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In their 2007 zine ''Queer & Trans Sexual Assault: A Youth Issue'', writer Erin Johnson expressed their distaste for the gender binary, commenting "It has only been recently that I have been redefining my gender identity and recognizing that the binary-gender system is ridiculously constricting and truly a whole load of crap".<ref>Johnson, Erin. ''Queer & Trans Sexual Assault: A Youth Issue''. Santa Barbara. 2007. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/15</ref> Johnson includes "genderqueer" and gender neutral pronouns "[[Ze/hir|hir/ze]]" as glossary items, mentions that some people describe themselves as "gender neutral" or "genderless", and observes that personal identity is not necessarily static over time. | In their 2007 zine ''Queer & Trans Sexual Assault: A Youth Issue'', writer Erin Johnson expressed their distaste for the gender binary, commenting "It has only been recently that I have been redefining my gender identity and recognizing that the binary-gender system is ridiculously constricting and truly a whole load of crap".<ref>Johnson, Erin. ''Queer & Trans Sexual Assault: A Youth Issue''. Santa Barbara. 2007. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/15</ref> Johnson includes "genderqueer" and gender neutral pronouns "[[Ze/hir|hir/ze]]" as glossary items, mentions that some people describe themselves as "gender neutral" or "genderless", and observes that personal identity is not necessarily static over time. | ||
In 2007, Misster Raju Rage started a series of anthology zines called Masculine Femininities. Rage, who self-identified as an "undefined" and "masculine feminine" trans person of color, offered this description of their sense of gender in issue oneː<ref>Rage, Raju. Masculine Femininities, vol. 1. Uploaded November 19, 2009. https://masculinefemininities.wordpress.com/category/issue-1/ </ref><blockquote>So, as a masculine Trans person who feels feminine; who am I? Male or female? (This is what I get asked a lot directly or indirectly) or, which pronoun do I use? I get ‘she-d’ a lot and very often get confused as a female masculine person, the kind Judith Halberstam has made famous. But I am NOT. I use capitals not because I dislike the above or want to be disassociated from this but more because I want to be recognised for whom I really am; essentially masculine and yet feminine.</blockquote>The issue also includes writing and art from other gender variant people, including an interview with Rage's collaborator Jin Haritaworn, who described a fluid sense of gender and presentationː<ref>Haritaworn, Jin. Interviewed by Misster Raju Rage in ''Masculine Femininities'', issue 1. https://masculinefemininities.wordpress.com/category/issue-1/</ref><blockquote> I identify as a switch, or a pendulum, and my masculinity and femininity are very related. When I present masculine for a while, my femininity comes back with a vengeance (laughs). I get depressed when I feel stuck in one mode. If I present just masculine for too long, I end up feeling grey, lifeless, like all the colour has been drained from my life. You know how boys grunt and move their bodies very sparsely, their shoulders and hips. This is the most, and the longest I have stayed in predominantly masculine mode. There are times I have to remind myself that I am entitled to express myself, express femininity, to switch and change.</blockquote>Contributor Sabri Clay Sky also expressed a fluid sense of gender, and explained his reasons for accepting both he/him and she/her pronounsː<ref>Sky, Sabri Clay.https://masculinefemininities.wordpress.com/category/issue-1/</ref><blockquote>I consider myself genderqueer and can have kind of a feminine masculinity. I’m most comfortable with switching gender pronoun usage, since communities I’m around don’t use gender neutral or all-inclusive genderpronouns. For instance, performing as a drag king, members of the troupe refer to each other as he *or* she. This honours, to me: On one hand, referring to “she” who plays on the women’s (American) football team highlights positively, incorporates, and celebrates the usually ignored/monsterized masculine female into our and the larger culture, such as, but referring to the same person as “he” who brought the flyers for the drag show gives credit to his/her masculinity, and the masculine gender of this person in drag and activities leading up to it. A performer before realizing my gender flux gender identity, I’ve found gender performativity to be very real–very corporeal.</blockquote> | |||
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