gender
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Butchfemme
There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love. – Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider There is no such thing as gender. There are genderings. To gender, as a verb. One genders by echoing a history, intending futures and expressing pasts in… Continue reading
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Transitions #8
In trans women’s eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognised as female, a raw strength that only comes from unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.In a trans woman’s eyes, I see someone who understands that, in a culture… Continue reading
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Transitions #1
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue.- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Do you feel the earth beneath your… Continue reading
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Womaning
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. – Judith Butler, Imitation & Gender Insubordination Prop. 1: I am a woman. O glory, the creative nothing.… Continue reading
Fish In the Afternoon 