About a woman who now finds freedom as a non-binary queer person: "After I realized that I belong as a non-binary queer person, this is true freedom. Mainly mentally. Knowing my true identity makes me feel more powerful and proud. Physically, I am never afraid of what people would criticize me anymore," they said. Born as a woman, finding the right path for anything has never been easy. It’s certain submissive gender roles were written for their world, long before they were born. Not knowing has been true torture for them throughout their whole life. This photography series will portray the life of a person who is free from being bound to society’s norms like heteronormativity and the gender binary system in Myanmar. In a country like Myanmar, where there is no freedom or basic human rights, this kind of subtle free gender expression and identity has become a political statement as well. The personal becomes political.
About a woman who now finds freedom as a non-binary queer person: "After I realized that I belong as a non-binary queer person, this is true freedom. Mainly mentally. Knowing my true identity makes me feel more powerful and proud. Physically, I am never afraid of what people would criticize me anymore," they said. Born as a woman, finding the right path for anything has never been easy. It’s certain submissive gender roles were written for their world, long before they were born. Not knowing has been true torture for them throughout their whole life. This photography series will portray the life of a person who is free from being bound to society’s norms like heteronormativity and the gender binary system in Myanmar. In a country like Myanmar, where there is no freedom or basic human rights, this kind of subtle free gender expression and identity has become a political statement as well. The personal becomes political.
