ON TRANSNESS AND MONSTROSITY

Oleander Venzon
7 min readFeb 2, 2021
Arruda, L. (n.d.). Banner image [Illustration of a naked person wearing only glasses and socks sits with their legs splayed; staring in horror at their crotch as their skin cracks away like porcelain]. Retrieved February 02, 2021, from https://linoarruda.com/

“I do not know how many of us there are, but it seems to me that we seek each other out, magnetized by our monstrosity; our ugliness; our egregious failure to uphold womanhood or to embody manhood — magnetized by our disembodiment — dismemberment — the things growing out

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Oleander Venzon

he/him tme dyke // currently studying Womens Gender Sexuality Studies at CSULB, here are some old school essays i’m proud of