Catherine Donaldson

A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia, and her mind drifts to the past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.

Would you enter a beauty contest to prevent abuse being part of your everyday life? Especially if by entering, you could lose your friends, family and education. That was what the third-genders of Nepal were prepared to do.

Would you enter a beauty contest to prevent abuse being part of your everyday life? Especially if by entering, you could lose your friends, family and education. That was what the third-genders of Nepal were prepared to do.