Notes to me:
-I cut off my waist-length for a combination of reasons, one of which happened to be: I didn’t look gay enough according to my homosexual friends. LGBTQ discrimination.
-DJ(on myspace) gave me some ideas:
*a need(especially in the technological age) for a place focused on connection instead of individuality, where we can build a sense of community and bridge gaps between people, and their own thoughts and desires.
-Where is this topic stemming from for me?
Gender play seems to have always been a part of my life. I love to play up my femininity in an exaggerated fashion with the clothing I make, dream and design. I feel like when I’m playing with gender, deconstructing it, shifting the shape of my gender, redefining what it means to be womyn in a societal context as well as in my own life, I am creating gender. Within my own gender constructs, I am creating space for gender, as well as space for the fluidity of gender, methodology at approaching gender, a vocabulary to describe new gender and a place for change. I write my own myths and compose collective legends pertaining to my gender, even as I challenge the prominent myths of gender before me. This process of creation, allowing myself to dream, doodle and redesign myself provides empowerment for me and, I feel, a space for others to feel safe playing with gender.
Especially in situations that seem to be composed of life and death, profit and starvation, normal and freak dichotomies.
-create a dialog around gender construction and play and how that connects to activism and life in general. (social constructions of gender, weed and psychology)
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Where is this topic(gender play)coming from for me?
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