(China Ink & quib/brush)

This is part of a portfolio-thing I've wanted to start for a long time dealing with gender topics; I'm very likely to call it "Monsters In Love". I also want to make some t-shirt designs relating to this for my FtM friends and other people.

There is a lot I could say about this but my mind is a little blank right now as I haven't slept yet (and it's 8am here in France...). Basically... Before I found out about the trans community here in France, I already identified myself as an animal person (therianthrope). However I've never related to the whole "werewolf folklore" as many therians do - after all, I'm not a wolf, and it may just be that. However the more I got to know the trans community, especially the FtM identities and such, the more I connected to the Freak identity I first didn't understand well. It may also be related to the fact I started taking testosterone and there is something fascinating in watching your body change and transform into something else, something Other and totally outside of society's binary standards about what a human body is supposed to be like. From that freak identity I started drawing parallels with monsters such as the werewolf archetype - as if transguys' bodies would be covered in fur like werewolves', for a concrete example. My image of the werewolf is more that of a gentle and misunderstood monster, albeit farouche, though. This is something I relate to very well, especially as a transboy.

So that's it. Trans bodies = freak identity = monsters = werewolf.
More to come when I get around to draw it.

All "Monsters In Love" concepts are ©2007 by Aloïs (myself).