Liberating Gender Presentation from Expectations: Quitting Eyeliner, Dresses, and Shaving
byI wore eyeliner for the first time in eight months as an experiment, and my eyes felt like strangers. At first, the whole idea…
Empowerment
Change Clothes & Go: Ry’s Words on Gender, Fashion, & Growing into Your Own
by*Feature photo on homepage by Tamera Bachelder Fashion is something so very personal to me. Growing up it was fashion that I felt restricted…
Dress Smart: dapperQ Academics
byInspired by “Black Dandies Fashion New Academic Identities,” our new series “Dress Smart” will be featuring masculine-of-center genderqueer and transmasculine dapperQ professionals and academics…
Feminine Masculinity: An Oxymoron?
byYou might know this line from Leslie Feinberg’s book Transliberation: “Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are…
Challenging the Delirium of Summer Dysphoria
by*Feature image via clararea.tumblr.com In St. Louis the temperature is boomeranging between the lower 80s and the mid 50s, and the hotter days have…
Dress Smart – dapperQ Academics
byInspired by “Black Dandies Fashion New Academic Identities,” our new series “Dress Smart” will be featuring masculine-of-center genderqueer and transmasculine dapperQ academics. “‘Stylin’ out.’…
Transmasculine Style: Dressing Braver Than You Feel
byA few months ago The Test Shot, a project I run with my friend LGW on transmasculine style, was interviewed by Rae Tutera here…