Gender Pending: December 2009

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Terms

Terms that may help you navigate:
Transgender: A general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to diverge from the normative gender roles.

Transsexual: A person who identifies with the "opposite" gender than the one they were assigned at birth.

Genderqueer: A catchall term for gender identities other than man or woman.

Genderfuck: Self-conscious effort in fucking with traditional notions of gender identity and performance.

Queer Aesthetic: A type of aesthetic that seeks to break down preconceived notions of the roles men and women play in society.

Most definitions are culled from Wikipedia. Wikipedia probably stole them from elsewhere. We attempt to give proper attribution to the source that Wikipedia took the words from.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Katie

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Megan

ambiguous is beautiful

beauty is ambiguous

Bonny

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

e e cummings

girlyfag?

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this poster. DOS stamped it because it is a gender identity. I (Bonny) personally think it is a gender identity as well, and when I thought of it (yes, it is my quote, the majority of the non-picture ones are actually my quotes, as otherwise we wouldn't have had enough material to put up) I actually imagined it as something happy, uplifting and childish with a question mark at the end. However, other people do not feel this way, and we can recognize this in hindsight.

What can I say? Maybe someday fag will be reclaimed in the mainstream as something celebratory, just like queer has, and this poster won't be construed as offensive anymore. Even queer hasn't really been reclaimed, as the older generation still finds it a derogatory term.

Until then, I apologize for the distress this has caused anyone.

-Bonny Guang, 12/16/09