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Through work, I met with a trans woman who gave me valuable tips on how to get into transitioning as soon as possible. She told me that I could start voice therapy right away. That at VUMC I would have to wait in line for a very long time, but that I could also get my diagnosis through other legal ways. I registered with Tanya Schouten, where the queue to pre-intake was quite short at the time. I can’t imagine what that must be like, to be told you have to wait six years or more at VUMC. Even just one year as often in the alternative routes, seems insufferable to me.
Despite that short queue, I was very happy that I could already do something, because even in that short wait my impatience was enormous. After forty-four years of hiding under a mask I couldn’t wait to finally get repaired. I went to Barbara Goes for voice therapy. And I enjoyed singing oe- and aa- in all kinds of tones. Repeating phrases for articulation without changing my accent. And especially getting higher and higher. I already had a pretty high voice, so in less than a year, twenty-seven sessions, I ended up in the ideal tonal range for me.
Read on in Assesment & Transioning (en Serenity)
The weave Waiting consisted of 15*6 frames, both sides of the fabric photographed. I made the animation loops of exactly one second each time by photographing and sequencing the horizontal strip on both sides, with the specially woven-in cross two frames in a row stating the next second. The green fields I photographed first, and used later for the titles. Handwoven on 8 shafts with 8/2 cotton, and later embroidered (the titles). Number of images 234.
