There Were No Years in the Years Before Shame, No First Stirrings of What It Meant to Yearn

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In response to
Andrew Devadason’s suture

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Marla Bendini (she/her/they/them) is a cross-disciplinary trans and non-binary artist working in painting, text, installation, sound and performance to articulate the infinitely faceted transgender experience on their own terms.