think-outside-the-gender-binary is THE now credo! few happenings:
• the “mx” honorific being this close to be officially included by the oxford dictionary to its next edition, as a way to represent all those who do not want define as “mr” or “ms”, “over the past two years, ‘mx’ has seen a surge in acceptance and is now recognised on official documents such as driving licenses and bank statements”…
•• we live in the same world where facebook and google+ have added that new ‘infinite’ gender options for users
••• the american comedy-drama television series “transparent”, produced by picrow for amazon studios, debuted on february 6 last year, the story revolves around a LA family and their lives following the discovery that the person they knew as their father Mort is transgender
•••• trans models (from hari nef to andreja pejic), besides the fact that they are trans and models, they are also been found to burn up the runway, mm
••••• selfridge’s ‘agender’ pop-up department, aiming to create a ‘genderless shopping experience’, is claimed to represent one of the hottest initiatives in fashion this year, and in retail all the more
last but hey not least, coufme was yesterday part of the freaky funny audience at the official preview of my model / myself exhibition by (con)temporary artist mx (number one and most well-known representative of the mxs) justin vivian bond (the exhibition is open to visitors from today, may 6) at vitrine gallery, groundbreaking name among the variety of Bermondsey art spaces.
interesting enough, mx bond draws his/her(?) exposition as “a journey to escape traditional gender roles through a
capitalist
phantasm
of self-creation
as a survival
mechanism”
zeitgayst!
or a subtle peek into a darwinian evolution chapter?