Research Catalog

Title

Bordered lives : transgender portraits from Mexico / Kike Arnal.

Author

Arnal, Kike

Publication

New York, NY : The New Press, [2014]

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Holdings

Details

Description

183 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"A richly evocative collection of photographs by internationally renowned photographer Kike Arnal, Bordered Lives seeks to push back against the transphobic caricatures that have perpetuated discrimination against the transgender community in Mexico. Despite some important advances in recognizing and protecting the rights of its transgender community, including legislation against hate crimes targeting transgender people, discrimination still persists, and the majority of the often appallingly violent attacks against the LGBT community are against transgender women. In the highly personal profiles that make up Bordered Lives, including the first transgender couple to be married in Mexico and one of the country's most high-profile transgender entertainers, Arnal looks at seven individuals in and around Mexico City. He shows them going about their day-to-day lives: getting ready in the morning, interacting with family and friends, and devoting their lives to helping others in the transgender community. Moving in its honesty, Bordered Lives challenges society's preconceived notions of sexuality, gender, and beauty not only in Mexico but across the globe. "--

Subject

• Transgender people > Mexico > Social conditions
• Transgender people > Mexico > Pictorial works
• Transgender people > Mexico > Portraits
• Transsexuals > Mexico > Social conditions
• Transsexuals > Mexico > Pictorial works
• Transsexuals > Mexico > Portraits
• PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• portraits.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Portraits
• Ouvrages illustrés.
• Portraits.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Jon Stryker -- Prologue / Guillermo Osorno -- Introduction / Susan Stryker.

ISBN

• 9781620970249
• 1620970244
• 9781620970553 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014041816

OCLC

894149530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library