\❤️ 5: Pink Flowers on Living as a Trans Woman

“I got into the car as a gender-nonconforming person, and I got out of that car a goddess.” – Pink Flowers, Black trans artist, pleasure activist and educator
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What’s it like to live as a trans woman?

I wanted to ask my friend, Pink Flowers, about her experience finally finding a sense of belonging inside her own body. But I was also a little afraid to ask. Would I be intrusive? Offensive? Clumsy?

Probably.

But she agreed to talk with me anyway.

We have an intimate conversation, woman to woman about her journey through bra fittings, cat calls and our human experiences living inside the female form.

That's this week on Bar\Heart.

Read the transcript, plus photos and bonus content, in the newsletter published on April 26, 2022 ↠ https://belonging.bulletin.com/life-as-a-trans-woman-notorious-pink-flowers
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Read more about Pink and her work here ↠ https://www.notoriouspink.org/
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Credits: Music and audio production by Silas Hite. Reporting and editing by Amy Haimerl.
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Amy Haimerl is a veteran journalist who is interested in the intersections of class, culture and economics. She writes Bar\Heart, a weekly newsletter that features intimate conversations from the heart. Plus cocktails! She learned to read in the cab of an 18-wheeler and now teaches journalism and entrepreneurship at Michigan State University. Her memoir, Detroit Hustle, is a love story to her new home, where she lives with her husband and two cats, The Overlord and June Carter Cat.