The Bagel is a cross between the Beagle and the Basset Hound. Though not as popular as some of the more well-established mixes, the short-coated Bagel has the loving personality one would expect from two Hounds, plus the potential for some stubbornness.

She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation ….

Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.

Much the same could be said for the drummer Gerald Cleaver, who brought a lot of color and soloistic ideas into his steady time.