One of the most beautiful photographs I know of is an image of a woman standing in the doorway of a barn, backlit in a sheer nightgown, peeing on the floorboards beneath her. It was taken in Danville, Virginia, in , by the photographer Emmet Gowin, and the woman in question is his wife, Edith. The picture is so piercingly intimate that I find it difficult even to look at it. This is not because I feel as if I am intruding, or being shown something that I was not meant to see, but simply because it seems to hover too close to the vital force of human connection. It is too poignant, too alive. Edith was the beating heart of the collection of photographs that Gowin took of his extended family during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, which garnered him his first rush of recognition, and which remains his greatest body of work.
Photos that Confront the Fear and Anxiety of Peeing While Trans - VICE
It's , and peeing while trans is still generally viewed as a political activity. If it's happening in a public washroom, legislators want to know it, schools are trying to rebrand it , and at least one Alberta mom attempted to rap about it. All of this never-ending debate can feel pretty fucking strange, considering trans people are just doing the same things as everybody else in there. That there isn't competing outrage over sounds, smells, and soap availability is anybody's guess. It's frankly no wonder trans activist Jack Fox has spent a decade scouting out every non-gendered toilet in his city. Even though Fox says he "reads" as male, the the fear of harassment in the "men's room" still lingers. Fox recently teamed up with Vancouver photographer Jackie Dives on a photo series that confronts those anxieties and the transphobia that causes them.
Some might think Justin Bieber has unfairly gotten a bad rap, but a new video of the year-old carelessly peeing into a restaurant mop bucket doesn't add to any good-boy image. TMZ obtained a video of Bieber relieving himself into a mop bucket in the back of an unidentified restaurant in New York City earlier this year. The singer -- whom TMZ describes as an "oblivious, self-important little twit" -- apparently saw no issue with it, laughing through the recording despite the fact that some unwitting employee probably had to clean that up. The pop singer has been making fewer headlines about his music and more about his behavior recently. A Twitter meltdown , drugs on his tour bus and an insensitive message written in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House are some of the lowlights.