And also, I don’t know how to do an interview properly. But also, it’s because I don’t know how to relax, right? And be like ‘this is nice.’ How do I just accept that a nice thing is happening? So yeah, it’s wild. I feel a little skeptical about all of it. I’m from a world where I print up 20 copies of the zine, and I tried to sell all of them, you know what I mean? So having a publicity person at FSG is rad. You know, I’m not from a world where we do promo around the stuff that I do.
I have a vanity license plate for your book that I got in the mail the other day!
You know, as somebody who’s been really broke for a lot of my life, it’s been lovely to have people do the work that you care about, and we’ll give you money for it. It all feels very unlikely, but I feel just so grateful for it. Don’t know how to relax, it’s not my thing, which is hard. There’s been a lot of publicity for it over the last month. And I work as a therapist at the community mental health organization where we live, and my job takes a lot of time, and our children take a lot of time and yeah, it’s a struggle just to find time to do shit, you know what I mean? And I am currently developing a couple of things for screenwriting stuff that I probably can’t talk specifics about except to say, I have been really feeling like the asshole on this project for not being more on top of them when I’ve got book stuff coming out. My partner’s job takes a lot of her time. My partner’s been at a birth for three days, and I’ve been minding children. Niko Stratis: It’s going well, how are you?
Imogen Binnie: Hey, what’s happening? How’s it going? Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length. And make notes in the margin, share those with a friend, or some newly realized trans woman in your life. Nevada is out now, and I cannot recommend enough that you read it.
When it was announced Nevada would be getting a reissue in 2022, my mind immediately raced to the possibility I might get to chat with Binnie, who wrote the book that helped me feel seen as a trans woman when nothing else did, if I played my cards right. Nevada has been out of print for a number of years, and a lot of us who have read it have done so on the graces of an older trans somewhere, passing us a copy and telling us to read it. It’s unapologetic, messy, funny, heartbreaking, frustrating - and when it’s over, you want to talk about it with everyone. I think I’ve waited my whole trans career to talk to Imogen Binnie, who wrote Nevada, a seminal novel originally published in 2013 about being a trans woman. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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