Editing Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

{{Infobox person
| picture=Genesis_P-Orridge_with_Throbbing_Gristle.jpg
| caption=Genesis P-Orridge performing with Throbbing Gristle in 2009.
| date_birth=22 February 1950
| place_birth=Manchester, England
| date_death=14 March 2020
| place_death=New York, New York, USA
| nationality=English
| pronouns=s/he and h/er<ref name="Hoby">{{Cite web |title=The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge |last=Hoby |first=Hermione |work=The New Yorker |date=29 June 2016 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-reinventions-of-genesis-breyer-p-orridge}}</ref>
| gender="not male or female, not either/or — just complete"<ref name="Michael">{{Cite web |title=Genesis P-Orridge: Stormtrooper of the Future |author=Michael, Michael Love |authorlink=Michael Love Michael|work=PAPER |date=29 March 2019 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://www.papermag.com/genesis-p-orridge-transformation-2633161174.html}}</ref>
| occupation=musician, poet, performance artist
| known_for=
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'''Genesis Breyer P-Orridge''' was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist who rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridge was also a founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth occult group, and fronted the experimental band Psychic TV.

P-Orridge and h/er lover Lady Jaye Breyer, who met in 1993, both underwent several surgeries "that would become an artwork merging them into a joint being called a 'pandrogyne.'"<ref name="Earnest">{{Cite web |title=S/HE IS (STILL) HER/E |last=Earnest |first=Jarrett |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=2020 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://brooklynrail.org/2020/04/in-memoriam/SHE-IS-STILL-HERE }}</ref> Photos of the transformation were published as art pieces, described as "an exploration of evolution and the human condition and its need to evolve and de-evolve through signs of [[gender neutral]]ity and [[gender dysphoria]] seen in modern Homo sapiens."<ref name="Roberts">{{Cite web |title=Genesis P-Orridge shares their vision for 'gender evolution,' possibly for the last time |last=Roberts |first=Randall |work=Los Angeles Times |date=23 October 2019 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-10-23/genesis-p-orridge-pandrogeny-transgender-throbbing-gristle }}</ref><ref name="Armstrong">{{Cite web |title=‘We Are Optimistic, Aren’t We?’: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on Death, Plastic Surgery, and How Pandrogeny Can Save the World |last=Armstrong |first=Annie |work=ARTnews.com |date=11 September 2019 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/genesis-breyer-porridge-13208/}}</ref> P-Orridge did not identify as [[transgender]] or [[transsexual]],<ref name="Juzwiak">{{Cite web |title=A Unique Case, Inevitably: Genesis P-Orridge on H/er Life and Loves in Previously Unpublished Interview |last=Juzwiak |first=Rich |work=The Muse |date=18 March 2020 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://themuse.jezebel.com/a-unique-case-inevitably-genesis-p-orridge-on-h-er-li-1842381043}}</ref> but was pro trans rights.<ref name="Colucci">{{Cite web |title=Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on H/er Radical Gender and Binary-Deconstructing Art |last=Colucci |first=Emily |work=them. |date=22 October 2019 |access-date=29 May 2020 |url= https://www.them.us/story/interview-genesis-breyer-p-orridge}}</ref>

Lady Jaye passed away of a heart condition in 2007<ref name="Roberts" />, and Genesis passed away of leukaemia in March 2020.

==Quotes==
{{quote|[W]e absolutely 100% believe, women should choose what they do with their own bodies. So should every human being. It's my skin. It's my body. And if I want to change it, that's my right. It's just raw material. It's not sacred. It doesn't belong to a deity. It doesn't belong to the government or any cabal of power brokers. It's mine. The malleability of the body is one of the gifts that we receive, and as technology changes and improves there are more and more choices.<ref name="Roberts" />}}

{{quote|Pandrogeny as a concept is not about gender—it's about the ending of all binary perception. It's influenced by the allegory of the path of no distinction—that all definitions, distinctions, values, matters of what could be considered good, bad, delicious, or revolting are all human-made. They're not innate. That's true of identity, which includes gender. For for us it's about erasing the need to even consider gender. [...] Obviously, for me personally, getting [[breast implants]] was a rejection of [[masculinity]] and the patriarchal society that I had been forced to live in since I was born. But for myself and Lady Jaye, it was about love. It was about becoming each other. It was about two individual beings reuniting into one unified divine being. That is the ultimate aim of pandrogeny. <ref name="Armstrong" />}}

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