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!

Studying Masculinity

Take a look at this google book about gender from a male feminist perspective. It is a google book and contains the first 30 pages of the book. I highly recommend the preface and the introduction. I do not know if Kimmel identifies as male feminist, but I definitely consider it a continuation of the [...]

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 [...]

What I have learned about the ‘male’/'female’ binary

I journeyed through a series of genders recently. Now I am catching my breath. I identify as a gender-variant queer. That does not box me in, but expresses that I am actively playing with the prohibitions and technologies that create the male/female binary. It also says that I am part of the queer movement. The [...]