![]() ![]() Venus, I know you best from the band, All The Pretty Horses more and more people have become familiar with your story and your journey over the years. Jill Riley: I'm with Lynette Reini-Grandell and also with Venus de Mars. At one point, I thought, “Wow, if things go really really badly, this is going to be sort of like a ‘Handmaid's Tale’ document of back when people had rights,” and you know, it'll be discovered 100 years from now. And it seemed as if with the new generation of young people who were finally emboldened to come out to their parents and grandparents and ask for the treatment that they needed, it seemed as if there was going to be a whole new generation of people experiencing the trans experience differently - I'll put it that way.Īnd so I wanted to, you know, just for them also say, “OK, here's where we came from,” because now we've got these political forces who are threatening to shut that down. And of course, that was a very different time. And suddenly, I realized that I needed to capture the moment in time, the moments - many moments in time - that Venus and I had navigated the world, while Venus was slowly trying to figure out what would be the best way to express who she was.Īnd she came out in the 1980s to me, and then to more and more people as you started fronting the band. Well, that all changed when Donald Trump got elected president. I resisted, because I'm not trans, you know, and I wasn't sure if anybody was interested in my part of the story. I had a couple of friends who said, you know, “You should write your story,” especially since they heard that Venus was writing a memoir. Lynette Reini-Grandell: I resisted writing this for many years. At what time did you decide, “OK, I'm gonna get this down on paper and tell this from my point of view?” Lynette, When did you kind of reach this point where you thought, “You know what? I want to tell this story that involves a couple, a longtime married couple” written from your point of view. Jill Riley: Of course! So “Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story,” and this book is many years, many years in the making. Lynette Reini-Grandell: Thanks for the invite. So Lynette and Venus, welcome to The Current. She's been performing most notably with All The Pretty Horses, and I know Venus is working on a memoir as well. You know, longtime figure in the Minneapolis music scene, also a visual artist, performer. Also in the studio, Venus de Mars is here. But two guests in the studio right now: Lynette Reini-Grandell is a writer, poet, musician, professor, but also the author of the book as this is Lynette's memoir. And it's called “Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story.” And I can't just talk to the author, because I thought, you know what? Somebody else's ears are really going to start burning if we're, you know, talking about her while she's not here. ![]() ![]() ![]() And recently, I was looking through a catalog from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, and my eyes landed on this book, and I just needed to know more. I'm Jill Riley and I have some special guests in the studio today as I want to talk about a brand-new book and talk about this brand-new book on this Friday morning, which is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Jill Riley: You're listening to The Current. ![]()
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