Saturday, September 19, 2009

He is giving me homework

So Aiden sent me some links to other videos and docs about transgender people. And about genderqueer people, which is something absolutely new to me. "Genderqueer" means that you don´t conform either with being a girl or a boy, so you choose to be both. Uh?
I don´t know how I feel about this. Maybe it is a bit too much. At least, this is how I felt before watching the videos.
Afterwards, yeah, it is still a bit awkward, but there is one aspect of being genderqueer that I really liked. One of the subjects featured said something on the lines of "I disagree with the sex I was born into, so I am challenging that." Challenging. The series are called "Gender Rebel." That means, it is a matter of being critical thinkers, a matter of looking at what was given to them and questioning it. Analizing it. Then rebeling against it. I like that! They dare to question and challenge the notion of "nature" and, considering the incredible amount of nonsense that gets justified in the name of "nature" I think that to question nature is something we need to do. I feel like being genderqueer is like being an anarchist, but regarding gender instead of politics. Nice move.
Now that I think about it, I can see this becoming a trend among anarchists in South America. "CuestiĆ³nalo todo" ("question everything") they say: I can see them adopting a gender-fluid appearence because of the implied statement: gender should be looked at with a critical eye. The current understanding of gender as a static notion justified in the name of nature needs to be challenged.
Can´t wait to be back home and see if I can find any anarchists who have already made the connection.

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