Through The Looking Glass

Summer, 2019

FIGHTING TO BE SEEN CAN MEAN CONTENDING WITH BEING MISHEARD. FORTY YEARS AFTER AN UNPRECEDENTED PLAYBOY INTERVIEW, THOMAS PAGE MCBEE EXAMINES DESTRUCTIVE TRANS NARRATIVES AND FLAWED FRAMEWORKSIn 1979, famed composer Wendy Carlos came out as trans in the pages of this magazine. This was no small thing. By the time she sat down with journalist Arthur Bell for the Playboy Interview, Carlos had won three Grammy Awards for her 1968 synthesized take on Bach and scored Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Ora...