MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
There weren’t too many people to look up to in mainstream media while growing up as female-to-male transgender, recalls Katastrophe.
The 27-year-old native of the San Francisco Bay Area says that even today media images are dominated by ”Jerry Springer” stereotypes and reports of the murders of transgender women.
”I think that it really sends a message to somebody who’s coming out,” he says. ”It’s hard to imagine what your adult life will look like.”
To deal with that struggle, Katastrophe turned to music and poetry at 17, and quickly found himself involved with San Francisco’s youth-poetry scene.