FUCK YEAH, GENDERQUEERS
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Hello, world!
Good afternoon, Tumblr! I created this blog to showcase and celebrate the GQ community in all its forms. Here you’ll find photos, videos, articles, and ramblings all about genderqueerness (is that a word?). Submit your own, people! ;D
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The UK Census 2011. I’m objecting to this question, because there was no mention of anything other than binary sex.
Some people are actually biologically neither male nor female. Which box do they tick?
Thanks for taking this stand for trans* identified people!
I’ve just published an article at PracticalAndrogyny.com giving my thoughts on this matter and details of the answers given to me by the Office of National statistics before the 2001 and 2011 UK censuses:
http://practicalandrogyny.com/2011/03/13/united-kingdom-census-2011/
I hope you don’t mind that I used a cropped version of your photo in the blog post (linking back to your Tumblr).
Awesome article, and thanks for linking back. :) I’m reblogging in case anyone following me fancies reading the article, too.
People interested in this issue may also want to read about my gender-neutral title proposal.
Going to reblog this because it’s awesome. The more awareness that is spread, the less invisible those outside the gender binary will become. I’m emailing my MP right away. The gender-neutral title idea is absolutely wonderful, and I might adopt that myself. :D
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THIS IS MY FACE. I consider myself pangender but I like to present myself in a somewhat androgynous manner most of the time. Which is brilliant because I like hats, but also not so great because I’m not great at it.
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Made this in paint.
We are all family.
<3
Oh, and in case you don’t recognise them, left to right, top to bottom:
Gay/lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, genderqueer, pansexual, asexual, bear, leather. x3 -
The Codes of Gender
In this short documentary about gender as a ritualized cultural performance, communication scholar Sut Jhally talks about the late Erving Goffman’s analysis of advertising and applies it to the “contemporary commercial landscape” (TV ads, glossy magazines, billboards, etc.) You should watch it, it’s actually really interesting. Funny how there are so many aspects of advertising linked to the stereotypical “male” or “female” gender. It shows how seemingly trivial things - strength of the grasp of a hand, angle of the head, balance, facial expression - all weave together in advertising to form the socially accepted view of “Man = strong, powerful; woman = weak, submissive”. I’d recommend it to… everyone.
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Judging Books By Their Covers
I want to share this brilliant photo with you all:
“Judging Books By Their Covers” by TheLadyJester on DeviantArt: www.theladyjester.deviantart.com
When I look at this, I see many things. I see a beautiful piece of art, first and foremost. I see a person who is androgyne, or genderfluid, or maybe pangender or bigender. I see someone who has broken society’s gender binary in some way. I see someone being themselves, yet I see someone forced to hide. I see someone who could be hated for being the person they are, yet I see someone who could be loved for being a person they’re not. I see two people, yet I see one person. My mind quickly thought “oh look, someone dressed as a boy on one side and a girl on the other”, and that was when I realised how deeply the kyriachy has its claws in us. This is not a half-man, half-woman creature. This is a human being, being wholly the person they are, not some kind of gender chimera. This is a real soul, this is a valid identity, this is not strange and unnatural. This is human.
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Think Outside The Box - UK-based Campaign
Think Outside The Box is a UK-based campaign for and by those with non-binary genders. It aims to increase the visibility of those with non-binary genders as well as decrease discrimination. Currently they are supporting a campaign to acknowledge a gender-neutral pronoun. Here’s what their Facebook group has to say:
“”Male” and “female” - popular as they are - aren’t the only genders out there. Non-binary genders are any and all that don’t fit neatly and exclusively into one of these categories - hence Think Outside The Box! We’re a national campaign, currently in our baby stages, aiming to improve awareness and decrease discrimination, unthinking and otherwise, against people living outside the gender binary. We’ll be using this group to keep people up to date with activism and progress. See www.totb.org.uk for our (fledgling) website!”
The group’s here if you want to stay posted! Even if you’re not interested it’d be great to reblog this to spread the word around, or send it to anyone you think would be interested. Thanks!
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Sometimes I feel trapped in my body, but then I realise what’s trapping me is what society associates with my body, not the body itself.
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A blog to celebrate all things transgender, third gender, male, female, neutrois, neutral, genderless, pangender, genderfluid, polygender, androgyne and genderqueer in any way. Warning: contains copious amounts of genderfuck.
