In 2018, Nicole Maines became the first trans person to play an explicitly transgender superhero on television. Fifty years prior, another trans femme quietly took on a role on the opposite side of the coin.
by Piper Bly
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleshia_Brevard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia_Nal
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064606/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108087/
https://theheroines.blogspot.com/2013/01/interview-with-aleshia-brevard-part-1.html
Piper Bly is a professional illustrator and underground cartoonist. When she’s not busy plowing away at her drawing board, singing dirges in the moonlight, or wandering throughout the United States, she can often be found tending to her ivies, frying up some biscuits, spending unreasonable hours in the gym, or floating above the Mississippi River at midnight, waiting for the tide to wrap her in its loving embrace and take her away. Her whereabouts are currently undisclosed. You, however, can find her at piperbly.com.
