http://www.thestudmagazine.com/interpretation
-One woman's reflections on the development of her gender identity as a "stud". She describes the way her gender presentation was influenced by black male stereotypes and her conceptions of queerness. Click on the picture of the person in the backwards baseball cap for the story to drop down (you might have to click one of the arrows in the picture window to see her). From Stud Magazine: "An online based magazine founded in Toronto with an aim to redefine the term stud and introduce non gender conforming people to mainstream media." It's short, simple, and a great example of the intersectionality exercise we did in last week's class.
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This is quite interesting when looked at through the lens of bodily boundaries between what it means to be female and what it means to be male. In our society today, these gendered identity categories are binary and mutually exclusive (or at least thought to be). However, in the case of these individuals, they are about to transgress these categories by seemingly being in a way both feminine and masculine at the same time.
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