On vacation with the bearded lady

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On vacation with the bearded lady
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Susan Raffo
August 24, 2010 1:30 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/08/on_vacation_with_the_bearded_lady_life_outside_the.php 🔗


It took me a minute to notice what was going on and then, when the two of us were alone together, to ask my daughter about it: "You're having a hard time with how many people stare at your mãe, aren't you?" Mãe, by the way, is Portuguese for mother.

This was it. Exactly. For her first eight years, Luca didn't notice the stares - both curious and hostile - that can gather around her mãe's body, around my partner, Rocki's body, when we are out in public. You know the stares - the "What are you?" stares, those moments of gender policing.