Naudline Pierre, 'Too Much, Not Enough,' 2019 2020. Oil on canvas, 60 × 40 in.
For as long as I could remember, I wanted to be a girl. Even before I knew what it meant to be a girl, what a girl even was, I wanted it. I wanted to be pretty and to be adored in the way that only femmes could be adored. When you see a beautiful femme, it feels like getting a glimpse of a god or a fairy in the woods. It feels like they know something more. That mysterious energy—maybe it’s pheromones or . . .
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