Saint Jasper the Queer

Sometimes photos organize their own meaning. I did not plan on a Byzantine halo, but I have one nonetheless.
I found all sorts of queer masculinity theory books at the library today. Yum!

What going on with Jasper?

I have stopped dressing very genderqueer. I am doing the colorful skinny jeans. my colors can be interesting, but I dropped the tights, jewelery and eyeliner. Maybe I needed a break, a place to land. Presenting as boy is soooo easy compered to breaking gender expectations. Dressing genderqueer is a form of gender activism, and [...]

Sissyphobia and Male Identity

Judith Butler says that homophobia is at the root of gender identity. Judging from my own experience, I would say that the root of boy identity and later ‘male’ identity is sissyphobia. I think I and other boys were subjected to a constant gender policing and institutional violence that instilled in us a terror of [...]

Jasper at Duboce Park

I like the purple and orange. I like the earrings. I like how it is over the top but I am not sure what it is saying or where it is going.

Jasper’s Brand New Skinny Jeans

I just got these jeans and am having fun with red. I find this outfit has a great degree of cultural ambiguity. In San Francisco it is ‘culturally intelligible’ as mission hipster with some gender ambiguity. If I leave my island of white middle-class progressiveness I notice a lot of disapproving but not phobic gestures [...]