{"id":1636,"date":"2015-04-25T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2015-04-25T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:38:08","slug":"ladies-of-the-place-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1636","title":{"rendered":"Ladies of the Place Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw these <a href=\"http:\/\/everyday-i-show.livejournal.com\/155667.html\">amazing photos<\/a> recently on Twitter of trans women in Paris back in the 1950s and was really taken by the style and atmosphere of the photos (another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintag.es\/2015\/04\/ladies-of-place-blanche-captivating.html?m=1\">link here<\/a>).  They&#8217;re really amazing, taken by Swedish photographer Christer Str\u00f6mholm around the Place Blanche district of Paris, near the Moulin Rouge. I&#8217;m going to sound like a big jet-setter here again but I&#8217;m actually heading over to BoundCon again in a few weeks in Germany, with a couple other stops including a quick stay in Paris, so these jumped out at me when I saw them.  It&#8217;ll only be the second time I&#8217;ve been over there but I&#8217;ve saved up since last year and I&#8217;m real excited and should have some fun new photos.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about black and white and the styles of the past though that we just can&#8217;t touch today.  When I see these photos I just wonder what the lives were like of these ladies.  Did they live full-time &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing they did but who knows? &#8211; and what did they do for a living?  Were they call girls, shopgirls, performers?  And what was it like being trans back in that time, in that city?  The photos suggest so much back-story and leave so many unanswered questions, beautiful and suggestive.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/place_blanche_01.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/place_blanche_02.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/place_blanche_03.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/place_blanche_04.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/place_blanche_05.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/place_blanche_06.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw these amazing photos recently on Twitter of trans women in Paris back in the 1950s and was really taken by the style and atmosphere of the photos (another link here). They&#8217;re really amazing, taken by Swedish photographer Christer Str\u00f6mholm around the Place Blanche district of Paris, near the Moulin Rouge. I&#8217;m going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ladies of the Place Blanche<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandra-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}