Dehydrated androgyny soars high as ornate headdresses dance blithely among vividly obvious hues scattering bright orange romance infecting gender stereo doors with sprinkles of frivolous cues. A full house, three queens over two diamond jacks, painted by camera lens, as gender bends, away in android jones style gluttony - deus ex machina - breaking free of brains... Continue Reading →
How to Dress like a Man 101
Continuing the lists to help writers mess with gendered expectations, here are the items men are told to acquire in order to fit in. Yes, this came from a compilation of such lists for men and by men in 2021. You can use this idea to mess with the stereotypes though, add items from this... Continue Reading →
We Used to be Tomboys:
I read too much where the author changed the pronoun but little else when they could embody the experience of being outside the gender expectations of our Western culture. That then is the motivation. What will follow is a series of posts/chapters to share what I found. There will be lists in places, academic articles, personal stories and more.
Poem: I Am Safe Inside This Body
A new poem by the emerging writer, Spencer Jean from Montreal.
Magical Faggot as Cinematic Study Dez Deshaies
Original essay published by Foglifter Journal Volume 5, Issue 2. To continue reading, click here.
Creative Works – a suggested reading list
Coyote, Ivan. One in Every Crowd : Stories.[1] Perfect example of essays. Coyote is one to really dive into, mostly he writes essays as stories. His earlier work is online, performances etc and what I like is how that early body of work is simply being and not explaining. Bombardier, Cooper Lee. Pass with Care. [2]Great book on process... Continue Reading →
How to Create Ungendered Narrative Voices
On Ambiguity: The Genderless Narrator Workshop Outline 2/2019 Sex is biological. Gender is cultural. How do we reflect the difference between the two in our writing? Is it possible or are we so trained to classify each other by gender? I present the idea that unless we know how we are using gendered language unconsciously, we... Continue Reading →