Among the rocks of their Caribbean archipelago, a group of trans artists and creatives in Puerto Rico have found their safe port. It is a harbor offering them safety and affirmation amid choppy waters. Both a natural resource and cultural construct, it has an appropriately reverential name: House of Grace. House of Grace was founded by María José, a transdisciplinary artist and activist, in the months after Puerto Rico was ravaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. In the midst of natural disasters and a global pandemic, when rains have flooded and the earth has been shaken, the dancers, performers and writers who make up the House have laid down collective roots, built trust and chosen one another. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Gabriella N. Báez—Magnum Foundation María José’s apartment door reads “House of Grace” in Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gabriella N. Báez—Magnum Foundation María José poses for a portrait in her apartment in Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto ...