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Miss Topaz is our newest faculty member, having worked for
many years as a Legal Assistant for the American Civil Liberties
Union, where she was very active in promoting the rights of
all minorities: women, people of color, gays and lesbians
and the transgendered community. Today, she focuses her attention
largely on working and playing with gender illusionists. She
was recently in a serious relationship with a cross-dresser
for two years, and believes that she, herself, is a drag queen
trapped in woman's body. She is also a cabaret singer and
performance artist, and frequently appears as Marlene Dietrich
in drag. She was recently interviewed by Annie Sprinkle about
her wild and diversified forays into sex, for the magazine
Over 50. She also had a short story published in Prometheus,
the magazine of The Eulenspiegel Society, which won Third
Prize in their literary contest. The title is Life is Stanger
Than Fiction and was about a serendipitous blind date
with a cross-dresser.
Her credentials for her work at the Acdemy are best described
by a recent admirer, who wrote:
"Thank you SO much for -- for -- YOU. You are as
sweet and understanding as a "real" lady can be. I hope some of this
true womanliness rubs off on your students -- that's the definition of a
real gal: truth, understanding, tenderness." |
