A few days later, before I got in touch with Myles, I got an email from someone on the book-fest staff informing me that “Eileen goes by the pronoun ‘they.’” This was news to me: the person who claimed to have run the first “openly female” campaign for president in 1992 was going by “they”? I even went so far as to let this bother me for a moment. My lesbian hero disidentifying from womanhood? How could I process this? But then the real concern blossomed: I had to be on stage with Myles in a few weeks and I could not fuck this up. On the phone with Chelsea and my friends, freaking out, we
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