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Here is some info about Florence Henri, a queer surrealist photographer born in 1893 who used self-portraiture to explore their ambivalence to gender: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/florence-henri_n_6723024 …
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I’m so happy people are responding to this—but to clarify, I don’t wish to bolster trans-exclusionary narratives. Here’s some info about Claude Cahun, a trans photographer born in 1894 who used photography to explore their fluid relationship to gender: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/claude-cahun/ …https://twitter.com/ByfordPoet/status/1070497208011812865 …
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Here is a portrait taken in 1936 by Marianne Bresler of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a genderqueer writer who has too rich and painful and beautiful a life to explore in one tweet. Here’s a NYT article about them: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/obituaries/annemarie-schwarzenbach-overlooked.html …pic.twitter.com/wsxE1SSa3f
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On the flip side, information about transfemale photographers before the 1930s isn’t forthcoming (probably an effect of transmisogyny) but I would love to research this properly. Genderqueer people also have a long-standing photographic inheritance. Let’s not erase this.
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Female erasure
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Also in breach of Twitter in regards to protection of sexual orientation.
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Stop lying. Who is this helping?
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Odd, isn't it? Seems any discussion of women or women's history must include anyone trans, in case they feel left out. We are not allowed anything if our own anymore. It's not the same with male authors, artists, etc. Nobody rushes to soothe trans feelings there.
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