“yes bitch, you missed a spot shaving. yes gurl, you really have some 5 o’clock trace to arrive below your basis. yes lover, yourself profile doesn’t posses JLo or Beyonce shape
AND you are however screwing stunning. no concerns. no worries. no ifs/buts/umms about that.”
—Luna Merbruja, “For All My Homegirls Who are Semi/Non-Passable”
The year is actually 2008, and you are clearly a seventeen-year-old, pre-transition trans girl of colors slogging through countless heteronormative hell that’s high school. To the majority of of your friends, trans women are mythical animals, “she-males,” the punch distinctive line of an infinite tank of depressingly unimaginative jokes.
Janet Mock has not however emerge as a trans girl inside the pages of Marie Claire, and Laverne Cox is actually an obscure celebrity decades far from making the woman big break in tangerine Is the New Ebony. There isn’t any one on television becoming their “ chances product ,” to share with your that you which you might be gorgeous. Continue reading »