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Feminized: Aligning Your Inner And Outer Selves

Feminized: Aligning Your Inner And Outer Selves

Anita meets folks who've undergone facial feminization surgery as part of their gender confirmation process.

Embodied · Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao

November 5, 202134m 33s

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Show Notes

Anita meets folks who've undergone facial feminization surgery as part of their gender confirmation process. FFS is a set of bone and soft tissue surgical procedures that reshape the forehead, brow, jaw and more. They share what the surgery meant for them, plus a medical anthropologist helps unpack who gets to decide what femininity looks like.

Meet the guests:

- Emma Ward, songwriter, producer and community manager, shares her experience of facial feminization surgery

- Eric Plemons, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, discusses some of the history of this set of procedures and how we define a "feminine" face

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