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I like being able to choose. I like being able to put my gender on with my clothes in the morning, take it off at night, change it during the day, shift my voice and hands between the mechanic and the art supply store and have my public face just the way I want it. There is an ineffable comfort in having a body that is as much a shapeshifter as my brain is, a gender that leaves me so many options for education and helping and flirting — my favorite things. And though I am sheepish about wanting something so self-serving, I also want to play. I want to have my way with gender before it has its way with me, lead it around by the shorthairs, tease it, and then do — and have — exactly what I want anyway, each and every time.
S. Bear Bergman, Butch is a Noun, pg. 47 (via wakingisbravery) (via genderqueer) (via fivethirtytwonm) (via glitterbombing) (via loveandzombies)
please & thank you.
(via randyhate)
Source: wakingisbravery
Originally performed by the Queer People of Color Liberation Project: Within on Sunday, August 27, 2006 at the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Theater.
Putting the fun back into gender identity!
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“Excuse Me Sir”, a video from Q-Roc TV about stereotypes of Masculine Identified Lesbians. Check the video out, and see more from Q-Roc HERE.
Source: thegang
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Defining Genderqueer →
Also found under the Transgender Umbrella—besides Transsexuals—are Genderqueers. As defined by Wikipedia Genderqueer is a “catchall term for gender identities other than man and woman. People who identify as genderqueer may think of themselves as being both male and female, as being neither male nor female, or as falling completely outside the gender binary. […] Genderqueer people are united by their rejection of the notion that there are only two genders…” Since Genderqueer has such an open-ended definition I decided to interview six people from different backgrounds to learn what being Genderqueer (or even toying with idea) means or has meant to them.
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Tejal Shah is a visual artist working with video, photography and installation. Her work, like herself, is feminist, queer and political. She has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and film festivals, and in 2003, she co-founded, organised and curated Larzish – India’s 1st International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Plurality.
The work above entitled “Trans-” in collaboration with Marco Paulo Rolla is “centered around trans-…formation, mutation, figuration from one gender to its opposite.” The two try to communicate and make possible a reflection about the exploration of the ascribed opposite gender behaviour as a possible affinity for a human sexual being. Does our gender appear as what we feel it to be? Many times people can’t realize who they would like to be: which kind of behaviour, sexuality, gender orientation or style of dressing.
When displayed, each channel is a vertical screen, where the two faces are looking at themselves, the audience or the mirror. A man and a man, a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, crossing their original gender, making a transsexual looping.
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The artist Zanele Muholi.
‘Sex ID Crisis’
2003
From the ‘Faces and phases’ series, 2007
From Zanele’s artist statement-
‘This is a time for a visual state of emergence. The preservation and mapping of our herstories is the only way for us black lesbians to be visible. The textualisation of our cultures is not sufficient but historicising is not impassable. It is for this reason that I embark on what I call visual activism. My work is about observing and taking action. I take pictures of myself and other women to heal from my past. ?…It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.’
‘I have seen people speaking and capturing images of lesbians on our behalf, as if we are incapable and mute. I have witnessed this at Gay Pride events, at academic conferences, in the so-called women’s movement forums. Research opened my eyes even wider than the lens, and it made me feel autonomous. I refused to become subject matter for others and to be silenced. Many have exiled our female African bodies: by colonisers, by researchers, by men. Sarah Baartman became a spectacle for Europeans, and she died in a foreign land. She was never given a chance to speak for herself. ?…It is for this reason that I say No, not yet another black body’.
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