From The Huffington Post -- Pics Of Agender People
Article and photos here.
"Sparked by a tragic incident of violence and hate, photographer Chloe Aftel's portrait project "Agender" shines a spotlight on the beautiful complexities of the genderqueer and neutrois communities."
(Comments are as comments do. If you don't care and this doesn't affect your life in any way, do you think you're doing us any favors by writing in and saying so? Do you want cookies for your fabulous ally powers? Also, this has nothing to do with intersex, wow. The ignorance, it burns. Also, "I'm too old to ever be comfortable with this, it just seems weird and confused," "Here are your good ally cookies, I wish more people could be as open-minded as you"? WOW, LOWEST STANDARDS EVER, AMIRITE? (And yes, how other people perceive their gender REALLY MATTERS for a lot of trans/genderqueer/agender folks, imagine that. "They shouldn't care how other people see their gender, lalala, they should just be happy!" -- Cis privilege, anyone?))
Anyway, I think most of you reading this know what I'm going to say next: "Gosh, almost all of these pics are young and skinny and white." I am not finding any PoC. All but one are thin. Everyone looks under 30. And I'm not sure if the pics on the photographer's Tumblr of one older person (50 or 60 years old) are even from this same project.
So either the Huffington Post only chose these images to display, out of a larger collection (a problem), or the photographer only photographed people who look like this (which, however that came about, is still a problem).
Most people here are also visually androgynous, and wow that erases agender people who don't visually "pass" as agender. Where are the large-breasted agender people? (Where are the large agender people, period? I see one. I'D HAVE TO LOSE LIKE 60 LBS TO LOOK LIKE THESE MODELS. And some people would have to lose a lot more!)
Being agender doesn't mean one is born with a body that fits with these images.
And only those with male-contoured chests can show nipples -- HUGELY privileging some agender people's bodies, and how much of them they can show, over others. (Not that this might be a cause of dysphoria for anyone, NO. /sarcasm/)
So while I think it's great start, and I'm glad that the Huffington Post recognizes that agender people exist, I'm also very concerned about this set "representing" agender people, and what such people "look like," to the larger society.
"Sparked by a tragic incident of violence and hate, photographer Chloe Aftel's portrait project "Agender" shines a spotlight on the beautiful complexities of the genderqueer and neutrois communities."
(Comments are as comments do. If you don't care and this doesn't affect your life in any way, do you think you're doing us any favors by writing in and saying so? Do you want cookies for your fabulous ally powers? Also, this has nothing to do with intersex, wow. The ignorance, it burns. Also, "I'm too old to ever be comfortable with this, it just seems weird and confused," "Here are your good ally cookies, I wish more people could be as open-minded as you"? WOW, LOWEST STANDARDS EVER, AMIRITE? (And yes, how other people perceive their gender REALLY MATTERS for a lot of trans/genderqueer/agender folks, imagine that. "They shouldn't care how other people see their gender, lalala, they should just be happy!" -- Cis privilege, anyone?))
Anyway, I think most of you reading this know what I'm going to say next: "Gosh, almost all of these pics are young and skinny and white." I am not finding any PoC. All but one are thin. Everyone looks under 30. And I'm not sure if the pics on the photographer's Tumblr of one older person (50 or 60 years old) are even from this same project.
So either the Huffington Post only chose these images to display, out of a larger collection (a problem), or the photographer only photographed people who look like this (which, however that came about, is still a problem).
Most people here are also visually androgynous, and wow that erases agender people who don't visually "pass" as agender. Where are the large-breasted agender people? (Where are the large agender people, period? I see one. I'D HAVE TO LOSE LIKE 60 LBS TO LOOK LIKE THESE MODELS. And some people would have to lose a lot more!)
Being agender doesn't mean one is born with a body that fits with these images.
And only those with male-contoured chests can show nipples -- HUGELY privileging some agender people's bodies, and how much of them they can show, over others. (Not that this might be a cause of dysphoria for anyone, NO. /sarcasm/)
So while I think it's great start, and I'm glad that the Huffington Post recognizes that agender people exist, I'm also very concerned about this set "representing" agender people, and what such people "look like," to the larger society.