made for RAINBOW REFLECTIONS by Ad Astra Comix
a short piece on gay/queer transgender, nontraditional masculinity existing in established queer cis spaces.
cis masculinity is held so tightly as the default model-- race, fatness, illness/ability
further complicate access/assimilation to this "aspirational" model,
and queerness in trans men is/was seen as "evidence" against transness.
trans men had to prove their heterosexuality and disappear into a cishet world.
whether identifying as "binary" or something else, it feels imperative that
there be given room for self-defined masculinities, and accepted per one's presence/word.
