I chose this blog entry, A Tender Portrait of the Third Sex in Bangladesh, because this is something that I have been studying a lot recently and I enjoy learning about and I also think that it is a very important topic that is not talked about nearly enough. I know that the gender binary and transsexuality is something that exists worldwide but it is not a topic that I have studied beyond domestically. I like that this was something that I could compare to what I already know about the topic to what is happening is Bangladesh and how this impacts their lives.
The photographer Raffaele Petralla went with a completely different direction of his work but his movement made him change that. After gaining the trust of the individuals he photographed, this allowed for him to be able to capture moments that can accurately represent what their lives are like. It stated that many people who identify as homosexual, transsexual and a transvestite often live together because they act as their own family since they are considered outcasts among the "norm" and I think that many of the photographs represents that notion of family. I also think more importantly that this work of Petralla clearly shows the distance these individuals live with and how they are outcasts from the general population in Mirpur-Ek, Bangladesh.
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