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“or how did this project come about
Over a year ago, we got a request from “Candy magazine”, an yearly publication on transexuality and drag, to publish once again, and twenty years later, the “Modern Lovers” and “Les Espionnes”. A body of work on androginy and transgender shot during the hardest times of aids.
It gave me the idea instead to check, If things were different today in the world of gender, from the eighties.
We opened a Facebook profile, showing a few of these early pictures (among them the first image Kate Moss ever shot) with a message encouraging people who felt “different” to get in touch with the Studio.
I “Skyped” with youg boys and girls from all over the world, they told me the most beautiful stories about their lives.
There was nothing pathetic or sad in their stories, just a feeling of being different.
A lot of them knew from childhood, that they were born in the wrong body and had decided, many with the help of their parents, to correct the original mistake.
But what struck me as being completely new, were the ones who refused to choose between the two options, and had decided to live using both identities. Depending on the day, the mood; why not have it all ? – In Australia, last autumn, for the first time, someone got the mention “X” on his/her passport, recognizing for the very first time the existance of a “third sex” –
While we were “Skyping”, I got taken away by their voices, and the words they used.
Voices that cannot be desguised very long, that broke during our conversations, going back to their original nature.
Accents from everywhere, speaking english / french / spanish, talking about magic and witches and god fairies, and dreams of princess.
I had 27 of them come to the studio from all over the world, and working together with a great sound artist, Frédéric Sanchez, we recorded them in the studio right after the shooting. I also worked very closely with my friend, and wonderful designer Jean Colonna who helped to glorify these new “Modern Lovers”.
It was amazing.
So the installation will be
A large square / rectangle room.
These portraits looking at the viewer.
A sound installation going around, in an hypnotic way, following the viewer as he is lingering through the exhibition.
But if you stand in the middle of the room, you will be able to listen to the voice of the new third sex !”
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A Series Of Questions
This ongoing body of work explores the power dynamics inherent in the questions asked of transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender-variant people.
See more photos here.
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Sara Davidman’s portrait ‘Robert and Me, Me and Robert,’ at http://saradavidmann.com/robert.html. Thx to Andrea and Elizabeth for bringing this to my attention.
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(Source: ugly-feelings, via ortide)
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WORK! that gender variance.
the fiercest thing i’ve seen in while. GET IT.
That propped up hand like so?! YUS!Oh, so fly ! Love the skirt and the earrings
working those layers like there is no tomorrow i am forever in love with people who know how to layer well.
yeah this is a million kinds of amazing. i am particularly enamored by the colour of those fingerless gloves over fishnets and tons of flashy bangles. babe.
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Still Not a Joke — Good Awareness Campaign From Just Detention International
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
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The magnificence of a body that shakes, spills out, takes up space, needs help, moseys, slinks, limps, drools, rocks, curls over on itself. The magnificence of a body that doesn’t get to choose when to go to the bathroom, let alone which bathroom to use. A body that doesn’t get to choose what to wear in the morning, what hairstyle to sport, how they’re going to move or stand, or what time they’re going to bed. The magnificence of bodies that have been coded, not just undesirable and ugly, but un-human. The magnificence of bodies that are understanding gender in far more complex ways than I could explain in an hour. Moving beyond a politic of desirability to loving the ugly. Respecting Ugly for how it has shaped us and been exiled. Seeing its power and magic, seeing the reasons it has been feared. Seeing it for what it is: some of our greatest strength.
—Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability by Mia Mingus
re-reading this for the fourth time this year, i am in tears. mia mingus moves me in ways i cannot fully express.
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