Andrew

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Research Project Gender

on networking and programming @ https:// wizardzines.com Questioning Your Tools ‘Gender and Technology Institute

(GTI) events, and the accompanying
curricula, look at feminist critiques
and perspectives of technology,
how women and LGBTIQ people are
disproportionately targeted by hate
speech and gender based violence online
and offline, and the initiatives and
practices enabling women and LGBTIQ
to include themselves in privacy and
security.’
  — gendersec.tacticaltech.org

The book Andrew has his period. (Anecdotes of Androgyny) reflects through text and images on the multi faceted nature of the 9 month performance ‘i am becoming’. The book concerns itself both with the project and with questioning the limitations of expressing an experience. Playing with the notion of the anecdote as an incomplete and whimsical means of expression.

I learnt that the fat in my ass, breasts and hips would drop away, that the bones in my face would thicken, that I would grow more hair on my face, chest, abdomen, and back. My clitoris would enlarge. I learnt I would not grow a penis. I learnt what would happen to my body if I took testosterone. (I never took testosterone.)

07/02/2014 I am re-imagining my sense of self around the premise ‘What if 26 years ago they had said “it’s a boy” How would I be living differently. How would I interact with the world. How would the world validate me.’ In the assumption of a male identity I am not only questioning how I would fulfil life as a boy, but also how the reality of living as a male influences how I feel in the here and now.What does it mean as a designated, biological female to ‘become a man’. To appropriate the identity of another gender whilst remaining physically of female delineation. What does it mean to live out the expected gender norms of natal men. What is it to be gendered?

Politics of Location: Artist white queer dyslexic middle class womxn western European

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References and background: I am re-imagining my sense of self around the premise ‘What if 26 years ago they had said “it’s a boy” How would I be living differently. How would I interact with the world. How would the world validate me.’ In the assumption of a male identity I am not only questioning how I would fulfil life as a boy, but also how the reality of living as a male influences how I feel in the here and now.What does it mean as a designated, biological female to ‘become a man’. To appropriate the identity of another gender whilst remaining physically of female delineation. What does it mean to live out the expected gender norms of natal men. What is it to be gendered?

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description: Archive ▼ , Artist ▼ , artist book ▼

mood: quiet ▼ , humorous ▼

associations: dressup ▼ , genderbending ▼ , performativity ▼

location: Ghent ▼

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languages involved: english ▼

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sustainability: student loan ▼

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approx. number of people involved: 2

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