光幻之墟

20070207, Seminar Talk
跨性別少年時尚：操作酷兒扮相，品味跨性王風采
Trans-Boy Fashion,
or How to Tailor-Make a King！


●What is trans-masculinity?

Transgender masculinity is a sensibility built from hybrid, non-uniform
expressions such as dissident boyishness, queer masculine aesthetics,
and a fashion represented by its eccentric anachronism.


●Female masculinity in hir many representational formations

A reportorial list on the terminology of female/queer masculine identity:
tomboy, butch (tb in HK or T in Taiwan), androgyny, trans-boy, transsexual
man, drag king, tribader, female husband, he-she…


●a queer trans-boy spectrum

Trans-masculinity is neither a supplement of straight male-hood, nor a hierarchy
constructed on the imagined authenticity of biological male identity. It is a
parallel universe, formed and sustained by queer subjects and corresponding to
social realities, including reflecting and discrediting a straight male’s
masculine identity.



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