Bending Gender in Film [Hilary Swank]

Femme? Andro? Butch? Both? Your thoughts and comments are definitely interesting and encouraged!

Andro images, Round One: Some inspiration? [Shane]

Shane from Showtime's "The L-Word" is typically seen as the protype of an androgynous lesbian or bisexual woman nowendays. What do we think?

Now in the above photo, that's the muscle definition I'm talking about! I think it really gives a hot, sexy appearance of what a woman can be.

Interesting hair in the above photo! I think this is the longest I've ever seen it on Kate Moening as "Shane". I'm hoping to cut my hair shoulder-length and acheive something slightly similar, but perhaps longer for my first cut! (I don't want to be too drastic.)
Awesome fashion. Awesome awesome awesome.

I love the way she looks at us in the above picture-she's either in love with the woman she's staring at, or she knows something about somebody that we don't.

Andro, here I come?

As I wrote in my introductory post, I've recently realized that my gender identity is more androgynous than my outward physical appearance currently portrays. Outwardly, I'm very very femme. I have long blonde hair, and I never wear anything masculine-ties, boxers, nothing. I never play with gender.

But I'm recently realizing that I think I would be a lot happier if my physical appearance matched how I feel in the inside. I don't feel as feminine as I look. I feel much more "in the middle" of a masculine/feminine spectrum. I want to be more gender neutral, or gender queer, if you will.

So, Andro, here I come, right?

Well, it's mainly physical changes that I want to see happen. How do I go about doing that?

I've currently identified two challenges that I think I need to accomplish in order to help my appearance seem more andro. The first, is that I think I'd like to shorten my hair a bit. Right now I don't see myself chopping it all off-I don't think I'd like to do that either. But I can make it a little more shoulder-length, because right now it almost hits my chest.

Secondly, I think I'd like to lose a little bit of weight and increase muscular definition. Right now I think my body is much more feminine-curvy chest, less arm definition, than I feel I'd be happy with.

So, those are my thoughts. I'm scheduled to get a hair cut this Saturday, and I can start eating and working out differently tomorrow.

Andro, here I come!

Let's Bend My Gender

Tell me that isn't hot.

Amanda Moore, a LGBT American model is pictured at the right. I love this picture of her. It's bending gender to the max. The photo makes use the of the classical male americano iconic image-James Dean in a white-neck tank top with the cigarette smoke rising from her affected eyes and lips.

This is bending gender. Sure, the perfect flawless complexion, plucked eyebrows and the lip-gloss sealed lips give me a hunch that the person's biological sex is female, but I like the way she's playing with gender. She's androgynous, and I love it.

This is my goal. I currently identify as a feminine lesbian. I am 20 years old, attend a well-ranked private American university, and I'm openly queer at school.

Within the last few weeks, I've really been considering the possibility that I might identify more as androgynous in my gender identity. Maybe I'm not the ultra-femme that my appearance (long blonde locks!) would suggest.

It's summer, and I'm out of school after tomorrow. So I've decided to use my free time to think about my gender-to play with it a little bit. I think I want my first "experimenting" of sorts to be becoming more adrogynous in my appearance. I'm going to chronicle my experiences here online. I'll be updating the changes that I notice in the way others treat me, as I change my appearance to match more of what I feel is my internal gender. I'll post stories of how I feel about the changing me-or what I'm even doing to change.

In short, I'm excited to bend my gender.

...Thanks for following! Questions, comments or past experiences are welcome!