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Allison Lippy
May 29, 2022: Being a trans woman, who happens to also be a photographer, I realize the importance of representation of self and how that can be a powerful tool in storytelling. Seeing a queer persons’ story from their own perspective sheds light on what otherwise might go unseen.
Self-portrait.
May 22, 2017: I had refrained from cutting my hair for quite some time as it took a while for it to grow out to a length in which I felt more comfortable. Having a feminine physique isn’t the totality of who I am. To me, being a feminist woman is to be an individual, where I choose my own path of what is right for me and my body.
May 28, 2016: This is the first dress I ever owned, given to me as a gift by another trans woman and friend. I wasn’t even halfway to where I wanted to be physically and I felt like a walking work in progress.
April 20, 2016: Five days after undergoing a medically invasive and painful procedure known as facial feminization surgery (FFS), I pointed at the camera at myself. This surgery alters the bone structure in order to remove the effects of what testosterone had initially done to shape the skull. Still seeing elements of my past features, reality began to dawn on me that it would take a while for my “new” face to settle above my reconstructed skull.
March 26, 2016: The effects that hormones alone have on the human body, without surgical intervention, can be quite significant. With the progression of time, my skin began to soften, breast tissue started to develop, and the physical differences became more visible.
January 2, 2016: There were days when I really felt the weight of the discrepancy between how I saw myself in the physical realm and how that didn't align with my expectations.
By August 22, 2015, there was a feeling of excitement, of wanting to document and see myself evolve over an extended period of time.
At 27, this photograph (left) marked the first day of my transition on April 7, 2015. The middle frame, taken on May 18, 2015, documents a disconnect between me and my former self. The photograph on the right, taken on July 25, 2015, is a reflection of my understanding from research that hormones and hormone blockers would cause physical changes. Not knowing how this would affect my body specifically, there was an underlying anxiety of the unknown, as results vary from person to person.