Inside, the warmth was immediate. An older woman with silver-streaked hair and a nametag that read “Marta” looked up from a stack of zines. Marta was a trans woman who had survived the AIDS crisis, the ’90s purges, and the quiet, grinding poverty of being visible when visibility was a crime. Her eyes, sharp and kind, took in the slump of Alex’s shoulders.
: The god of the annual flooding of the Nile. Hapi is often depicted with both masculine and feminine physical traits, such as a beard and pendulous breasts, symbolizing the fertility and life-giving nourishment provided by the river Agdistis (Greek/Phrygian) shemales+gods