Gender performativity

It’s true that gender is a complex idea that means something different to every person. But this doesn’t give us much of an idea about how queer genders are experienced by people. It's in every feminist’s best interest to listen and pay attention to trans people, so let’s explore some common ways gender is experienced by people in the trans community.

Alok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist. In their oral history, Alok describes growing up in College Station, TX, connecting with activists and artists during college in California and subsequently in New York, their experiences touring across the world as a performance artist, and their journey of navigating gender through poetry, activism and fashion. CW: Assault

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 17-April 27, 1997

(1 of 9) How Women Are Portrayed on Screen in the Top 500 Films 1. 30.8% of speaking characters are women. 2. 28.8% of women wore sexually revealing clothes, as opposed to 7.0% of men. 3. 26.2$ of women actors get partially naked, while 9.4% of men do. 4. 10.7% of movies featured a balanced cast where half of the characters are female... [click on this image to find a short video and analysis of sexual objectification in the media] Sources on slide 9.

Prisoners of war, ramblers, lipstick floozies at a transvestite hotel … our writer is transfixed by a show of ‘found’ photographs telling a secret history of cross-dressing

What gender? Meet the creatives manipulating their mediums and blurring the boring lines of male-female conformity

Elusive Muse features the work of photomontage/collage artist Hannah Hock

The artist Senga Nengudi was recently honored with dual retrospectives of her work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art and RedLine Gallery. The MCA featured the black and brown pantyhose of her long-running R.S.V.P. series, which was stretched, contorted, and knotted into abstract echoes of everything from hair and genitalia to masks and musical notation.

Drag king and gender activist whose performances and writing blazed a trail in feminist theatre and lesbian culture