Shapeshifters Jenna Lyn Albert replete with portraits of beer

replete with portraits of beer drinkers and hellraisers and urban landscapes

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where Aaron—who has repeatedly been denied appropriate gender-affirming medical care from the mainstream system—undergoes a near-fatal procedure performed by an unqualified and eccentric recluse who lives on the outskirts of Saltus

Shapeshifters Jenna Lyn Albert replete with portraits of beerDescription In Shapeshifters, Dlani Valin explores the cost of finding the perfect mask. Through a lens of urban Mtis experience and neurodivergence, Valin takes on a series of personas as an act of empathy as resistance. Some personas are capitalist mascots like the Starbucks siren, Barbie and the Michelin Man, who confide the hopes and frustrations that lay hidden behind their relentless public enthusiasm. Others include psychiatric diagnoses like