Genderqueer and Here in Cairo

Chrysalis.

That would be the title of a project through which I aim to document the lives of transgender people across Cairo - one interview at a time.

A work in progress, the idea came to me one Sunday morning in the middle of Qasr El Aini, a well known public hospital in Cairo and, for a fleeting few hours, host to one of the city's queerest gatherings.

Every first Sunday of each consecutive month, me and a number of other gender-queers congregated in a space seemingly designated for us, whereupon we were eventually bequeathed the "golden ticket" that would make our lives just a little easier.