Status Updates From Trap Door: Trans Cultural P...

Now this is pretty interesting.
Trans man photographer talks about photographing cis men while keeping aesthetics from prior shoots (of trans people).
"In interviews before the shoots I would confront them with my identity, the workings of my body; we would compare notes." And he worked into the pieces their own struggles w masculinity, it's value and devaluation, its contradictions with notions of humanity, etc

"Often, trans experience begins with an affective claim to futurity that rejects the truth of the visible."

Hey it's pretty weird for an essay to correctly name someone they cite then deadname the same person in the footnotes???? Why, cos that was their name when it was published? Seems like a very obvious thing to not fucking do and you should know better being trans also. Idk

"Trans liberation is not rooted in the longevity of any one institution or in the efficacy of one organizational model; trans liberation is born out if and continually renewed by the labor and resilience of the communities that continue to push toward possibility."

i’m devouring this lol