The Labor of Being Transgender

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2019

Being transgender is not an easy task, we have to create ourselves to cater to a world created by cis people for cis people. The emotional labor is overwhelming at times, every interaction is work for us.

An Offering

2019

Lumen Print

A Quien Corresponda

2019

Community sourced text, archival inkjet print

This is a project about that struggle. This is a project that is about getting harassed on the street, about being misgendered and deadnamed, about having to perform gender day in and day out just to be seen as something that cis people can wrap their heads around, to feel safe in a world that is full of violence towards us and so many on the margins. These are our letters to those of you that participate in this society, in these microaggressions, in this violence. The letters exist in the form of a stereotypical greeting card and are paired with decorative, delicate, yet powerful imagery. The lumen print imagery is used as a metaphor for change, for transition, and to represent the idea of being seen; a lumen print will only fade away if it is not , just like our stories and our livelihoods.

To The Person Who Wrote Slurs on My Door

2019

Community sourced text, archival inkjet print, lumen print

Breast Growth

2019

Lumen Print

You may not knowingly be part of the systemic violence, you may purposefully be a part of it, but you know who you are and where you stand. This body of work is healing for us as a community, and it exists primarily for us. We have not shared our stories for you, they are not to educate you or to make you feel guilty about what has been done to us, what you may have done to us. We are putting these experiences into writing for ourselves, so that we as a community can acknowledge the daily labors we perform, and process the violence of our lives.