Today is London Trans+ Pride, a chance to unite against the injustices that trans+ people face across the globe. For some inspiring reading, see Nkgopoleng Moloi’s 2019 article for Elephant, shining a light on the unsung queer icon Kewpie, whose legacy has been preserved in joyful series of archive photos of her everyday life taken between 1960 and 1985. “Long before trans issues were openly discussed in [her native] South Africa and beyond,” writes Moloi, “Kewpie was complicating gender binaries in playful and assertive images that shed light on what it means to take up space in a hostile society, and demonstrate the power of defiance.”
