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The First Black Trans Model Had Her Face on a Box of Clairol

Started by stephaniec, December 15, 2015, 09:51:46 PM

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December 15, 2015, 09:51:46 PM
The First Black Trans Model Had Her Face on a Box of Clairol

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/12/tracey-africa-transgender-model-c-v-r.html#

New York Magazine/By  Jada Yuan   and  Aaron Wong   Photographs by Peter Hapak
Styling by Diana Tsui *This article appears in the December 14, 2015 issue of New York Magazine.

"Tracey "Africa" Norman always knew that the question wasn't if she'd be found out, but how long she could go undetected.

To be black and from Newark in the mid-1970s and get plucked from a model casting call for Italian Vogue by Irving Penn — it was the kind of success story that was unheard of, especially for someone like her. She was signed by a top agency, photographed multiple times for the pages of Essence magazine."
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