11 - 9 - 19  Photographed Jahmal in midtown studio in available light.  Always loved how it falls on the body of the person I am photographing.  Jahmal is 27 years of age, lives in Harlem is a professional, dancer and actor, very skilled, very artistic and very cool.  A beautiful soul that comes thru upon meeting.  Jahmal said, "I've had the pleasure of working both as a male and female artist. Very seldom am I recognized as the non-binary being that I am, whose gender identity does not fit into one or the other.  I simply am that I am."

11 - 8 - 19  Photographed Red today, who is 18 years of age.  He is a student and lives in Harlem with his family.  Very articulate about being non-binary.  These are Red's words, "to men, being non-binary means that I never identified with the ideas of traditional masculinity or femininity.  I've felt I've been forced to take them on, they tended to make my life miserable.  I've always been frustrated with the things I 'can' and 'cannot' do in terms of my gender at birth.. I've always loved make-up, nail polish and also liked cologne, suits and ties.  I liked playing with Barbies and action figures, love having a beard, feeling tough, but sometimes want to be treated like a princes.  I wanted out of the constraints that I found myself put in.  I don't like the iea of 'being a man' nor do I like the ideal of /being a woman' and find myself more comfortable in the middle, breaking the roles of both .  In terms of identification I'm still figuring that out.  I might be androgynous or maybe dem-boy.  If someone asks me I might say 'gender fuck' because it sounds cool, even though I don't identify with that term.

11 - 6 - 19  Sunny day in midtown at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. where I snapped pix of
Audric who is androgynous and is fine with all and anything, no labels.