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WHOA WHOA WHOA THERE. HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?? IS THAT ROB? OUR BRO? IN A FUCKING SKIRT AND BRA AND SHIT? YOU FUCKING BET IT IS.
DOES THIS MEAN YOU SHOULD STOP USING MALE PRONOUNS, BECAUSE I’VE TAKEN PART IN SOMETHING STEREOTYPICALLY FEMALE? FUCK NO! YOU SHOULD RESPECT MY PRONOUN CHOICE NO MATTER HOW I AM PRESENTING MYSELF, UNTIL I SPECIFICALLY ASK YOU TO CHANGE PRONOUNS!
DOES THIS MEAN, BECAUSE I AM (FAAB)ULOUS AND PARTAKING IN STEREOTYPICALLY FEMALE ACTIVITY, THAT I AM FEMALE? DOES IT MEAN I AM REJECTING MY GENDERQUEERITY OR MAKING MY GENDER IDENTITY ILLEGITIMATE? FUCK NO! IT MEANS I WANNA WEAR A FUCKING SKIRT, SON!
DOES THIS MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO FEEL COMFORTABLE IN A SKIRT BECAUSE CLOTHES ARE GENDERLESS? FUCK NO! IF IT ISN’T FOR YOU, IT ISN’T FOR YOU!
(via genderfork)
These underwear. I desire them. For reasons. *paws at screen* I can feel pretty AND right at the same time.
(via femmeftm)
What we are wearing is political and has really high stakes! The conditions of production of the actual materials we wear are life and death, and the consequences we all face for how we use clothing, grooming and style to craft our appearances are life and death. I’m thinking about racist laws that have attempted to ban sagging pants in some jurisdictions or use certain colors of clothing as methods to identify and criminalize youth of color for purported gang membership. I’m also thinking of the long history of sumptuary laws, and the horrific regulation of gender-related clothing and grooming items that trans prisoners are constantly fighting. Fashion is definitely a political question.
It’s interesting because fashion and style is a site of liberatory feelings at times—moments of pleasure, mutual recognition, belonging, escape, and rebellion. But there is also the broader context of extreme violence and coercion in which we dress ourselves. There is the constant danger of feeling wrong, being punished, and being stared at. These two elements are often happening simultaneously. I think about this when I engage with people who I know are making choices about their appearances that are both highly endangering and also feel urgently important or wonderfully expressive. It is amazing how much so many people risk to wear their look. Certainly, many trans people exemplify this, risking extreme violence walking around offending gender norms and being beautiful.
(via besttumblr)
gqid:
“Marimacho™ is a Brooklyn-based queer fashion line. We offer a full seasonal line of masculine clothes for cis women & transmasculine bodies.”
Official site: http://marimachobk.com/
Thought this would be of interest - my favorite item is definitely the steampunk heart buckle!
“In 1920, the paper doll Baby Bobby has a pink dress in his wardrobe, as well as lace-trimmed collars and underclothes.”
(From the Smithsonian article, “When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?”)
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
(Smithsonian Magazine)
Little Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits primly on a stool, his white skirt spread smoothly over his lap, his hands clasping a hat trimmed with a marabou feather. Shoulder-length hair and patent leather party shoes complete the ensemble.
We find the look unsettling today, yet social convention of 1884, when FDR was photographed at age 2 1/2, dictated that boys wore dresses until age 6 or 7, also the time of their first haircut. Franklin’s outfit was considered gender-neutral.
But nowadays people just have to know the sex of a baby or young child at first glance, says historian Jo B. Paoletti…
Why have young children’s clothing styles changed so dramatically? How did we end up with two “teams”—boys in blue and girls in pink?
“It’s really a story of what happened to neutral clothing,” says Paoletti, who has explored the meaning of children’s clothing for 30 years. For centuries, she says, children wore dainty white dresses up to age 6. “What was once a matter of practicality—you dress your baby in white dresses and diapers; white cotton can be bleached—became a matter of ‘Oh my God, if I dress my baby in the wrong thing, they’ll grow up perverted,’ ” Paoletti says…
(I was pleasantly surprised by the ending of this article: “The fashion world may have divided children into pink and blue, but in the world of real individuals, not all is black and white.” Read it here.)
Submission from Brian Davis
I’m comfortable being male + comfortable wearing women’s pants and shoes. Add that together and that makes me a male sissy
You Know You’re Trans* When: #876 You can’t plan your outfits the night before because you don’t know what gender you’ll be when you wake up.
(Source: youknowyouretrans)
This photo series by JJ Levine, Switch, is amazing. Several pairs of people pose as a couple, one dressed “masculine” and the other “feminine”, and then switch outfits. Some persons are hardly recognizable from one picture to the next.
![Chateando with the Creators of Marimacho
When Brooklyn-based Crystal González, a 23-year-old management consultant, and Ivette Alé, a 25-year-old Southern California native with a keen mind for fashion got together, it was only a matter of time before they launched Marimacho – a clothing line for trans men and masculine-identified women. “Marimacho” is derived from the Spanish derogatory term “marimacha” used to belittle those [female-assigned-at-birth people] who are gender-nonconforming.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm6uarqVSv1qzjgceo1_500.jpg)
Chateando with the Creators of Marimacho
When Brooklyn-based Crystal González, a 23-year-old management consultant, and Ivette Alé, a 25-year-old Southern California native with a keen mind for fashion got together, it was only a matter of time before they launched Marimacho – a clothing line for trans men and masculine-identified women. “Marimacho” is derived from the Spanish derogatory term “marimacha” used to belittle those [female-assigned-at-birth people] who are gender-nonconforming.
