HuffPost: Genderqueer & Trans Artists Breaking Down Barriers in Art

By Priscilla Frank

This week is Transgender Awareness Week, an initiative that aims to raise visibility of trans and gender non-conforming people and communities and acknowledge the issues they continue to face. Culminating with Trans Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20, which honors trans individuals who lost their lives to acts of violence, the week illuminates the unjust struggles so many endure simply because they’re being their authentic selves.

In conjunction with Trans Awareness Week, we’ve compiled a follow-up to our previous list of multi-disciplinary artists who identify as transgender, gender variant, genderqueer and gender failure. Through their practices, the following artists tell their stories on their own terms, attempting to change not only the landscape of contemporary art but also the future of how we understand gender and identity. They do this, of course, through making some damn good artwork that touches on feelings of estrangement, the concept of gender performance and the stories of marginalized voices….

#10 Malic Amalya

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/genderqueer-and-trans-artists_us_564cb45ae4b00b7997f87e3f