Tag Archives: gender
From the Archives: “My Hair Trauma” (1998)
We received a request for a piece I wrote over ten years ago, from my time in the “olden days” of what we oldsters once called “web journaling.” It’s hard to read some of my old writing without cringing (as … Continue reading
Filed under (AD)DRESSING GENDER & SEXUALITY, FASHIONING RACE, ON BEAUTY
GENDER/QUEER: “Dressed To Kill, Fight to Win”
Dean Spade is a genius activist lawyer and legal scholar. (For instance, he is the founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are … Continue reading
Filed under (AD)DRESSING GENDER & SEXUALITY
GENDER/QUEER: “The oldest queer girl story in the book”
“Clothes are more than a little fraught for me,” writes Krista Benson in the preface to a post that addresses some provocative, pertinent absences in fashionable discourses in new media (or what might cringingly be called the blogosphere). Bringing up … Continue reading
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Queer Feelings, Gender Presentations
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting links and excerpts from other blogs on questions of queer and non-normative gender presentations. I’ve mentioned before some of my own concerns about the unreliable stories clothes tell, and in recent sweeps … Continue reading
On The Politics of Vintage, Starting With a Series of Thoughtful Epigraphs Before I Begin My Own Ruminations on The Topic
The following paragraphs are excerpts, authored by others, which might offer us (a collective us) an initial entry point into weighing the politics of vintage. The first comes to us from Catherine and her blog Renegade Bean, from a post … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, VINTAGE POLITICS
PUBLICATION: Monica Miller on Slaves To Fashion
Duke University Press’s new release, Monica Miller’s Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, promises to appear on all my future syllabi, no matter the course. Read Miller’s illuminating essay about the book’s core concepts … Continue reading
Handbagging (from lipstickeater)
The daily routines that are inhabited easily by some bodies (choosing clothes, shoes, lip color) are for others acts of political and ideological significance, an archive of complicated feelings. Pulling on a pair of jeans or seamed stockings meant for … Continue reading
