genderqueer

images of gender-bending, trans and queer people of all sorts, meant to empower and celebrate the beauty within all gender expressions. more about this blog

[latimes]

[dbeat]

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latimes:

A tough Wyoming cowboy who just happens to like blouses

Sissy Goodwin isn’t gay; he’s been married for 45 years and has two adult children. As a young man, he was a rodeo cowboy who rode bulls bareback, a free spirit who never shied away from a fistfight. The former aircraft mechanic loves to drink beer, play golf, throw steaks on the grill.

What sets him apart, he says, is what he calls gender independence: He just likes to do most things in a dress.

A resilient guy living it out in Wyoming, a state he refers to as “the Mississippi of the West” for its disposition toward him, Goodwin has been beaten, arrested and glared at for years - but he continues his defiant dressing habits to this day.

Read more from reporter John M. Glionna in a Column One feature.

Photos: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times

This weekend, do you. 

and never stop.

[fuckyeahhardfemme]

flora pinup realness.

~ michael

[genderqueer]

Call for submissions: Letters For My Siblings

Letters for My Siblings - a new book by Transgress Press - seeks submissions from from writers who are non-binary, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, bigender, agender, or who simply don’t fit nicely into the boxes of “man” and “woman”.

[newlevant]

Hi! I’m stoked to present my thesis comic, If This Be Sin, based on the life of Gladys Bentley. It’s for sale on Gumroad! You can download the 16 page full-color PDF for $2.

Gladys Bentley, was a blues singer, piano player, and drag king who performed bawdy tunes in Harlem nightclubs throughout the 1920s and ’30s. Despite the social obstacles she faced as a black, openly queer woman, her outrageous and energetic act became a mainstay of the Harlem cabaret. In 1952, under the oppressive social conditions of the McCarthy era, Bentley publicly renounced her previous identity and claimed to have found happiness as a feminine housewife.

Gumroad is super simple to use, you just have to enter your credit card number and you’ll be sent a direct download, plus Gumroad will email you a link to re-download it if you ever lose track of the file.

FOR EVERY 100 NOTES, I’LL GIVE AWAY A DIGITAL COMIC TO A RANDOM TUMBLR USER so please share if you can! (Within each 100 notes, only people who reblog are eligible for a free copy.)

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the comic!

[buckangel]

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best PSA i’ve ever seen!

[genderqueer]

PSA about safer sex between trans and cis (non-trans) men. Audio is in French; subtitles are available in French and English.

[genderqueer]

Kelly Worrall's story: The costs and the courage of coming out

"When Kelly Worrall took off her men’s clothes for what she expected would be the last time in 2011, she felt free.

'It was very liberating to be able to give myself the opportunity to be who I needed to be in the moment,' she says. 'For 37 years I've played by the rules and I’ve done everything I was supposed to do, and it didn’t make me happy. I still felt trapped inside.'

As a seven-year-old, Worrall wished she had been born a girl. She wanted to wear long skirts and grow up to be a tall, beautiful woman. But it was the 1980s, and transitioning back then was barely an option on most people’s radar. So she repressed her feminine self. Until she couldn’t anymore.

Coming out gave her permission to be her true self, she says.

Now, after two years of living full-time as a woman, she is presenting again as a man. Does this make her any less trans? No, she answers without hesitation.

This is her story."

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Vogue Italia, December 2012

[ceemophotos-blog]

Never let your friends borrow your clothes

[fyandrogyny]

Name: TQ Just made a new instagram: TQ_Exposures Age: 23 Trying to revamp my wardrobe …help wanted! Thanks in advance

[fyandrogyny]

Just a quick snapshot while getting out of drag.

http://kamikaze-queer.tumblr.com

[cant-party-deactivated20131202]

hi! (:

grae, non-binary.

[fuckyeahqueerpomps]

WOW!

[dad-vibessss]

As Eli Clare brilliantly puts it, “the mannerisms that help define gender—the way in which people walk, swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space—are all based upon how non disabled people move…The construct of gender depends not only upon the male body and female body, but also on the non disabled body.” Ableism renders invisible those bodies not privileged by dominant definitions of ability, those bodies that do not fit the conceptions of gender that we often imagine.

On Ableism within Queer Spaces, or, Queering the “Normal”

[khymeira]

[genderqueer]

costumepartypolitics:

is anyone else tired of seeing skinny white boys with beards in dresses?

[fyandrogyny]

My new haircut!

(Submitted by jenniferkvelez)

[statusqueernotstatusquo]

I love Iggy.

[papichuleta-deactivated20151202]

yes? or maybe I should get some new ones that make me look like an adult and not 13.

this is from last fall

[svperluminous]

This is Lithuanian male model Justas Jasulaitis

Click for the article in Lithuanian (there are more photos)