Expiration Date (Eaten By Eels)

Thank you so much for the good comments on this morning's entry, especially from trans readers -- not to devalue anyone else's words, but it's always especially helpful to hear from people who are going/have been through some of this shit and know the frustration. I'm still not sure what I will do, but I'm in a somewhat better headspace now. I know sixteen months on testosterone isn't long enough for most guys to pass, but I'm worried that I never will, mostly because of my height (5'1"). Yeah, there are plenty of teensy cis guys out there, but it's such a major gender cue that I doubt I'll ever stop feeling self-conscious about it. I wish I could be like faustfatale , who's about my height but somehow manages to carry herself in such a way that people who've met her often remember her as towering over them. But of course she has the double advantage of being a dominatrix from the Bronx.

Anyway, I finished a somewhat-related new piece a couple of days ago, which Grey says is creepy:



"Expiration Date (Eaten By Eels)," 9" x 12", $75 OBO

(To find out how the piece is related to what I've been talking about, read this entry I posted from Amsterdam last year...)

Thanks to Grey Cross Studios for photographing my work.