In Praise of Shame

Just Being Nimself: A dream of sorts

nimself:

(crossposted on binarysubverter)

Right now I’m taking a figure drawing class. Basically, we draw nude models. It should come as no surprise that some of the explanations of the figure are cissexist. But every day in that class I get thinking:

I really want to have a trans figure drawing class.

I would so be up for this. I’d really like to model for figure drawing, but I couldn’t do it without being misgendered and it ending up being a horribly dysphoria-inducing experience.

(Source: scar-lip)

  1. niffick reblogged this from scar-lip
  2. scar-lip reblogged this from loocos and added:
    glad that we’re...variation in our (thus far only curvy-ish, no visible penis) models...
  3. loocos reblogged this from scar-lip and added:
    cool idea. Nude modeling is so frustrating because they always pick models...woman should...
  4. knobscene reblogged this from inpraiseofshame and added:
    I would love to have the opportunity to draw trans people for life drawing class
  5. inpraiseofshame reblogged this from scar-lip and added:
    figure drawing, but...couldn’t do it without being misgendered and it ending up being
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