Wednesday, November 22, 2006
ASSIGNMENT: Redesign 1000 Genders
filed under: We Make Art Not Sex by Melissa Gira
The project is called 1000 Tiny Sexes, but really, they’re talking about gender. That’s fine with me. No one has to take Women’s Studies 101 just to make good art (no matter what they told you in school).
Yes, unicorn can be a gender.
1000 Tiny Sexes. Submit a tiny sketch of a completely new gender. A gender mash-up. A gender collision. A gender beta release. No assembly required. Safety glasses recommended. All you need is a pencil and, maybe, a mirror. (Or a research partner or two or three.)
Submission guidelines excerpted below:
- You may not propose a sex such as Male or Female that has been legally codified and naturalized as “the way things are”.
- You may propose “in-between” sexes which are combinations of Male-Female, but we will favor sexes that seek to entirely reimagine sex as a biological, cultural, political, and social category.
Want some food for recombinant gender art thought?
Kate Bornstein’s ‘Gender Aptitude Test’: “Would you like to know more about your own gender and how it’s been affecting your life? Just how freewheeling and open are you when it comes to the subject of gender and sexuality? Here’s a series of questions that will give you a good idea of exactily where you stand when it comes to gender.”
Intersex Society of North America: “devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.”
Wikipedia: Genderqueer: “Genderqueer is a gender identity. A genderqueer person is someone who identifies as a gender other than “man” or “woman,” or someone who identifies as neither, both, or some combination thereof. In relation to the gender binary (the view that there are only two genders), genderqueer people generally identify as more both/and or neither/nor, rather than either/or.”
transmissions, by Dean Spade, of makezine (no, not that one - his came first, O’Reilly): on bathroom uprising and the politics of biology, sex, surgery, and health.
Confluere: offering trans/genderqueer buttons. “Fuck Yr Gender” today.
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