トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「The semi-sacred ‘third gender’ of South Asia ( @shahria_sharmin) (By Fiona Macdonald 2017 @bbc) “I feel like a mermaid. My body tells me that I am a man but my soul tells me that I am a woman. I am like a flower, a flower that is made of paper. I shall always be loved from a distance, never to be touched and no smell to fall in love with.” Heena, 51, (9) is a hijra: a term, according to Bangladeshi photographer #ShahriaSharmin, that has “no exact match in the modern western taxonomy of gender”. Sharmin [was] chosen by @magnum for...her images of hijra communities in Bangladesh and India. “They are often mislabeled as hermaphrodites, eunuchs, transgender or transsexual women in literature,” Sharmin tells BBC Culture, arguing that “hijras can be considered to fall under the umbrella term transgender, but many prefer the term third gender”. She describes hijras as people designated as male at birth but with feminine gender identity, who eventually adopt feminine gender roles. When Mohona (29) turned 10, identifying as female, her father locked her up for three years to hide her. She broke out and eloped, ending up in Delhi (Slide 8) Sharmin’s images are deeply personal portraits – often revealing a level of intimacy that can be difficult to reach between photographer and subject. She refers to the process of taking their pictures as “slow and time-consuming”, explaining: “I never rush. Normally I spend considerable time with a particular subject and most of the time I don’t even shoot. I hang around with them for the whole day.” Poppy (47, left) and Kesri (45, right) left their families years ago, but they have found a friendship that is close to replacing unconditional love (slide 1) For many hijras, that community has come to replace their family – and it has a defined group structure. “Hijras have developed a culture where they live under a guru who provides them with social safety, shelter, and basic necessities in exchange for money and in some cases, recognition,” says Sharmin. “They start to nurture a family with a leader almost like a sorority house. Their daily earnings are all collected by the guru who then provides them with their necessities...」8月14日 22時55分