No Spoons Out Here is a series of Polaroid photographs and drawings and writing documenting my pursuit of a mid-life gender transition in the Lower Mainland region of B.C. Most of my life, every time I had an occasion to make a wish, I wished to become a woman, whether by magic or, a next life. I emerged from this impossibility though, forging a new life after coming out as queer in 2022 at the age of 41. I found a job in B.C. and flew from London, Ontario to Vancouver, staying with family until I found a small laneway apartment above a garage prone to blazing orange suburban sunsets.
These images attempt to articulate a new self and show the calculated negotiation still necessary to assert one’s transgender identity in most places in Canada today.I am extremely grateful for this project to be supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
