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Topher recommends…
Queer Noir is an art blog that is produced by queer poet and performance artist Topher Cusumano. Queer Noir seeks to showcase the gritty, non-conformist, queer underworld through writing, visual art, and audio installation. With the help of his Trans-man best friend, Topher has created a safe haven for queer, feminist, gender-fucked, art.
A reader recommends…
In their own words Born This Way Blog is, “A photo/essay project for gay viewers (male and female) to submit pictures from their childhood (roughly ages 2 to 12), with snapshots that capture them, innocently, showing the beginnings of their innate LGBT selves. It’s OUR nature, our TRUTH!”
Although the emphasis is placed on sexuality instead of gender, the pictures submitted are almost entirely of cute children breaking free of their assigned gender roles in small or big ways.
Ant recommends…
This site is a good resource for younger men of color in transition. As well in general a learning tool for anyone seeking a better understanding of what happens during female to male transition. The information is very open and no holds are really there. You can tell as I speak with a lot of passion and thought. I’m very open to questions and would love to share my story with everyone :)
Ashley Aron and Erin Majestic Legay recommend…
Glitter Politic is self-love blown open. Glitter is an external expression of a unique and multifaceted light that shines within each of us. Harnessing that light and directing it outwards is extremely challenging in a world that makes it so easy to hate ourselves and each other.
By embodying a politic of glitter, we accept and perpetuate the radical notion that there is enough room for all of us to shine. We believe that by nurturing an ethic of compassion, kindness, and bad-ass love for ourselves, we can create space in our communities where love is not a limited resource. With a glitter politic, we are banishing the normative, oppressive, patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist ideology that the world isn’t big enough for all of our beautiful bodies, ideas, and voices.
The Quiet Jester recommends…
Well. I’m not entirely sure that you’ll love it, per se. But I do guarantee that it’s interesting. This is a very powerful, very eye-opening post that I stumbled upon and linked to my other friends. It’s very blunt, and-I think-perfectly captures what it really means to be ‘genderqueer’.
Here’s a snippet from the post:
“In typical trans 101 discussions, right now I would probably be explaining to you that “gender is a spectrum” and drawing a cute little line graph labeled “m” at one end and “f” at the other. But this would be fallacious, as well as total bullshit. Gender is not a line, it is a huge three-dimensional space too big to be bounded by the concepts of “male” and “female.” Being trans is not always about falling “in between” binary genders, and as often as not, it’s about being something too expansive for those ideas to have meaning at all.”
M recommends…
An interesting look at the writing and reading of LGBTQ characters in popular fiction.
Sally Sapphire recommends…
This is actually my event, so I’m a bit biased, but I’m hosting what I think is a really interesting, positive even – a Gender Identity & Expression Reading Challenge. My goal is two-fold: to get those of us in the community talking about books that speak to us and which we identify with (which is the fun and fabulous part); and to encourage those outside the community to take a chance, read something new, and hopefully develop a little more awareness and some understanding of the community (which is the educational part).
Juan recommends…
My blog promotes designers and creators of unconventional fashions for men. I also hope to encourage fellow-males (no matter what their sexual orientation may be) to wear skirts, high heels, jewelry, and other garments traditionally considered too “feminine” or “inappropriate” for men.
I think Genderfork readers would enjoy many of the images I’ve posted, so I’m inviting you all to pay me a visit.
Kat recommends…
Matt Kailey’s insightful blog is a great resource for those interested in transgender and transsexual issues. The website covers a wide variety of topics, from the links to the blog itself. It’s definitely worth checking out.
Oz recommends…
Wheelchair Dancer writes about queer sexuality and gender presentation with disabled bodies.
HeadlessWaltz recommends…
Rooster tails is a weekly autobiographical webcomic written from the point of view of transguy Sam Orchard as he is transitioning.
A reader recommends…
There are really not that many web resources out there about femme guys!
A reader recommends…
This is a somewhat long, but quite interesting, article written by a pansexual semi-cisgender woman about her struggles with her own gender identity, her relationship with her FTM partner, and the ways in which gender expresses itself in our subconscious. She discusses the ways in which gender is just one of many characteristics which differentiate us, and explains that to her androgynous sensibilities, it’s a rather insignificant characteristic.
Angela recommends…
This is a sewing blog I’ve been following, written by a man who’s been sewing for himself, his boyfriend, and his ‘cousin’ Cathy. In this particular entry he admits that he is himself Cathy, and he segues into a brilliant, casual, assured invitation to his mainstream sewing readership to consider gender deviance. He’s a superb sewist, and a smart, funny, talented blogger, and he’s encouraging people to think outside the lines. Plus he uses lots of vintage patterns! What more could you want?
XylophoneGender recommends…
Seattle based author/blogger Ariel writes & manages OffBeatBride. She tracked down S.Bear Bergman to give advice concerning “wedding suits for butches, transmasculine beings, and other festive gender-blenders.” She also posted about the wedding of queerfemme Aly and genderqueer Elroi in Atlanta, and was quick to amend the pronouns she used for Elroi once she learned that ze prefers gender-neutral ones in print.
P.S Amazing reader comment quoting a wedding pre-invite: “He was my girlfriend, then he was my boyfriend, and now he’s my fiancé, but he has been my true love all along. We would be honored if you would join us in celebrating our commitment to each other. Wedding invitation to follow.”
Erica (the photo curator) recommends…
More photos of the kind us ’Forkers love by photographer Allan Amato. I found this and other amazingness while perusing Coilhouse’s “gender” tag–which is pretty polygot but worth checking out, if only for the Soviet crossdressers.
Erica (the photo curator) recommends…
“We all have that one piece of our wardrobe that has seen so much, done so much for us, with us, against us. It has been there during the hard times and the good. It has seen us fat and thin and every shade between. It has laughed at us, supported us, held us. It might be an old brooch or a favorite pair of shoes, a scarf or a coat. I have a number of these, and this corset is one of them.”
Lee Harrington, “a guy who lived over 25 of his years as a woman…tends to get flack about being femme… if you transitioned, aren’t you supposed to be a man?” In “For the Love of Corsets,” Lee talks about his experiences donning his favorite corset after transitioning, the reactions he received, and how it fits into his current identity.
