Changing Our Social Landscape: The “New” Faces Of Trans & Genderqueer People

No, they’re not new per se. What’s new is how we’re seeing their faces more broadly, as symbolic sledgehammers of society, breaking down walls that have for decades stood in the way of authenticity.

Martie Sirois
Gender From The Trenches
9 min readMar 17, 2018

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Charlie (diptych), by artist Libby O’Daniel, mixed media on panel. Part of a larger body of work, In Other Words, on display in downtown Raleigh at Artspace through March 31, 2018

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Martie Sirois
Gender From The Trenches

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