This might be a silly essay, about a silly movie, but at its core, I do think that My Cousin Vinny contains a seed of truth about the audacity that it takes to be publicly, glaringly trans and in love with another trans person.
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Aegor Ray is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and organizer with the Sex Workers Outreach Project in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Peach Mag, Cosmonauts Ave, BOMB Mag, and MNArtists.org. Ray is writing a collection of transsexual speculative fiction and paranormal romance short stories.
In the center of Meghe Dhaka Tara, Ranen Roychoudhury appears as the folk singer whose slow sway and arching features evoke a quiet transcendence. His sweet, lilting cries peel back the cruelty of the melodrama and present the beating heart of Ritwik Ghatak’s humanism.
As each male performer in Young Frankenstein revels in his own strangeness, I find new ways to tap dance in my own haunted house.