From the Author
Rosalyne Blumenstein MSW, Producer, Director, Writer, Editor. You've seen her on 20/20, A&E, and German Prime Time Television. Rosalyne's words are published in Psychological and Scientific Journals, Addiction Literature, Queer Academia, National Magazines, and Newspapers.
As a social worker, Rosalyne has taken pride in her addiction and prevention work.
As a National Consultant and Trainer, Rosalyne has taken pride in her ability to educate her audience/s.
As a woman of transexual experience, Rosalyne has taken pride in being a loud-mouth, tell it like it is, sexually provocative native of Brooklyn NY.
In her book 'BRANDED T' Rosalyne has taken pride in sharing, no holds barred, how she has juggled her history of sex work, mental health concerns, addiction, gender identity issues, and academic success.
From Canarsie to Times Square
From Street Corner to City Hall... Whether the discussion is sex work or social work, Rosalyne's words, visuals, and truth will mesmerize you!
From the Inside Flap
Spotlighting the fabulous 70s and 80s in NYC. Sex Sexuality/ Homelessness/ The Sex Industry in NYC/ Addiction and Recovery/ Academic attainmnet/ Social justice and iinjustice within the hierarchy of a struggling queer movement
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rosalyne Blumenstein MSW now resides in Southern California and is working with and for:
HIV+ substance users and mis-users, cancer patients, the TG communities, and coaches folks in need of support surrounding incremental/substantial life transformation.
In New York City Rosalyne spearheaded and implemented programs catering to the needs of people along the transgender continuum at the LGBT Center. She assisted in the development of an evening program at Housing Works Inc (NYC), a program dedicated to the needs of the HIV/AIDS populations that deal with homelessness and substance use and misuse issues.
Rosalyne's work centers around, but is not limited to:
HIV Prevention and Education, Harm Reduction, Addiction and Recovery, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation, Marketing Strategies Focusing on New Programming, Outreach to the Sex and the Body Worker Populations, LGBT Communities, Communities of Color, Indigent and Disenfranchised Populations, Youth at High Risk for HIV/AIDS, other STDs, Addiction, Exploitation, and ways in which to celebrate Self Empowerment
Rosalyne is a member of:
The National Association of Social Workers NASW
The National Association of Alcohol and Drug Professionals NAADAC
Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association HBIGDA
International Federation for Gender Education IFGE
She is a Certified Trainer with:
The Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services
National Development Research Institute
Harm Reduction Training Institute/Harm Reduction Coalition on the East and West Coast
Rosalyne co-directed 'Safe-T-Lessons' with Dr. Barbara Warren (1996), a film focused on HIV Prevention and Education
Rosalyne produced and directed 'Gender Variance Perception... YOURS/MINE/OURS' a film shown at the NGLTF Creating Change Conference as well as the NY Film Festival (1998)
Rosalyne produced and directed "Gender Identity Mergers and the Power of Language" for HBIGDAs bi-annual conference in Galveston Texas (2001).
Rosalyne has been seen on 20/20, A&E special The Transgender Revolution, and Rosa Von Preunheim's 'The Transexual Menace'. She assisted with the development of the films Boys Dont Cry and Southern Comfort.
Rosalyne has been written up in the NY Times, Pride Magazine, NY Magazine, Time Out, The Advocate, The NY and Washington Blade, New Yorker Magazine, LGNY, San Francisco Frontiers Magazine, and the Village Voice.
