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'Transfigurations' Transfixes Bookshop Santa Cruz Audience

Started by Shana A, October 14, 2011, 09:31:38 AM

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October 14, 2011, 09:31:38 AM
'Transfigurations' Transfixes Bookshop Santa Cruz Audience

Celebration of a new book educates on the lives of transgender people

    By Beth Pittenger
    October 13, 2011

http://santacruz.patch.com/articles/i-transfigurations-i-transfixes-bookshop-santa-cruz-audience#photo-8108524

Laughter, tears, deep sighs, and applause filled a packed Bookshop Santa Cruz Thursday night in celebration of the new book of Jana Marcus's documentary photography of transgender people, Transfigurations.  Marcus shared the stage with transgender activist and writer Jamison Green, who read from his own provocative book, Becoming a Visible Man.

The award-winning photography featured in Transfigurations toured for six years, with constant questions by observers and academics about when it would reach book form.  However, getting the work published was no easy task.  Marcus used pledges and donations to essentially self-publish after a year and a half of trying publishers—testimony to the still present fears and ignorance that transgender people face.
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