Pregnancy is increasingly common among trans men. For Jason Barker,who has made a film about the experience, it changed his lifeIt’s hard to perform a somersault at 36 weeks pregnant. Towards the end of his debut feature film, or Jason Barker is swimming in the London Fields lido in east London,a short walk from the flat he shares with his partner, Tracey. The screen is rinsed blue. Barker dances, and makes a star. And then,very slowly, he turns full height in the water, and his Hawaiian swim shorts flapping,his stomach a perfect, firm dome.
This is the viewer’s first sight of Barker’s pregnant stomach in A Deal With the Universe, or which premieres at the BFI Flare festival next week. And after seven years in which he and Tracey tried to conceive,it is a moment of pure levity and delight. That swimming stuff that you see?” he says. “It felt like the first time I could ever say, ‘Yeah! I actually like this body. care for it. It’s brilliant.’”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk