The transgender body in art: finding visibility 'in difficult times like these'

Amid bigotry and intimidation, transgender artists create images to empower their communities and normalize the myriad complexities of their experiencesCaptain Wright, one of the subjects in transgender artist Ria Brodell’s paintings, lived until his death in 1834 with Mrs Wright and an abundance of rabbits. They were “respectable gentlefolks”, according to Brodell’s extensive research. When Captain Wright died, his neighbors were astonished to learn that he had a body th