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The Iconic Dress - photo by Terry Mac Namara 2003

Nicolette Mason asked the femme group what are our iconic pieces of clothing. This is mine. I found this dress in a vintage shop in 2002 and instantly fell in love. It was the first real piece in my femme wardrobe and I loved it especially in this photoshoot shot by Terry Mac Namara in 2003.

Other pieces that really made me ME include: my Hole t-shirt that I bought at their show in 1993, a teal brocade custom corset made for me by my friend heather, a lace long sleeve button up shirt that I wore throughout most of high school and well into my 20s (I wish it still fit/I still had it)

13:12 6th Dec 2011

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Femme style icon - Joyce from Edward Scissorhands.

09:34

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Reblogged from glitterpolitic

Tags: ashley aron majestic legay majestic writing glitter politic femme queer masculinity destroying gender misogyny trans

Dear Ashley

glitterpolitic:

As my public gender problems have been unfolding I have had to start thinking as critically about my masculinity as I have my femininity. I’ve noticed that often you and I (and many people we look up to) are looking to explode femininity, destroy it, or reconfigure or define it with our presentations. We have spent countless hours talking about that together and I carry those conversations with me through my incongruent experience of my gender. I carry them with me because I strive to constantly remember the way that gender works and who it disenfranchises so I can think critically about the ways I embody my gender and the privilege it affords me. As I turn a critical eye to masculinity I am more and more aware of what it feels like to embody masculinity and have masculine privilege. I would say that it hurts and that it is an immense struggle to embody masculinity in a way that does not feel rooted in the hatred of femininity. The other day I said to Jessica “I feel like masculinity means being really hard on yourself”. Lately, I have started to think about what it means to destroy masculinity. Queer theory is all about destroying or exploding identities and gender and I am interested in how I can redefine, destroy and totally pervert masculinity as a normative gender category. I want to look at the larger paradigms of how the world is fucking us over and the fact that our current historical situations have been brought to us in part by binary gender rubs me the wrong way. If we were all allowed to experience ourselves and our genders in a variety of different ways, what would the world look like? I think it might hurt less for many of us if we could concentrate on other things that make us feel whole. The other day I posted something on my tumblr that said “just out to destroy masculinity, nbd”. A lot of people got their backs up about and it, which frustrated me because so often masculinity rests on or is intimately connected to the vehement rejection and hatred of femininity. It’s even okay for masculinity to destroy and dominate femininity (which happens all of the time, in so many different ways). So why then, do people feel threatened by my desire to infect and defile masculinity, not just online but in my daily life? Perhaps it is because people are scared that they might lose something that is important to them, something that gives them stability and privilege. I guess what I am wondering is, is it wrong of me to want to kick down doors and make more room to dismantle gender so that other people can feel like they have space? In my opinion, we’re not gonna get anywhere if we don’t blow some shit up.

This is incomplete Ashley, but I just needed to get it out there. Hopefully you have some words of wisdom for me. If you need me I will be just across the ocean, overthinking everything.

Love you something fierce,

-Majestic

Burning down the house.

15:36 13th Nov 2011

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Reblogged from inthethickofit

Tags: sweaters plus size sweaters plus size blush queer femme

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inthethickofit:

In which I blush pink…

I decided to follow a page out of the Majestic handbook today in regards to my blush. The lovely K bought me this sweater this morning at the thrift store because it is so ultra femme and they just thought I NEEDED it. Well here it is. It all it’s delicious pink fur glory.

I’m a 5’9” queer fat femme and approx size 18

21:09 24th Oct 2011

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My favorite (casual) photo from the weekend. Just hanging out doing nailzzzz with M