#cross gender

[weirdchristmas]

Krampus was a dame!

[2020 update! Apparently this post is now the top Google hit for searches like “female Krampus.” I now have a moral obligation to add more.

LADY Krampus? Indeed...

[yunokiart]

Are you ready for another 'storm'?💕

[artsyand]

Fem-Mo Guan Shan 🥰

[shakespearenews]

All the women players: cross-gender Shakespeare – in pictures

Kathryn Hunter is about to play the RSC’s first Lady Timon of Athens and next year the Globe is staging Richard II with a company of women of colour. Here’s a look back at some of the many actresses who have taken major male roles in Shakespeare’s plays

[vintageindianclothing]

AP Nagarajan playing a sthreepart (a male actor playing the female role) in the stage version of the 1941 Tamil movie Gumasthavin Penn.Common in the Tamil theatre of the early 20th century, as elsewhere the tradition didn’t survive the transition to films.

In the 1930s especially the South Indian pallu of the 6 yard sari was tucked into the waist much like in the 9 yard drapes prevalent at the time.

Pic source.

[glenlorence]

[deventh]

Hanzo by STEVE Zheng

[yunokiart]