A series of questions

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I saw this on Reddit and thought it was amazing.
A very powerful message.

http://lweingarten.com/photo/question-1/

A Series of Questions This ongoing body of work explores the power dynamics inherent in the questions asked of transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender-variant people.
Many documentary photographic projects that deal with trans issues exploit the genders of their subjects, pointing to an "otherness" or inappropriately exoticizing their bodies. A Series of Questions seeks instead to make visible the transphobia and gender-baiting that can become part of everyday interactions and lives, forming a fuller picture of the various lived experiences. In so doing, this work contrasts with the dehumanizing approaches that predominate the images made of transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender-variant people, which often focus solely on their gender or trans status, or use them to further a specific point about social construction and gender.
The subjects hold signs depicting questions that each has had posed to them personally— some by strangers, others by loved ones, friends, or colleagues. Presented on white wooden boards, the questions are turned on the viewer, shifting the dynamics under which they were originally asked, and prompting the viewer to cast a reflective, self-critical eye upon themself, revealing how invasive this frame of reference can be.
As a greater number of subjects and questions are accumulated, a relentless conversation of questioning emerges. Attention is directed not on the backgrounds of the transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, or gender-variant subjects, but on the dynamics at work in these conversations. I am interested in uncovering the typology of these questions, discovering what categories of questions emerge as the script of power dynamics and interrogation is flipped.

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Rev Hellfire

Don't see the big deal. People ask other people question all the time.

Chuchoter

I think its a really interesting concept, putting the questions back at people. Some of them are really sad, I can't imagine what it must feel like to have strangers (or anyone else) ask those questions.

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Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Don't see the big deal. People ask other people question all the time.

You don't think being asked a question like "Who will want to date you?" is horrifically hurtful? Yes people ask other people questions all the time, but some questions have the power to cause pain, to humiliate, and some questions can be invasive, or some questions aren't really questions at all but are veiled statements.