I do NOT want to be famous for something bad. Unlike some people, I don't believe in the "no such thing as bad publicity" axiom.

A short list of transgendered famous people.