Genderfuck refers to the conscious effort to “fuck with,” play with, or mock traditional notions of gender identity, gender roles, and gender presentation.
Basically we are creating a space where gender does not exist- at a Co-op party. What else could you possibly want?!
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Performance by The Hi-Fi Honeydrops
and DJ Evan Jones
***This is NOT your typical rager. Rather it is a progressive social experiment that seeks to alleviate some of the pain many feel as a result of societies current oppressive binary gender system.***
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn’t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
Judy Chicago
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself
.Judith Butler
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler
‘Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence.’
David Halperin
Wes And Zimmermans theory of “Doing Gender”
The theory explains that “Doing gender involves a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional, and micropolitical activities that cast particular pursuits as expressions of masculine and feminine ‘natures’” and advocates that “Gender depictions are less a consequence of our ‘essential sexual natures’ than interactional portrayals of what we would like to convey about sexual natures, using conventionalized gestures. Our human nature gives us the ability to learn to produce and recognize masculine and feminine gender displays-‘a capacity [we] have by virtue of being persons, not males and females”(Zimmerman, West,). Basically feminine and masculine qualities are not innate in humans, rather society created and forced these rules on its constituents.
Genderfuck can be an expression of gender identity or, paradoxically, a conspicuous refusal to express gender identity in any conventionally interpretable fashion, or to respect the gender expression of others. Genderfuck uses parody and exaggeration to call attention to its transgression of gender roles, seeking to expose them as artificial[2], often by manipulating one’s appearance to create gender dissonance or ambiguity in stark opposition of the gender binary.
