Title
Notes From the Chrysalis: Feminine Beauty, Gender Transition, and My Attempts at Untangling the Two
Document Type
Healing and Empowerment
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
In this creative essay, Eden explores the common metaphor of the transgender butterfly as a way of interrogating the broader cultural myth of transition and trans identity. Primarily through personal reflection, she argues that feminine metamorphosis is a poor and harmful understanding of trans identity and that transition is much more like Falling in Love than it is a metamorphosis.
Recommended Citation
Duley, Eden, "Notes From the Chrysalis: Feminine Beauty, Gender Transition, and My Attempts at Untangling the Two" (2022). Race, Gender, and Sexuality Symposium. 16.
https://aquila.usm.edu/rgss/16
