#mariette pathy allen

[troutreznor]

Sylvia Rivera during the filming of "The Transexual Menace" (1996)

photo by Mariette Pathy Allen [website] [instagram]

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[distantvoices]

“Found Family” Balam Magazine Issue 8

Images by Óscar Sánchez Gómez, Lucas Cordeir, KasaLoka and Mariette Pathy Allen

[cosmicanger]

During gay pride, early 1980s

📸 Mariette Pathy Allen

[coffeetoffeeart]

[HUMANIZED C!BEEDUO THESE AREN'T THE REAL GUYS DON'T GET IT TWISTED!!!!!]

ahem. silly, unpractical bath time ft. 1950s au c!beeduo. inspired by a photo of Max and Corissa Anderson taken by Mariette Pathy Allen (below cut)

[animefeminist]

Lilies In Transition: The state of trans representation in yuri

Content Warning: Discussion of transphobia, transmisogyny

Spoilers for I Wanna Be Your Girl

Yuri is a growing genre, increasingly depicting more and more varied stories about sapphic love. As yuri continues to get queerer, the existence of trans people in these stories would be one way to provide validation for trans readers in their gender and sexuality while also helping cis people understand and internalize our long standing place in the sapphic community. Yuri works featuring trans characters do exist, though their history is complex and they remain relatively few.

A Slice of Reality 

Trans people are rooted in the sapphic community and have been a core part of it for as long as it could be called a community. Lesbians, by their very sexuality, defy the gender binary which was so strictly defined by heterosexuality, and in many cases they lose access to their conditional womanhood. This is furthered by the very long history of people engaged in the sapphic community who actively defied gender norms by presenting masculine, be that as a Butch, a Stud, lacking a label or some other label. Following from this, there is plenty of evidence of gender-defying companionship between lesbians and trans people in historical documentation, such as the works of Mariette Pathy Allen, who has chronicled transgender people for over 40 years as a photographer and released several books of her work. This is also present in fiction: for example, Alison Bechdel’s classic comic series Dykes To Watch Out For (1983) features a strip talking about the need for cis lesbians to have solidarity with trans women.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[goingtolesbos]

really incredible cisgender allies don’t just give up. considering they will never be mariette pathy allen

[ebp-brain]

chapter 2 on ao3

1985, London. The wizarding queer art scene revolves around a gallery called the Bent, where conceptual artist Remus Lupin and photographer Sirius Black exhibit their works, and a club called the Bush, where they spend time with Jane and Lily Potter, who work at a nearby heath clinic. Although war with Voldemort was averted, the wizarding world is still simmering with tension. In the face of increasing intolerance and calls for censorship, Remus’ art takes a riskier, more political turn, and he must figure out how to balance self-expression and safety. Also, he might be falling in love with his best friend.

Author's notes on ch. 2:

This chapter involves Remus and Sirius photographing Jane as part of a joint art piece about gender identity. Trans women have always been critical to queer life, queer art, and queer rights movements, and I wanted this fic to acknowledge that. The 80s wasn't a very kind time for trans people, who faced discrimination and hatred not only from mainstream society but many lesbian feminists as well. Yet there were many trans folks who flourished, embracing a wide variety of lifestyles, modes of gender expression, and concepts of gender. Jane's preferences and experiences in this fic--she isn't really concerned about passing, and she doesn't feel much gender dysphoria--aren't, of course, meant to represent all trans women then or now, but are specific to her. Like most of her friends, she embraces a queer identity (both trans and bi) and does not give a fuck about conventionality. I think Remus and Sirius both adore her in a way that is less complicated than their love for each other, and I wanted to show them expressing that through their art (which is the way they express pretty much everything).

“Vanessa [in a Fur Jacket]” 1978-1989, left, and “Andy Becoming Andi, near San Francisco,” 1978-1989, right, by Mariette Pathy Allen (source)

Here are a few articles about trans experiences in the 80s:

BEING TRANS IN THE 1980S - NIGHTLIFE, PART 1 AND 2 (Digital Collections of the History Project)

Captivating Scenes of Trans Life Across America in the '80s: Celebrating Gender Expression

Gen(d)erations: How Sandy Stone “Struck Back” Against Transmisogyny

[troutreznor]

During gay pride, early 1980s.

photo & caption by Mariette Pathy Allen [website] [instagram]

[pics2200]

https://linktr.ee/nichproductions From the 1970s to Now, Mariette Pathy Allen Traces Transgender Stories https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/05/from-the-1970s-to-now-mariette-pathy-allen-traces-transgender-stories/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr https://linktr.ee/nichproductions

[talkingpictures2020]

Mariette Pathy Allen Chronicles of Gender Diversity

Today, gender is increasingly understood as a construct open to the interpretation of the individual. A Pantone of possibility rather than a brick-block binary. Such openness is a relatively new state of affairs. Not so long ago, exploring and expressing one’s non-binary psyche was something that must be kept totally hidden or run the risk of public ridicule, ostracism, and physical abuse.

It was in the context of this necessarily secretive world of non-conformist gender expression that the photographer Mariette Pathy Allen first became aware of men who dressed as women. It was to change the direction of her artmaking and, equally, to change the way male-to-female crossdressers were represented in the USA. Over the years she became an unofficial chronicler of the transgender and non-binary community and an activist ally. Her approach has remained constant: the caring and sensitive representation of all gender-diverse identities as part of a human continuum to which we all belong. A triumph of self-actualisation over simplistic convention.

Mariette Pathy Allen discusses her remarkable chronicle of gender diversity at Talking Pictures.

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Mariette Pathy Allen on five decades of photographing trans, nonbinary & gender nonconforming people

Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing, interviewing, and advocating on behalf of transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people for five decades, following a chance meeting with a group of cross-dressers in the late 1970s in New Orleans. Through her artistic practice, she has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness, contributing to cultural and academic publications and…

[citylifeorg]

Mariette Pathy Allen and Culture Lab LIC announce Pride exhibitions

“BREAKING BOUNDARIES: 50 YEARS OF IMAGES” HIGHLIGHTS THE GROUNDBREAKING WORK OF MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN, FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS OF GENDER-EXPANSIVE PEOPLE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE LIGHT OF EVERYDAY LIFE “BREAKING MORE BOUNDARIES,” A GROUP EXHIBITION RELATING TO MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN INCLUDING INVITED ARTISTS ZACKARY DRUCKER AND JESS T. DUGAN, FEATURES ART THAT DISPLAYS THE TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES AND…

[cosmicanger]

Mariette Pathy Allen

[hangsawoman]

1987, pathy allen