Huxtable also revealed that she planned to quit soon, and the two seized on the idea of reclaiming the space that oppressed her during the daylight hours.
"These organizations are large and they don’t always encompass the issues they’re fighting for,” he said. Mac was shocked by her story but not surprised.
During a brainstorming session, Huxtable told Mac about some of the disturbing, traumatic, racist, and transphobic attitudes she encountered at her job at the ACLU, where she worked as a legal assistant with the racial justice program. Two years later, they agreed to work together on another series. They soon met up for coffee and, shortly after, collaborated on several photographs of Huxtable in her home, as part of Mac’s ongoing Bedroom Series, which began in 2011 and features queer artists and writers in their personal spaces. Mac and Huxtable first crossed paths in 2011, at a house party in Bushwick. "I started documenting other trans artists because I was tired of seeing disembodied body parts and scars hanging on the walls in museums and galleries and feeling like shit when I saw it,” Mac said. In 2009, he founded Original Plumbing, a quarterly magazine focusing on the experience of trans male culture. Over the course of several evenings, the two snuck in suitcases of clothing, light kits, and equipment.Īs an artist and a creative, Mac centers on reclaiming trans bodies in his work. "Creepy, exciting, and a little weird” is how Amos Mac, a Los Angeles photographer, describes slinking into the American Civil Liberties Union offices in Manhattan late one night in 2013 to shoot the artist and musician Juliana Huxtable, who worked there at the time.
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