Awesome.
I'm wondering just what makes the genderfuck look the standard by which queer women in Toronto are judged by if, as you say, only "a pretty small margin of people who fit into what a queer woman is "supposed" to look like."
I mean, how is the standard enforced? How does it make itself known?
I once went to Toronto, and I'll just say it like I'm sure most of the tourists do: it was pretty!
I really think that the more people pick up on how powerful of an affect typing has on not only what is expected from communities (this compulsion to create a norm) AND that our sexualities typically shape to accomodate the norm...we're going to realize that our sexualities are actually the SITES of needed activism a lot more than we once thought!
alex,
what seems to make this the norm in this community is the people who occupy public queer spaces, the people who are pictured on posters, the way spaces are made to be accessible (or not), etc. it's made known when people who don't fit into that norm feel ignored or don't get hit on or don't feel like they can hit on others, etc.
thanks for your feedback!
-[f]b
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