April Issue: Ready, Set, SWAP!

By Margit Detweiler

Oh MY we have a jam-packed issue this week, friends. Because this week, we’re all about swaps — trades, pivots, shifts and changes big and small. And by the time you get to be a woman of certain age, well, you’ve probably swapped a bunch, by choice or otherwise.

This week, we’re swapping careers, our age, our clothes, our shrink, our kids’ names and we have a beautiful piece about more of a transition: a mother shares the story of her child’s new name — and gender — on a brand new birth certificate.

We’re sending out our issue early today so you can snag yourself a ticket and see most of these stories LIVE at TueNight Live. We’re also planning to have a real, live swap meet. I’m bringing three of my own items to trade — think Kajagoogoo, Shephard Fairey and colorforms.

Curious? Come with your own swaps and find out.

If you’re not in NYC and can’t make it, we’ll be Facebook Live-ing right here. And in other Facebook news, we’ve started a pretty fabulous community called TueNighters, and you should definitely join. That’s here.

Without further tweaks, shifts or edits…

• Marcelle Karp’s millennial date swaps his age
• Lynn Harris changes her son’s last name to her own
• Wendy Marston recalls the clothing “Bitch and Swap pile”
• Dionne Ford shifts her religion
• Amber Briggle throws baby shower 2.0 for Max, her transgendered son
• Wendy Sachs fearlessly pivots her career
• And Robin Gelfenbein finally quits her therapist — phew

Ch-ch-ch-ch changing,

Margit

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