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Dear Anti-Trans Lawmakers, I am here

I never felt connected to my gender at birth. I am a trans individual, and I use they/them pronouns. My work revolves around my experience in a world that constantly invalidates the trans experience. Roughly 1.6 million people over the age of 13 identify as transgender yet we are still fighting for gender affirming healthcare. In the United States alone there are currently 461 anti-LGBTQ bills that have the potential to become law. My ceramic work is a representation of the trans experience through implied body. Each work in my show embodies an individual, deceased or present, that lives in the world around us. Flags represent the 50 trans and non-binary individuals who have passed in 2021 alone. In this body of work I want to represent both the hardship and the joy that the trans community experiences daily.

Bio

Destiny Wilkens is a ceramic artist expected to graduate in May 2023 from Maine College of Art & Design with a Bachelors in Fine Art. Their work focuses on challenging their technical skills while also creating intriguing work. This current body “Dear Anti-Trans Lawmakers, I am here.” focuses on their trans identity. They use the colors of the trans flag to carry a thread throughout the show, while branching out from older more neutral work. This work is a statement about trans lives and how access is being taken away from the trans community.