New blog - Drag Face: exploring my identity through masculine performance

The AboutFace project opens up the complex world of ethics, emotions, economics, politics and appearance in which face transplants take place.

Funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to historian of emotion Dr Fay Bound Alberti, AboutFace is the first major interdisciplinary project to consider the meanings of face transplants as surgical and psychological processes. They work with extended surgical teams, patients and families, institutions, organisations and policy makers to evaluate the impacts of face transplants on patients, medical practitioners and donor families, and how the media representation of face transplants influences policy and opinion.

I was commissioned to write about changing appearances, gender expression and identity for their blog and research project.