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T Boy Swag
T Boy Swag is a collection of boudoir-type portrait photography shot by Nina Bihari, directed by Nina Bihari and Gabriel Canine, and starring Gabriel Canine- celebrating transmasculinitiy and butchness in response to "the desirability of the impassioned shapeshifter" also by Gabriel Canine - in which he explored the infantilization of transmasculine people parallel to the sexualization of the same individuals when presenting in a hyperfeminine manner.
Shapeshifter looked at the ways in which the general public saw desirability and applied it to the context of his transmasculine, crip, mid-size, hairy body - "t boy swag" was created in response to this as a rebellion against cishet beauty standards and sexuality and instead celebrates his own gender expression, what they feel empowered in - and expresses the way he feels connected to those elements.
"This is my working class, trans, queer, butch, mess of masculinity. This is me empowered.“
by Gabriel Canine and Nina Bihari
Starring Gabriel Canine
Art Direction, Edit also by Gabriel Canine
Art Direction, Camera work by Nina Bihari
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