GenderQueer
I am re posting this as public.
I was reading the essay the end of genderqueer by Rocko bulldagger.
I was, I had to put it does, I had to write because it struck me, with why I hate the term political genderqueer when used by others to describe my experience and to speak over me.
Zie describes genderqueer as a political statement, as a performance to challenge cultural norms of gender. I have no problem with gender performance as political however Zie leaves no room for those who’s I.D is a reaction to need, rather than political stance
No no no.
I am not sold of the word genderqueer, pan-gendered intergendered other/neither would work just as well for me, but it is a term that many people are aware of so I go with it.
There was a gut reaction to those words, political genderqueer,
That kick in the stomach when you go, no you just don’t get this do you. I stand with many trans people when I say, no, I am not your theoretical argument, I am not your fucking solution to the gender binary, I am trying to get on with my life, fighting, clawing desperately for something that fits, some version, so space where I don’t get that sick to my gut feeling of wrongness, where my body, my place feels something like authentic, something approaching true.
Political: choice: planned: deliberate
The ethical vegan and the person with lactose intolerance might both not eat dairy, but that is all I have in common with those whose gender presentation for subverting the gender binary, when I am just trying not to throw up.
My gender is political, there is no way it can’t be, every morning I challenge people idea of what “women” do, by dressing like I do, by being called he sometimes, Zie at others. By studying computer science, by desiring women, by desiring brutal sex, by desiring sex with many partners, some I might not know, very of few of whom I see the great future with. It is a political statement because there is no other way to be in this world, it is about surviving, hell maybe even thriving. But it isn’t to change anyone mind.
I was reading the essay the end of genderqueer by Rocko bulldagger.
I was, I had to put it does, I had to write because it struck me, with why I hate the term political genderqueer when used by others to describe my experience and to speak over me.
Zie describes genderqueer as a political statement, as a performance to challenge cultural norms of gender. I have no problem with gender performance as political however Zie leaves no room for those who’s I.D is a reaction to need, rather than political stance
No no no.
I am not sold of the word genderqueer, pan-gendered intergendered other/neither would work just as well for me, but it is a term that many people are aware of so I go with it.
There was a gut reaction to those words, political genderqueer,
That kick in the stomach when you go, no you just don’t get this do you. I stand with many trans people when I say, no, I am not your theoretical argument, I am not your fucking solution to the gender binary, I am trying to get on with my life, fighting, clawing desperately for something that fits, some version, so space where I don’t get that sick to my gut feeling of wrongness, where my body, my place feels something like authentic, something approaching true.
Political: choice: planned: deliberate
The ethical vegan and the person with lactose intolerance might both not eat dairy, but that is all I have in common with those whose gender presentation for subverting the gender binary, when I am just trying not to throw up.
My gender is political, there is no way it can’t be, every morning I challenge people idea of what “women” do, by dressing like I do, by being called he sometimes, Zie at others. By studying computer science, by desiring women, by desiring brutal sex, by desiring sex with many partners, some I might not know, very of few of whom I see the great future with. It is a political statement because there is no other way to be in this world, it is about surviving, hell maybe even thriving. But it isn’t to change anyone mind.