Nina Arsenault

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Nina Arsenault
Born (1974-01-20) January 20, 1974
Beamsville, Ontario
Occupation columnist, actress, sex-trade worker
Website
http://www.ninaarsenault.com/

Nina Arsenault (born January 20, 1974) is a Canadian transgender columnist, freelance writer, live artist, actress and sex-trade worker.

She was named Rodney at birth[1] and grew up in a trailer park in Beamsville, Ontario. She has two master's degrees.[2] At one point prior to her transition, Arsenault was an instructor at York University,[3] where she taught acting.[4]

She has said her moment of truth about who she was came in August 1996[5] and her transition was in full force around 1998.[6] By 2007 she had undergone over $150,000 in surgery during her transition,[7] financed through work in the sex trade.[4]

Arsenault wrote a regular column on transgender issues for 36 issues of fab, a biweekly Toronto-based LGBT magazine. Her last column was in early 2007.

She has appeared on the television series Train 48 and KinK, as well as the Showtime movie Soldier's Girl.

She had a well-publicized encounter with Tommy Lee where he flirted with Arsenault for some time before discovering that Arsenault was transgender, and subsequently left in a hurry.[8]

Arsenault appeared in a one-act play written especially for her by Sky Gilbert in November 2007 entitled Ladylike.[9][10] She is also in the process of writing her memoirs, to be called The Silicone Diaries[4] and has done a one-woman stage show by the same name.[5][11]

She appeared also in The Jon Dore Television Show, appearing the episode "Manly Man". She stated the reason why she does not want to remove her current genitals:

"I work as a dancer in a club that caters to men who like "transsexuals." They want us to have beautiful breasts, you know, to be sexy like females but they want that one thing to be different."
[12]

In 2010, she performed an autobiographical play entitled i was Barbie.[13]

In 2012, she performed for 40 Days and 40 Nights as part of the inaugural SummerWorks Live Art series in Toronto. For this performance, she spent 40 days undergoing a spiritual experience and opened the last 11 days to the public. As part of this performance, she spent two hours a night whipping herself while riding an exercise bike.[14]

She is the subject of the book Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault - An Unreasonable Body of Work, edited by Judith Rudakoff, published in April 2012.[15]

Quotes

Arsenault receiving the "Unstoppable" award at the Pride Toronto awards show 2007
  • "I've had sex with two professional athletes, a movie star, two TV personalities, the CEOs of two Fortune 500 companies, four guys who worked for the mob, a string of strippers, many male models, a bunch of body builders, loads of night clubbing suburban guys ... all of them straight."[8]

Luka Magnotta

Nina Arsenault claims to have dated alleged Canadian serial killer and cannibal Luka Magnotta around 2002.[16] Nina claims that Luka was obsessed with wanting to be famous, and that he made disturbing comments about injuring kittens when they dated. Nina believes that the murders Luka is alleged to have committed were done as a result of, and under the influence of, drugs.

References

  1. ↑ Carroway, Kate (2010-12-01). "Nina Arsenault". eyeweekly.com. Retrieved 22 April 2011. 
  2. ↑ Nina Arsenault. "Tranny porn saved my life". Fab. Archived from the original on 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  3. ↑ Nina Arsenault. "I thank God & Hugh Hefner". Fab. Archived from the original on 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Nina's Unstoppable! desire to be herself". Toronto Star. 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chris Dupuis (2009-11-06). "Nina Arsenault: Like you've never seen her before". Xtra. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 
  6. ↑ Column in fab magazine entitled: "A very shemale Xmas", stating her first tranny Christmas was in 1998
  7. ↑ Shinan Govani (2006-04-22). "My $150,000 body". National Post. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Shinan Govani (2006-01-31). "If she talks like a woman, but walks like a man...". National Post. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  9. ↑ Gary Smith (2007-11-13). "Ladylike". Hamilton Spectator. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 
  10. ↑ Paul Gallant (2009-11-11). "Life in plastic". Eye Weekly. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 
  11. ↑ Richard Ouzounian (2009-11-12). "Nina Arsenault's stripped-down Silicone Diaries". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 
  12. ↑ The Jon Dore Television Show - INTV w/ Nina the Transsexual
  13. ↑ Jim Rankin (2010-06-11). "Sexy transsexual Nina Arsenault on life, art and her penis". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2010-06-12. 
  14. ↑ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/onstage/article/1242213--nina-arsenault-presents-40-days-and-40-nights-working-towards-a-spiritual-experience
  15. ↑ http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4875/
  16. ↑ http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/06/07/luka-magnottas-ex-he-wanted-be-legendary

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