4/12/18: How Spirit Mediums Blur Gender Lines in Southeast Asia

From April 12 to April 15, I had the opportunity to take over The Photographers’ Gallery Instagram page, sharing images from my archive as well as writings on past bodies of work. I chose to highlight selections from my “Transformations; Crossdressers and Those who Love Them” and “The Gender Frontier” books, as well as images of activists such as Sylvia Rivera and Vicky West.

TRANSCENDENTS: SPIRIT MEDIUMS IN BURMA AND THAILAND

Available on Amazon and other book stores

Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen
Essay by Eli Coleman, PhD
Preface by Zackary Drucker

DAYLIGHT BOOKS / NOVEMBER 14, 2017

“As a westerner, I will never understand or experience the mystery,
or the spirituality of mediums, or how they know things that I can never
know. They are otherworldly when possessed, impenetrable,
transgressive. I search for their spirits through my camera lens. I
watch and learn, and suspend disbelief.”

– Mariette Pathy Allen

Aperture Magazine
#229, Winter 2017

Available Now on Aperture

Future Gender
The Winter edition of Aperture magazine is a landmark issue

dedicated to the representation of transgender lives, communities, and

histories in photography. Guest edited by Zackary Drucker, the artist,

activist, and producer of the acclaimed television series Transparent,

“Future Gender” considers how trans and gender-nonconforming

individuals have used photography to imagine new expressions of social

and personal identity, from the nineteenth century to today.

12 x 9 1/4
inches
144 pages
978-1-59711-421-9

12/25/17: Christmas feature on Hyperallergic

Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Thailand and Burma features photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen of the gender variance of participants in spirit cults.

By Allison Meier

11/12/2017: Celebrating Gender Variance In Burma’s Spirit Cults

A photographer sheds light into the anthropological and sexological perspective of spirit cults in Burma and Thailand.

by Kelly Caminero

Pop-Up Exhibition & Book Signing
Dye Transfer Portfolio and the new book: Transcendents; Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand
December 14th, 2017
6 - 8 pm

Crossdressers and the photographer who loved them

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Solo Exhibition

Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand
and Transgender USA

Exhibition Dates, November 15, 2017 - January 2, 2018
The Fine Art Galleries at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
522 W Maple St., Allentown, PA 18101

Press Release

Tuesday, October 17, 2017
@The Boiler Room, Power Plant|American Tobacco Campus
Press Release