This artist turned hundreds of death threats against Caitlyn Jenner into a masterpiece

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Real Transgender People Are Remixing Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair Cover
Real Transgender People Are Remixing Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair Cover


UK-based artist Conor Collins created something positive out of the extremely negative.

Collins, who was inspired by Caitlyn Jenner's "Vanity Fair" cover in July, logged onto Twitter to learn more. His inspiration quickly turned to disgust after he saw how many hateful comments had been made about her. The artist wanted to do something about this.

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While Collins was creating the rendition of the magazine cover, he says that he found it almost unbearable to research and write the tweets onto the canvas.

Collins told The Huffington Post: "To get through it I ended up working through half a bottle of whiskey and didn't stop working on the painting till the small hours of the morning... For every person who sees it another person is shown the persecution and real danger trans people face."

This rendition is especially poignant now because of the staggering number of trans people murdered this past year. Just this past weekend, transgender woman Tamara Dominguez was found dead after being run over by a black SUV in a parking lot behind a church. Dominguez marks the 17th transgender person reported murdered this year alone.

See more of Collins's art here, through his Instagram page:



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