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Cinderella transformation dress for the cosplay contest at G6 where I won 1st place! This was the practise run through about an hour before hand!

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“…When I say the greatest athlete in a generation, I mean the greatest in any sport. Sorry, LeBron. Sorry, Tiger. Sorry, Derek. For fifteen years, over two generations of tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant yet oddly uncherished national treasure. She is wealthy and famous, but it seems that she should be more famous, the most famous. Anyone who likes sports should love Williams’s dazzling combination of talent, persistence, style, unpredictability, poise, and outsized, heart-on-her-sleeve flaws.

But not everyone loves her. Part of this is owing to the duelling -isms of American prejudice, sexism, and racism….

…But it’s not enough to say that Williams would be more uniformly adored if she were a white woman, or a man. Instead, the failure to fully appreciate her importance is perhaps evidence of our inability to appreciate the stubbornly unfamiliar narrative arc of her career. Williams is underloved because, at times, she has been unlovable and, in the end, mostly unrepentant about it—something that might be admired as iconoclastic in a male athlete, but rarely endears women to a wide audience….

[Recently,] after a disappointing showing in the three previous Grand Slam tournaments, Williams said that she adopted a new way of thinking about the game, to put less pressure on herself by appreciating what she had already accomplished. ‘That’s the beauty of my career,’ she said before the Open. ‘I don’t need to do anything at all. Everything I do from this day forward is a bonus. Actually, from yesterday. It doesn’t matter. Everything for me is just extra.’ This is surely wisdom, but it is also a form of sports sacrilege. I don’t have anything to prove; I have been great—so great, in fact, that at this point winning doesn’t even matter.”

Excerpted from an article by Ian Crouch for New Yorker Magazine

Photograph by Darron Cummings/AP

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The Rugrats don’t have time for your gender-essentialist bullshit.

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fun fact: this actually happens in studies about gender stereotypes projected onto babies

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"Women need to stop complaining about being objectified. Men get objectified JUST as much as women do."

You were saying?

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Drag Queens and Trans Women: The Possibility of Feminist Solidarity

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Queers of all kinds struggle to maintain their precarious control over their identity once it goes beyond the limited enclaves of queer self-determination. This is limited by all kinds of factors including one’s class, race, and ability, not to mention gender and sexuality. The visibility that many white, cisgender gay men have achieved is a result of the great social control they have over their own identities, in sharp contrast to the control that trans women (especially working class trans women of color) often are denied. However, Frye goes on to acknowledge—parenthetically—the possibility for a “gentler politic,” one “which lies behind some gay men’s affectation of the feminine”: It can be a kind of fun which involves mockery not of women or of straight men but of the whole institution of gender—a deliberately irreverent fooling around with one of the most sacred foolishnesses of phallocentric culture. This may be the necessarily lighthearted political action of a gender rebel rather than an exercise of masculinity. Certain kinds of lightheartedness in connection with what is, after all, the paraphernalia of women’s oppression can become a rather bad joke. But when the silliness stays put as a good joke on patriarchy it betrays a potentially revolutionary levity about the serious matter of manhood and thus may express a politics more congenial to feminism than most gay politics.

Male drag queens need to acknowledge that this joke does not reflect the lived experience of women, performance is not the same as identity, and that a bad joke about one’s own social power isn’t amusing to the women who are denied that power. Instead, a joke about the source of that power, about the system of gender signification as a whole and the institution of patriarchy that supports it, is in far better taste. Likewise, both cisgender feminists and gay male drag queens need to create a space for trans women to articulate their own experiences.

#trans gender #feminism #drag #lgbtq