User:Kboles2000/Gender binary
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I've made a few minor additions to the content by linking some words and phrases to other existing Wikipedia pages - Alyssa (Man I love frogs)
In the LGBT Community
There are some people who have started rejecting the gender binary as a whole. Postgenderism is a term used to describe the social concept of rejecting gender, and the systems that control it in society. They subscribe to the idea that the dismantling of the gender binary would make a safe space for all expressions, and thus make society better as a whole.
Ball culture is an example of how the LGBT community interprets and rejects the gender binary. Paris is Burning, a film directed by Jennie Livingston, depicts New York's ballroom scene in the last 1980's. To compete in the Balls, men, women, and everyone in between create costumes and walk in their respective categories, some being Butch Queen, Transmute Realness, and Femme Queen. During the Balls, the gender binary is thrown out the window, and the people competing are allowed to express themselves however they interpret the category. Within the scenes of people competing in various categories there's a narrative that describes life outside the gender binary in New York. Since the film came out there's been a decline in the Ballroom scene do to the rise of media and the appropriation of the Drag culture (NYT article).
References
- https://axelkra.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IEET-03-PostGender.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01641-x
- https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/server/enwiki/api/core/bitstreams/f743adc5-d497-4d86-a23e-bcb16cde24cc/content
- https://www.papermag.com/munroe-bergdorf-lgbtq-hierarchy-1-2639945895.html?rebelltitem=9#rebelltitem9
Limitations and rejection
I would like to add subsections within this section! Below I provide a loose outline of what we could add to the article - Alyssa (Man I love frogs)
Degendering fashion
Earlier in this section the article describes social movements against the gender binary but doesn't go into specifics--I think this is a fairly well-known movement that is a prime example of people rejecting expectations of the gender binary.
A recent example in popular culture is Harry Style's Vogue cover shoot. A cisgender man wearing a dress (clothing coded as feminine) defies the gender norms set in place by the gender binary.
- We could also talk about how this was received by the public (i.e. praise and criticism he received for this).
Outside of popular culture, we can mention Alok Vaid-Menon, an nonbinary poet and activist that does a lot of work in degendering fashion.
References
Harry Styles (potential sources)