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Nov 29
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Gender subversion

What is gender? What does it mean to be feminine? Masculine? Can someone be a man and also be feminine? What makes someone a man or a woman? What about transgendered people? What does it mean to identify as a femme transmasculine androgynous genderqueer? Do those labels matter? Are those terms contradictory?

I want to do some chalking on campus to ease the idea of a non-binary model of gender. I want to pose simple questions like, "What if gender is more complex than check one: M or F?". I want to be subversive. I want to mean something. Gender is so complex and the binary model of gender forces people to fit into either one box or another. What about people who exist outside of this system? What if someone's gender expression, gender identity, and physical sex don't all match? Why isn't there an option C?

How can we influence real, tangible change? I suggest a revolution in conscious.