Archive for October 2007


bright


Bowie Ball 2007, originally uploaded by nahcnivek.

 


Posted by on October 31st, 2007 at 08:00 am

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anatomy


Androgyny, originally uploaded by artfulpurpose.

 


Posted by on October 30th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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jeweled


nancy boy 2, originally uploaded by signora oriente.

 


Posted by on October 29th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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opera


Peking Opera performer applying make up, originally uploaded by Jon Bower.

 


Posted by on October 28th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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smudged


androgyny, originally uploaded by _perséfone_.

 


Posted by on October 27th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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stream


untitled [Day 4], originally uploaded by Silber aus dem Nichts.

 


Posted by on October 26th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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sculpted


cigarette, originally uploaded by machinedance.

 


Posted by on October 25th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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little girl


A portrait of the young lady as a young man., originally uploaded by I Feel Toast.

 


Posted by on October 24th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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Broad (smile)


sahara02, originally uploaded by Kabir ChaoPhray.

 


Posted by on October 22nd, 2007 at 08:00 am

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Body Double


duel duality, originally uploaded by mimsmash.

 


Posted by on October 21st, 2007 at 08:00 am

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If Gender is a Venn Diagram, My Gender is the White Board


I’ve been struggling with a riddle in the values of my upbringing:

“Men and women are equal.”

“You can be whatever you want to be and do whatever you want to do when you grow up.”

“You will probably be more successful than most men, and that’s okay.”

“Times have changed. Women can do whatever they want now, just like men.”

“There’s no difference between men and women anymore.”

They’re fabulous mantras, and I believe in them. The intentions behind them have carried me far. But when I come across double-standards, sexism, and gendered power struggles in “the real world”, the Upbringing Values voice in my head short-circuits and starts yelling, “La! La! La! I can’t hear you!”

I think this is a common experience for women today.

My experience goes a step beyond this, however. Continue reading »


Posted by on October 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

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Gloss


day171 :: MAN! I feel like a Woman!!!, originally uploaded by MeLa de Gypsie.

 


Posted by on October 20th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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Two-Spirit


Untitled (Two-Spirit), originally uploaded by Maros R..

 


Posted by on October 19th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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combed


, originally uploaded by Joseph Robertson.

 


Posted by on October 18th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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pre-transition


School Photo, originally uploaded by Transguyjay.

 


Posted by on October 17th, 2007 at 04:05 pm

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eunuch


eunuch in the palace of Beijing, originally uploaded by petercat1976.

 


Posted by on October 17th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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smooth


genderbending, originally uploaded by kellybang.

 


Posted by on October 16th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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Mix and Match


Writer Lori Selke recently blogged the following about her gender identity:

I promise, I am not going to be offended by any way you choose to describe my gender. In fact, I am mostly over it at this stage in my life. I make up answers whenever anybody asks me. I invent new genders on the spot. Why not? You all have that freedom, too. I grant you permission to describe my gender any way that makes sense to you, and I will continue to call myself anything that I feel like, and express my gender or genders any darn way it occurs to me to do so at the moment.

Right now, my gender is “mix and match.” “Mannish woman” will also do. “Genderfucked” is fine as well. “Gender euphoric” is charming me at the moment but may seem to cutesy tomorrow. “Butch” is always OK but also always feels incomplete. And so on, and so forth.

What all this means: I definitely see myself (and, I think, anybody who knows me can also see this pretty quickly) as a chopped salad (not a blend) of gender attributes, listing toward the masculine more than most folks born with my sort of body tend to, but only up to a certain point — I would be a very feminine man, you see, had things gone another way. I would be a shy nerdy bookwormy sort regardless.

Also, I like gender as a playground, and I like making up games to play on it. So “gender playful” might work, too.


Posted by on October 15th, 2007 at 09:47 am

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backstage


haustier, originally uploaded by caeriel.

 


Posted by on October 15th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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Stare


, originally uploaded by chattycathy7575.

 


Posted by on October 14th, 2007 at 08:00 am

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