I was born and raised in Columbia, SC. That’s also where I was when I figured out that I was gay. Growing up, there were no gay people (that I knew of anyway) in my neighborhood. Growing up as a skinny, bookish, glasses-wearing kid in the projects didn’t give me a very wide, or hopeful,…
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Teek
In 2022, I circled back to some of the participants of this series to ask them if they would like to update their profiles, or expand a little more on how the events of the last few years have affected them. Here is Teek’s response – In the four years since my photo appeared in…
Alex Trapp
I’m a person first, artist second. I don’t care much for personal meaning beyond that. I’ll talk about my transition if it will help someone else, but beyond that, for me, gender is the least important thing in my life. Trans male Gender ID : Male / Queer Age : 41 Location : Seattle, WA…
Joseph Liatela
I am a multi disciplinary artist newly based out of Los Angeles, California working in performance, print making, and video. My work explores the way we perceive gender, intimacy, memory, trans/queer intergenerational connection, and the self. Using movement, hormones, ritual, and medical technology to create a dissenting body, I draw from my experience in trans,…
Apaulo Hart
Who I am. I am A Creator and infinite awareness in action through this physical form while simultaneously a part of the Great Consciousness whom expresses Itself trillions of ways in endless cycling eternity. On a less deep level – In the physical world I am an artist and in the spiritual world I am…
Marley Alexander
I’ve tried to be a ton of different people, and I picked up a ton of party tricks along the way, but I’ve finally found the only way I make sense in the world. Queer trans woman she/her Oakland
Mason Lopez
I find myself in the neither here or there at every step, every turn of my journey. The best way I can describe my identity is to know that most days I don’t know what’s in store… and that’s ok. non binary humanoid they/them 34 oakland
Jiz Lee
In 2022, I circled back to some of the participants of this series to ask them if they would like to update their profiles, or expand a little more on how the events of the last few years have affected them. Here is Jiz’s response – How was your experience participating in this project? Posing…
Mya Byrne
An automatic poem : To feel the air on my shoulders as I unshielded my body from its years inside, covered over, embarrassed and shamed by so many, including and not least myself – to own my scars and let them bleed – to make my future independent on anything but by choice and grace;…
Maia Kobabe
I have always been a non binary person, I think I worked for a long time under the assumption that everyone was. It was only when I asked my friends and family to start using an alternate set of pronouns that I began to be confronted with the question ‘What does being non binary mean…