TransNation: Doubly Triggered

GayWired.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall

Visual artist Georgette Freeman titles her current exhibit, Up From the Depths: Triggered. When I reach the sixty-one-year-old artist by phone in the same 275-square-foot San Francisco apartment she’s resided in for 33 years; she suggests, “We both know the word triggered. Mine was retirement. What was your trigger?”

When Freeman talks about things surfacing and about awareness – and actions – being triggered by significant life events, she’s speaking not only about her transgender identity but also her creative spark.