Transgender artist documents the journey of his transition using illustrations
23 July 2016 12:32 PM IST23 July 2016 12:32 PM IST
Transgender artist documents the journey of his transition using illustrations
Erin Nations, a 33-year-old artist from Oregon, decided to use doodles and comics as way to deal with the physical changes that he experiences as a result of his gender transitioning. (Photo: @elnations/ erin-nations.tumblr.com)- Of course, a sugar rush always works when stress levels are high!
- Gender transitioning not only affects the person going through the process but also people around them.
- Nations says that creating such comics has had a therapeutic effect' on him.
- He says that he receives messages from trangender teens and kids about how they glad they were to have come across his work.
- Ah, only if gender transitioning was that easy.
- He reveals how hormone therapies, which are part of the gender transition process, can take a toll on one's body.
- He says that he had to live with gender dysphoria since his childhood days. Gender dysphoria is a condition in which people feel uncomfortable when the gender identity assigned to them does not match up with their gender identity.
Erin Nations, a 33-year-old artist from Oregon, decided to use doodles and comics as way to deal with the physical changes that he experiences as a result of his gender transitioning. (Photo: @elnations/ erin-nations.tumblr.com)
Transgender artist documents the journey of his transition using illustrations
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