1/21/2024 0 Comments Barbie 2017 Memory free instalOne of the curators suggested that I do my reading from within an installation-behind the stanchion, as though I were a part of the display. Last year, I was invited to read from my book, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It speaks perfectly to the representation of trans women in contemporary media constantly hypersexualized, never humanized. In her classic 1991 essay on the objectification of women, “Our Barbies, Ourselves,” Emily Prager writes, “No matter how much sexuality Barbie possessed, she would never turn Ken on.… There was a loneliness about Barbie’s situation that was always disturbing.” My Asian, transsexual body looks nothing like Barbie’s, even as she’s been updated for the 21st century, but I still love that line. ![]() ![]() I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees ![]() Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please
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