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: Transgender (Mayhem Vs. Introspection)
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I discovered Girly on the Holy Titclamps web site's Queer Zine Explosion zine review list (so many great zines to sift through here!). What got me hooked on this zine is the writer's ("a bisexual nihilist drag queen") views on gender and (many may argue that there should be a pronoun here, but I am not including one with respect to the writer and creator of this zine) disapproval of the societal pressure of having to adhering to one side of the binary gender system. Right on! Overall, good writing, critical thinking, and humor. This zine will revamp and shake up your gendered existence. Don't get caught in the trap!
Girly
Manifesto #1 GIRLY is NOT expressing its "feminine side", masculine and feminine are prescriptive and stifling concepts; fuck gender, forget gender. Masculine and feminine are powerful ideas, but their days are numbered. In the future we'll be "people" and we'll live however we want to (subject to the usual strictures of capitalism I suspect). Just because I don't want hormones or surgery doesn't mean I'm "just" a drag queen or a cross-dresser (don't you love spontaneous self-regulating hierarchies?). I am transgender and wish I could just live my life the way I want, wear what I want every day, without worrying about employment, harassment etc. Am I "Gender Dysphoric"? Maybe I don't believe in that either, but I'm not really sure yet. As it is I guess a lot of people assume I'm gay if I'm visibly different to them, and I don't mind that, but if they could see further than their own misconceptions they'd see me, transgender inbetweeny me, and eventually they'd get used to the idea. |
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