AMERICAN THEATRE: Years ago, I had a student, a brilliant and creative trans woman, who regularly wore full stacks of thin metal bangles on her forearms. It was a smart choice. In addition to being further evidence of her status as a fashion icon, she also had a surefire way of commanding my attention whenever her hand shot up to answer a question. The clink of the bangles indicated the urgency of her thought. I never want to seem intrusive to my students, so I don’t generally ask them about what they’re wearing, but to me those bangles seemed to be a statement. Their sound hitting her desk, or on her raised arm, proclaimed, “I’m here.”
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