Shon Faye on love and relationship as a trans lady – podcast

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Shon Faye on love and relationship as a trans lady – podcast

Shon Faye, creator of Love in Exile, shares her experiences of looking for love: from a trans teen who thought themselves unworthy of affection, to a celebration lady in her 20s – and now, a girl with a deeper understanding of what actual love is. She tells Hannah Moore how recovering from alcohol habit helped to reframe her understanding of affection.

“I began to consider this concept of affection and romantic love being an antidote to this deeper feeling of being unlovable, and the way a lot of that had most likely been the fallacious foundation to hunt out romantic love to start with, though I feel so many people do.”

Shon tells Hannah what she discovered in her first severe relationship, her time on relationship apps, and her time writing her recommendation column, Expensive Shon, for US Vogue.

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