To Bend, To Fit, To Bare
Resentment
Anti-trans activists have recently victimized the trans community with rallies that claim to defend and protect their children. Whose children are they really protecting and how will this affect current and future generations of trans kids and their families?
Anti-trans cisgender people have consistently victimized themselves in portraying transgender people as the enemy. As a trans person, I’m angry that this is happening, angry about all the progress in recent years going down the drain, and angry for the trans children being affected most by this hate.
For this photography series, I asked my trans models to dress in what made them feel most comfortable in themselves, and to embody their own anger and feelings on this issue. This series confronts the anti-trans issue and my feelings about it. I capture the disappointment, anger and resentment in the trans community as they face hateful campaigns against them.
“In To Bend, to Fit, to Bare artists Laura Honsberger, Annika Kapral, Beckett Koreen and Christina Oyawale offer their reflections on the experience of Queerness within a binary society. The exhibited works approach Queerness as something more than a sexual identity, but as a powerful practice of disrupting, connecting and questioning. In so doing, the artists demonstrate how we can push beyond what is considered right, or good, and look instead towards a future of expanded acceptability.”