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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. | '''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 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. | Lady Jaye passed away of a heart condition in 2007<ref name="Roberts" />, and Genesis passed away of leukaemia in March 2020. | ||
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[[Category: Nonbinary people]] | [[Category: Nonbinary people]] | ||
[[Category: Performers]] | [[Category: Performers]] | ||
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