Mimi Nadia Chenyao | Fake and Basic

Gender Identity

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Man with short black hair in blue dress standing within a giant picture frame against a blue sky

The Very Picture of “Normal”

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Man with long brown hair in white dress heading through gate of the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, PA

One of These Things is Not Like the Others

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Man with long brown hair in a green and white striped dress against a pink background

Why I Started Wearing Heels

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Man with short black hair in a purple polka dotted dress holding a Tinky Winky doll against a pink background

In High Praise of Tinky Winky

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Man with long brown hair in red dress against a mural that reads

The Lover’s Dilemma

Man with short black hair in red dress standing with his arms crossed in the LACMA Urban Light exhibit in Los Angeles, CA
Man with short black hair in red dress standing with his arms crossed in the LACMA Urban Light exhibit in Los Angeles, CA

All the Rage

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Man with long brown hair in a pink and white dress against a pink background

Sweetly Subversive: Feminine Aesthetic as Performance Art

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Man with short black hair in a black dress with cartoon boobs on it against a pink background

I Fucking Hate My Titties

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Man in a white dress with a white bow in his long black hair sitting in front of a pink geometric object

Gender Dysphoria Does Not Excuse Treating People Badly

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Man with long brown hair in white dress leaning off of a black semicircle fence over the ocean

If I Were A (Cis) Boy

Multiple reflections of a man with black hair in a blue dress in a hall of mirrors
Multiple reflections of a man with black hair in a blue dress in a hall of mirrors

“Am I Handsome?”: My Earliest Memory of Gender Dysphoria

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Man with short black hair in pink dress drinking out of a blue teacup in a pink marble mansion

Spilling the Gender Identi-Tea

Femme Visibility at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit

Mimi Nadia Chenyao | Fake & Basic
Mimi Nadia Chenyao | Fake & Basic

Too Girly to be Trans?

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