They see female significance, or a color aspect, and it spells amateur. Now add in the trans aspect and it hooks damn near everyone’s bias. So I think I’ll be getting no around every corner too, for a while.
But the word no, is funny. Rejection grows you, and the growth is multilayered.
It’s given me insight around the nature of bias and people’s reaction to a thing that disturbs them in the most microscopic but also in some larger ways (institutionalized bias). And let me tell you, that is its own study. Now whether or not, all that translates into anything interesting for a viewer, depends on my defining an audience, then shaping a narrative from that cloth (it rests in my ability to create a soulfully impactful piece from that nugget).
Alright. Onward … into my sea of no.
Archaic Sugar 