Leo T. Watts

Art and Change Grant

2009/ $2,500

Neighborhood: Northeast Philadelphia

Change Partner: Lonnie Grant

Discipline: Visual Arts ,Literary Arts

Leo will follow the lives of 5 female to male transgender people of color who have been on hormone therapy for five years and beyond as they navigate their professional, personal, and social lives. Documenting these vital experiences on video will capture the emotional development directly related to hormone therapy and the shift in day-to-day life perception as a male of color.