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Re: Rosa Kwir 🏋️
14 June 2021 | 17:41 | 13 KB
From: Gian Cuschieri <******@********>
To: roxman@rosa-kwir.com
Hi Rox,
Please find my answers marked below in Blue
1. In your opinion what does it mean to be a man?
For me being a man means everything. It doesn’t mean because I am a man means I gained more than being a woman however I gained confidence in myself to overcome certain fears which now became past for me.
2. What does passing mean to you?
Passing for me was everything back in the days when I had no beard. Today I have no issues as people wouldn’t know my birth gender unless I disclose it.
3. Is it important for you to pass? why or why not?
Before it was a constant battle to prove who I really was., therefore passing was utterly important.
4. Do you think it is important for us to challenge, and change aspects of masculinity that are problematic?
Depends in which situation
5. Would you tell me more about the tattoo on the back of you and your mum ?
The tattoo of my mother is a memory of her happy days, which I am planning to do a recent one since that got a little ruined since I did not take care of the tattoo. With it, I feel the protection of my past mum. Under her picture, I tattoed the serenity prayer which basically sums up all her 31years of teaching towards life.
6. You mentioned to me that you’d like to be photographed in a gym because that is an environment that you could call home somehow, due to covid reasons we couldn’t really shoot in an indoor gym but luckily we managed to find somewhere outside=). So what do u like about the Gym, why is it so important to you ?
At the gym, lifting up weights, I feel at home. I feel I can show empowerment. It’s also a place where I release all my stress.
Gian Cuschieri
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2021, 16:43 , <roxman@rosa-kwir.com> wrote:
Hello Gian
Kif ahna?
sending you consent forms in an other email here are some questions I’d mentioned I’d send over to you the other day no pressure in answering all questions, only those that you are comfortable in answering
1. In your opinion what does it mean to be a man?
2. What does passing mean to you?
3. Is it important for you to pass? why or why not?
4. Do you think it is important for us to challenge, and change aspects of masculinity that are problematic?
5. Would you tell me more about the tattoo on your back of you and your mum ?
6. You mentioned to me that you’d like to be photographed in a gym because that is an environment that you could call home somehow, due to covid reasons we couldn’t really shoot in an indoor gym but luckily we managed to find somewhere outside=). So what do u like about the Gym, why is it so important to you ?
That’s all for now Gian
Have a good weekend
Roxman
xx
