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Jan
13th
2012

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Excerpt from the D’Lo interview

In another piece, D’Lo embodies the character of his mother Amma, wearing traditional Sri Lankan clothing. Amma talks to the audience about having a daughter who is transgender, an extra challenge that compounds the difficulties she already faces being an immigrant in a foreign country. The monologue addresses the additional pain she feels from “losing” D’Lo as a daughter, when she has already lost another daughter in 1991 to a plane accident. The performance concludes: “D’Lo may not be my daughter anymore, but she is my child. I must love her.”

(Source: asiapacificarts.usc.edu)

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Tagged: d'lo, gender, transpositive, transpeople, poets, performance art, desi, artist, .
  1. rnbrucker reblogged this from brownpeople and added:
    D’lo is amazing and everyone should check him out! He was at the Po1 conference this year and this segment of his show...
  2. brownpeople posted this
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