To Survive This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Older Adults

Andrea Jenkins, a Black woman with dreadlocks smiling and holding a basketball. She is wearing a t-shirt with Michelle Obama on it. “Andrea Jenkins, the first African American openly transgender woman elected to office in the United States, honored at a Minnesota Lynx game for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ community. She has serve on the Minneapolis City Council since January 2018.” by Lorie Shaull CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.

A collection of photographs and interviews with older adults who are transgender and gender non-binary.

“Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional…The resulting portraits and narratives provide a nuanced view into the struggles and joys of growing older as a transgender person and offer a poignant reflection on what it means to live authentically despite seemingly insurmountable odds.”

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