ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月26日 13時05分

During a 10-day Hindu festival called Mayana Kollai, transgender women in India transform into the deities they worship. The photographer Candace Feit (@canfeit) has spent the past 3 years photographing the ritual, which involves Indians who decide to live as kothis, also known as hijras, kinnars or aravani. Unlike #transgender people in the West, Kothis — who are born male and typically have male lovers — leave a conservative mainstream culture for an equally conservative subculture. Many reveal their identities as teens and are met with years of taunts, beatings and forced sex. But during Mayana Kollai, their troubles are distant, and they are revered by villagers. In Devanampattinam, a fishing village in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, some of the dancers @canfeit photographed slipped into trances so deep it appeared they might have fainted. @canfeit took this photo of Jehada Guru, shown here as the goddess Amman, preparing for the festival in March 2013. Visit the link in our profile to see more images.

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