Trans womanhood…
Trans womanhood is not an imitation of cis womanhood, to be validated only to the extent it is successful as an imitation. Many things are experienced by both trans and cis women, but trans women’s...
View ArticleBeing exception…
Being exceptional isn’t revolutionary, it’s lonely. It separates you from your community. Who are you, really, without community? I have been held up consistently as a token, as the “right” kind of...
View ArticleWhen you’re a t…
When you’re a trans woman you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody and if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male...
View ArticleShaadi Devereaux, on Black femininity and beauty
The question becomes, Whose femininity do we seek to question and most obsessively seek to uncover its “dirty secrets”? Are other women’s beauty so readily dissected and probed in private boundaries...
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