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Pedro aka Strangelfreak recommends…
A photoshoot I made for a project on Non-heteronormative family units, in this case is Lorena who is an M2F trans, Claudia genderneutral (wearing my beard) and Filippo Putrefashion who is a genderfucker… I hope you like it.
A reader recommends…
I’ve admired Zhang Jigna’s (see also http://zemotion.deviantart.com/) photography for a long time. And I was especially taken by these shots of Daniel Landroche. The blog post has a (brief) interesting bit of commentary on different people’s conception of beauty. These photographs in particular stand out to me for capturing a kind of elegance we don’t often see associated with male beauty. These aren’t the images of stereotypical male strength or of dominance that most frequently make up our images of men.
identitytBD recommends…
JJ Levine is a Montreal-based artist who explores issues surrounding gender, sexuality, self-identity and queer space. In addition to pursuing a career as an artist, Levine gives “Lesbian Haircuts for Anyone” in a bike shop in Montreal’s gay village. Also check out the “Alone Time” gallery: http://www.jjlevine.ca/alone.html.
A reader recommends…
…because gender-fucking is hot! And maybe it’ll inspire some equally gender-fabulous photo series of famous male-assigned folks…
A reader recommends…
This is a neat set of pairs of photos where the two outfits in the picture stay the same, but the people wearing the outfits change.
Luz recommends…
When gender boundaries were being busted down, and androgyny was rampant and acceptable. Conversely there is also an ad for the first male operator who resembles ashton kutcher.
at&t wants girls that can climb and boys that can talk on the phone for hours
A reader recommends…
A short but well-written first person photo essay about being transgendered/androgynous.
A reader recommends…
A high schooler (now a recent grad, I think) decided to blog her way through an issue of Seventeen magazine, using tips and advice from it every day for a month. It was pretty interesting in and of itself. She noted the assumed homogeneity of the Seventeen reader (thin, “good” hair, etc.) not to mention the myriad other problems with teen media and decided to address the problem.
Now she is asking people to submit pictures of themselves with the prompt, “Hey Mainstream Media, I Am…” She has not decided what to do with the pictures yet, but wants to make them somehow visible to media execs. You do not have to be a teen or a girl, and I thought that the gender-variant, androgynous, and otherwise awesome readers of Genderfork would have some great ideas for submissions.
Erica (the photo curator) recommends…
A Flickr group combining my two favorite things: gender bending and high geekery. Be sure to check out the Princess Leia and Hellboy costumes!
submitted by Izzy, the photographer.
From the Photographer:
I did a photo series called Gender Outlaws a few weeks ago. The series primarily explored how body language and appearance choices and sex communicated gender (pro tip: only the first one really counts), but also touched on issues of what types of body language we associate with which genders, (like passivity and aggression), how race can play into the power dynamics, and lots of other things.
“Today, I feel beautiful” submitted by Sarah-Sophia, the model and photographer.
“I finally got a haircut to represent who I am: a genderqueer.
For the first time, I can call myself beautiful and mean it.”
“Color Me Love” submitted by Nny, the model and photographer.
“I’m a poly femme who sometimes gets called “Sir,” depending on what side of me my interlocutor is standing. I’m just starting to experiment with blurring gender boundaries. To me it’s all good. It’s all love. I took [this] especially for you, Genderfork! <3″
“Lost Boy” submitted by Robert Harper, the model and photographer.
“I feel like a little boy compared to the men around me. Even with (fake) facial hair, I feel like a kid playing dress-up. Not sure if I’ll ever grow up.”
“Rediscovery” submitted by Danielle, the model and photographer.
“I just cut all of my hair off the other day. It was originally down to my shoulders. Being bisexual i wanted to become something different. I keep on feeling like this person who doesn’t know what she wants. Cutting my hair was a really big step for me because this is one of my first steps to becoming something new and discovering the other side to my sexuality. I know it really doesn’t matter how long your hair is or how you dress that defines that, but now i feel like me, i feel good.”
“I am Manic” submitted by Jenifa, the model and photographer.
“Basically I feel like I have no gender. This is a photo of what is inside, I am not truly a man, yet I do not feel like a woman.
The ‘I Am Manic’ has many meanings , on one level it’s a ‘so I’m crazy in your eyes, so what.’ statement to those who would judge me in this photo. On another level it is ‘manic’ as in ‘Manic Depression’. “are you a boy or a girl?” “I am an artist.”"
“Patrick” submitted by Hannah, the model and photographer.
