A project focused exclusively on the visibility and transparency of the trans and non-binary community at Berkeley. Prompted by questions about the impermanence/permanence of identity, power, and warmth, here are their answers. Here are their faces.
Photography by Natalie Shao and Alen Alhamdaputra.
I feel warm when I can be in my own world, when I can feel what exists. I feel.
My hair makes me feel powerful. The shorter it got the closer I felt to my truest form.
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, and I open the blinds and the light pours in and I have a tree on my desk and the light filters through that and the dust starts to glisten. I feel warm then.
Q: What makes you feel powerful?
A: I’ve never been asked that…
Being comfortable makes me feel powerful. It’s exciting and scary and guilty, guilt-inducing.
