| Breaking Free: 45 Years In The Wrong Body Contributor(s): Greer, Dawn Renee (Author), Laramée, Joelle Circé (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798566010823 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Lgbt |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.78 lbs) 260 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Circ ( pronounced (seer-say ), this is how she prefers to be addressed regarding her art. She is a queer feminist, as well as a very atheist woman of transsexual origin. Circ is from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her art is informed and guided by everything in her life. Certainly, what comes across most is her feminism, her woman's view, and her love of all things woman. Circ studied at a private Art School in Montreal for a few years, but otherwise self-taught. She brings her unique view and understanding of the world to her art. For her, creating erotic, queer, or feminist pieces have one thing in common - they express her admiration and love for women in general. She represents women in very vulnerable states, as well as at their most powerful, revealing the many places that women may find themselves at various times in their lives. She was inspired to create a series of vulvic paintings immediately following her transition. She looked at the world around her, from a completely different position, she realized there wasn't much representation of vulvas out there. Through her work, Circ celebrates her sisters and denounces abuse and violence committed toward women. She set out to show that women's bodies are a celebration of strength, power, beauty, while also revealing their soft vulnerability, powerful in itself.Today, she lives a calmer quiet life in Sainte-B atrix, Quebec, Canada with her Butch wife and five cats. After a lifetime of coming to terms with birth in the wrong body, she has come to a place that feels right, both as a woman and as an artist.Circ 's art has been showcased in the Feminist Art Conference in Toronto, Canada, The Femail Project in Birmingham, U.K., at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Soho, New York, and many other venues. |