anarchoace:

PHOTOS: Transgender Elders Show Us The Meaning of Survival

In the many years that Jess T. Dugan, a Boston-based trans photographer, has spent capturing images of gender-variant people, she says she’s consistently noticed a striking absence in both art and social sciences: imagery of older trans folks.

“And,” Dugan explains further on her website, “those [representations] that do exist are often one-dimensional.” So Dugan set out to fill this gap, teaming up with social work researcher Vanessa Fabbre since fall 2013 to develop the evocative photo project, “To Survive on This Shore.” In the recently released collection, diverse trans elders ages 50 to 86 are pictured at home or in meaningful spaces, gazing unapologetically into the camera, as if asking the viewer to look deeper into their unique context and life story.

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heavymuffintop:

thought i would conjure up some unapologetically fat & transy moments in time for trans day of visibility 

brandondotserpas:

coming out wasnt an option for me in high school even when surrounded with folks and orgs who ‘understood transness’, blame the discomfort on bigotry but for me it was all about the $$$, transitioning as i understood it meant new clothes and hormones and investing limited resources into something with little to no return at best horrible miss-investment at the median and death at worst, i had just about put off starting last october due to the burden and looking back at 6 months ive left a job started a new one worked on some projects and simultaneously dealt with the pressure on my body swerving in and out of interactions with capitol and validity. when im merchandise it makes it a hell of a lot easier to forgo doing things that make me healthy, to discount my livability in an effort to justify it, heres to another year of combating that. honor to the to the past contemporary and future contenders #tdov