{"id":20560,"date":"2025-02-25T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/?page_id=20560"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:24:45","slug":"jennifer-boylan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/academics-community\/co-curriculars\/past-co-curricular-events\/jennifer-boylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Boylan in Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kilachand Honors College is excited to welcome author Jennifer Finney Boylan<\/span> as their spring 2025 Person-in-Residence.\u00a0<\/span>Jenny Boylan is the author of 19 books, President of PEN America, and the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.<\/p>\n

This appearance is sponsored by the Boston University Kilachand Honors College, the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, the LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center, and the Howard Thurman Center<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Browse the drop-down boxes below to learn more about each event.<\/span><\/p>\n

CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us<\/h4>
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Date & Time:<\/strong> Tuesday, April 15, 2025
6-7:30 pm<\/p>\n

Event Description: <\/strong>Join us as Jennifer Finney Boylan reads from her new book, <\/span>Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us<\/span><\/em>. More than a deep dive into gender identity, <\/span>Cleavage<\/span> explores the differences between coming out as trans in 2000\u2014when many people reacted to Boylan\u2019s transition with love\u2014and the present era of blowback and fear with her trademark wit and humor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Register for the Event: <\/strong>This event is open to the BU Community; admission is free but registration is required<\/span><\/span>: bu-jennifer-boylan.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/span>
Registration opens on Saturday, March 1, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attendance<\/strong>: (For Kilachand Honors College Students)<\/em> At the end of the event, a QR will be posted for you to check-in. This QR will expire so please complete the check-in form immediately. You must check-in to earn co-curricular attendance credit for this event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conversation and Breakfast with Jennifer Finney Boylan<\/h4>
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Date & Time:<\/strong> Wednesday, April 16, 2025
8:30-9:30 am
Please arrive early to ensure that everyone has time to get food before the event begins.<\/em><\/p>\n

Event Description:\u00a0<\/strong>Jennifer Finney Boylan meets with students over breakfast for an informal conversation about her work and her journey to becoming the writer she is today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attendance<\/strong>: (For Kilachand Honors College Students)<\/em> At the end of the event, a QR will be posted for you to check-in. This QR will expire so please complete the check-in form immediately. You must check-in to earn co-curricular attendance credit for this event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Learn more about Jennifer Boylan<\/h4>\n
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\u00a9 2019 Photo by Dan Haar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of 19 books, including MAD HONEY (co-authored with Jodi Picoult) and SHE\u2019S NOT THERE (the first bestselling work by a trans American). \u00a0She is Anna Quindlen Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. \u00a0For many years she was contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, as well as the national co-chair of GLAAD; at present she is President of PEN America. \u00a0Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, LitHub, and elsewhere. \u00a0Her latest book, CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us is about the difference between men and women, as she has lived it, as well as the difference between coming out as trans in 2000, and now. \u00a0In 2022-23 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University; this spring she is Scholar in Residence at UC Santa Cruz. \u00a0She lives in Maine with her wife, Deirdre.<\/p>\n

View her website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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