Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male

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Author: Clarissa Sligh Publisher: Leeway Foundation (2009) Wrongly Bodied relates the stories of Jake, a contemporary white male imprisoned in a woman’s body, as he transitions fro m female to male, and Ellen Craft, a 19th century black slave woman who escapes to Philadelphia from Georgia by passing as a white male slave owner. Working as staff support at a small woman’s college in Denton, Texas, and in the US Army reserves, Jake had been a female soldier in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Sligh and Jake worked together over four years to document his journey. What results is a book of photographs and texts that take us inside what became a highly transformative journey for the photographed and the photographer. Show more