Would you like to feel as if you were a waterwoman? Are you a coconut-shopper? Do you believe you’ve had a bevy of brushes with crabs?
You might be destined to become Little Mermaid. You could be a huge one.
It’s possible.
As reported by The Associated Press, “mermaiding” subculture is making a monstrous splash.
The outlet profiles Queen Pangke Tabora, who’s made the transition to life under the sea. The former employee of an insurance company put on a pair and fell in love with them.
[I]It marked her entry into the world of water, where acceptance would be possible.
It’s a pressure-free province — so long as you don’t overly descend and implode your skull.
[Queen Pangke describes] the experience of gliding under water, half-human and half-fish, as “meditation in motion.” … “The world outside is really noisy, and you will find peace under water.”
It’s not the first time the aquatic creature has transformed:
For the transgender Filipina woman approaching middle age, seeing her legs encased in vibrant scaly-looking neoprene…was the realization of a childhood dream.
Photograph of the rock life:
“The feeling was mermai-zing,” [Queen Pangke]One morning, she said this while lying on her back in a fiery red tail at a sandy beach south of Manila. She now freedives and teaches mermaiding.
The siren song that Mermaiding sings of seduction is Mermaiding
Across the world, there are thousands more merfolk like her — at its simplest, humans of all shapes, genders and backgrounds who enjoy dressing up as mermaids. In recent years, a growing number have gleefully flocked to mermaid conventions and competitions, formed local groups called “pods,” launched mermaid magazines and poured their savings into a multimillion-dollar mermaid tail industry.
Despite the enormous volume of commerce that exists, it has been possible to lower the cost of conversion.
Mermaiding started out as a hobby. Most tails on sale at the time were made from silicone. They can weigh over 23kg (50lbs) and require a great deal of labor and lubricant. But over the past few years, the increasing availability of cheaper, lighter fabric options — some of which sell for less than $100 — has transformed the mermaiding community from an exclusive enclave for privileged professionals into an achievable dream for the wider public.
There’s particular appeal for those who think cisgenderism is all wet:
It is…inspiring to (transgender) merfolk like Che Monique, the Washington, D.C.-based founder of the Society of Fat Mermaids, which promotes body-positive mermaiding.
“I’m a 300-pound Black mermaid in America over 35, and hopefully that tells somebody they can do whatever they want to do,” says Monique, whose group sells shirts that read ‘Fat mermaids make waves’ and ‘Gender is fluid under the sea.’
Also, transspeciesism has become a trend in animal care. A barn can beat a bay for some people.
But for those who can’t definned defecating in a field, a bream-like back-end suits them fine.
What about the below? Could this community really be up to their gills in kinks? For those who know how guppies are made, surely spawning isn’t out of the question. Yet for many, it’s about identity — pre-mermaiding, life was a fish-out-of-water story:
Mermaid Nymphia was a female-presenting child in the 1990s. Gender norms thwarted her dreams of being Ariel, her favorite fairy, as she grew up. Her dream came true years later when she was an adult transgender girl and her mother taught her how to sew her first Mermaid costume.
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“With transgender and nonbinary merfolk, they often connect with that mentality where you’re not quite sure which world you belong in, but you’re able to be this alluring creature of the sea and live as your most authentic self,” Nymphia says. “I know a lot of people who have found their gender identity, myself included, through mermaiding.”
If you long to be a queen and a nymph then there are endless possibilities. You can become a reefer, or at least slither through the depths as if you’ve smoked some.
Perhaps it’s time to evolve…
“As transgender, it’s a transition,” [Queen Pangke] says. “It’s like in the sea, everything evolves.”
Everything, indeed.
-ALEX
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