(viii) Gender flux within and across Slavic languages could also influence Yiddish. In between those extremes include being slightly a given gender, (libragender), to being partially a given gender, (demigender) to being mostly, but not entirely a given gender, (paragender). Genderflux people can fluctuate from feeling 0 a given gender (agender), to being 100 a given gender. “I want resources, creative outlets and tools to be available for the gender variant community,” says Alexzander. thus resulting in a variety of genders in the relexified German word. Genderflux is a term for those whose gender fluctuates in intensity. He also welcomed the first non-binary parenting blogger, a mother named Russ, who will contribute an advice column to the brand’s website. What’s more, he also took the first step toward becoming a community platform by inviting fans to become online contributors, as well as creating a Facebook photo album for fan selfies. Just one post from the brand’s latest campaign was quickly liked and reblogged by almost 97,000 people on Tumblr. To do this, Alexzander is planning his first full fashion line-made with contributions from gender variant designers-that will address one of the “hard questions” of fashion: How to deliberately make clothes so that different sizes of a design can be adapted to flatter various body types, rather than simply making bigger or smaller versions that only flatter one shape.Īnd while Alexzander estimates his blog reaches over 40,000 fans, GenderFlux has the potential to help him become an activist juggernaut. “And to create a space where non-binary people can shop for clothes without feeling uncomfortable.” “We want to create fashion that is marketed in a way that doesn’t make the customer feel bad about their body or their gender expression,” says Alexzander. The campaign also features models from Atlanta’s queer community, including those with diverse ethnicities and body types. Recently, GenderFlux kicked off 2015 with a new campaign to promote gender variant vocabulary its line of T-shirts use gender-fluid symbols and words like “gendervariant” and “non-binary” emblazoned across the front. Though other fashion companies, like London-based Selfridges, are jumping on the non-binary trend, Alexzander hopes his GenderFlux designs will transcend the runway and create a dialogue about gender identities. The brand-launched by a crowdfunding campaign that garnered pre-orders for 300 T-shirts-espouses the celebration of gender variance and encourages its visibility. When I started my fashion blog, I quickly realized I wasn’t the only one.”Ī year later, Alexzander’s idea for GenderFlux was born. “I had a hard time finding clothes that fit my body and still allowed me to express who I am. “This came from my personal struggles,” says Alexzander, over the phone from his Atlanta home base. What he didn’t expect was how well received his posts on gender variant style would become-garnering him a fierce following and sparking a business idea that would cater to him and his fans. Which is what propelled the 22-year-old designer to create House of Alexzander, a personal Tumblr blog that combines fashion with cultural critique. Each part will include a two-week group screening, and a live discussion.įor more information, contact program -fluid blogger Elliott Alexzander couldn’t find something to wear-at least, initially. The series will run in four thematic parts from June 23 through August 18, 2021. Man is presented here as one of five films and videos in Part Two | Gendering, Disgendering, Transgendering, the second of four programs in the online series Me, You, and Everyone We Know: Interrelationality, Alterity, Globalization programmed by Irmgard Emmelhainz for e-flux Video & Film. This is the second time they draw on the essay “Craftsmanship” (1937) by Virginia Woolf, this time to deconstruct gender identity during their own pregnancy. They use the deconstruction of language to dismantle other systems-political, sexual, economic, or cultural. For a decade, Borg has been exploring the semantics of visual language in their work, experimenting with form to push content beyond the limits of established thought. The film is a truly experimental expression of form-hand-processed super 8mm film combined with watercolor-negative animation timelapses of a pregnancy shot frame by frame, day by day bookended by a series of self-portraits where the filmmaker is satirizing their own use of particular attire, generally read as masculine, becoming revelatory when posed in the context of the pregnant body. Man is an expansion of gender and language, a journey of physical transformation through the wilderness of pregnancy echoed by the sole remaining recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice. Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Maja Borg's Man, (2016), streaming from Wednesday, July 7 through Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
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