9 Trans and Nonbinary People Discuss Beauty, Sexiness, and Bodies – Them
The creator continues, “I was like, Oh, so if I shaved my beard, would I be in this conversation? If I lost weight, would I be in this conversation? If I wasn’t wearing cargo shorts, would I be in this conversation? What doesn’t make me a girl?”
TRSA’s art, bursting with trans, fat, hairy beauty, is a rebuke of expectations that the girls have to serve traditional “femininity” to be accepted as femme. “Not everyone is puss, not everyone is going to be emulating whatever the fuck you think transness is,” she says. “Everyone has a different version of whatever that may or may not be. Respect that.”
When do you feel your hottest?
I feel the hottest when I am wet, so either covered in sweat, not showered in three days, and literally disgusting, or when I’m in a breast plate and a wet human unit gallivanting for a bunch of gays.
Speaking of feeling hot, how do you navigate the politics of desire in your life?
Honestly, I am teetering on being a smelly bro and being a diva at the same time. How do I go about that? I’m still unsure. I just made my first Hinge profile where I am completely honest about who I am as a person. I feel like on sex apps, on dating apps, I definitely have been holding up a masculine front, as some may call it. I may or may not have been catfishing people for years. Now that I put my whole fucking pussy out on this Hinge profile it’s been a ride trying to find someone who is able to understand that, especially as someone who’s hairy and trans.
What advice would you have for earlier versions of yourself navigating reductive body-based expectations?
Put the fucking dress on. Also, get on that J Train and go into the fucking city. Oh, and if a group of kids empties a water bottle on your head on the train, just remember how cunt you look with wet hair. And although I do want to say, “Hold back on some looks,” at the end of the day, if you feel amazing in it, then fucking do it. Also, there’s going to be an Amazon basics celery chopper in your bag, honey.
Interviews have been edited and condensed.
Photographer: Nico Reano
Photo Assistant: Jeremiah McNair
Groomer: Katie Nishida
Studio: Love Studios
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