Blackness in Transit: BGBM (Black Girl to Black Man), an ongoing photography project initiated in 2020, traces living in multiplicity, through the past, present and future.

The images are a claim to the agency to move with this multiplicity. In a society that denies the femininity of Black girls, there is a double resistance in claiming a Black girlhood, while asserting the ability, rooted in truth, and the will to grow into and create Black trans masculinity.

Through an invitation to be photographed in sites of significance from childhood, Bearboi creates space for an homage to the unique experiences of girlhood from the perspective of Black transgender men and masculine people. In this portrait series, memories and sites from the past are layered with images that simultaneously show navigation of the world as assumed cisgender men.

Blackness is the ever-moving puzzle piece of the cultural zeitgeist and Black trans people are some of the most crucial agents within it. Amidst the harm and violence that this hyper invisible group of people experiences every day, BearBOI intentionally highlights the experiences of Black transgender men and masculine people to a create space that can acknowledge their wholeness.