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A model pronoun

Started by Shana A, July 14, 2011, 08:41:15 AM

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Shana A

A model pronoun
Transmissions
Published 07/14/2011
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

http://ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&id=168

In its June 12 issue, Newsweek magazine ran a profile on Brazilian model Lea T. Good in places and bad in others, the piece tells of Lea's early years growing up with a Brazilian soccer star, Toninho Cerezo, for a father, her early years as a model, and onto her current life as she prepares for male-to-female genital reassignment surgery. It's not that uncommon of a dialogue given the scores of transsexual narratives that have graced the printed page as far back as at least 1931, when Lili Elbe's transition story, Man Into Woman , was published.

Yet like so many others, this one runs into trouble right in the subhead.

The piece, titled "Lea T.'s Runway Revolution," carries a subhead that reads, "Brazil's hottest new model is tall, dark, and glamorous. She's also a he. Meet high fashion's newest gender-bending muse."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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