Kumu Hina

  Imagine a world where a little boy can grow up to be the woman of his dreams, and a young girl can rise to become a leader of men. Welcome to Kumu Hina’s Hawaii.

Entrancing and entransed men

Beginning at the beginning requires Dr. Michael (ne Laura Maud) Dillon as our point of departure, fittingly on the 99th anniversary of his birth. Himself a pioneer, it was his fateful meeting with Dr. George Foss (who was experimenting with testosterone therapy), which led to the care of no lesser luminary than the father of

From virgin girl to grown man, Albanian style

One of the silliest mistakes we humans make way too often is the assumption that the status quo is somehow a reached equilibrium, instead of a rest stop among the infinite variety of ways of being human. Gender seems to be one of those fields where we often are blinded to the marvels beyond the

Call me Reverend Sergeant

Nineteen days. Yes, I’m counting down already. I’m excited for Identity Boot Camp, the series of post-show convos after Learn to Be Latina matinees that I’ll be moderating. The play deals with a way of “passing” that I call (at least when I do it) “identity hopping”, a code-switching of sorts. The events, 3 on consecutive

On: A new calculation of the percent of men in America who are gay

In an opinion piece titled, “How Many American Men Are Gay?”, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz seeks to answer that question. (New York Times) At least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. Gay men are half as likely as