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Practice Makes Perfect
The body is not a "mute facticity" (scientific fact) but a discursive inscription. The fluidity of gender expression supports this fact. If sexuality were fixed gender would not exist outside of binary dualism's. In other words, gender is recited or practiced repeatedly based on the constructiveness of the body
"Gender is repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame" On Judith Butler and Performativity
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The very base foundational equation of gender is . . .
Body
Sexuality
Attraction
Gender
Expression
GENDER IS AN ACT THAT BRINGS INTO BEING WHAT IT NAMES . . . GENDER IDENTITIES ARE CONSTRUCTED AND CONSTITUTED BY LANGUAGE, MEANING NO GENDER IDENTITY PROCEEDS LANGUAGE"
Butler/Gender Trouble
Butler "Gender proves to be the performance that is, constituting the identity it is purported."
When we identity as "x" or "y" gender, that performance is creating the "x" and "y" expression of identification. The means of gender are inseparable from the end's
Gender identity is reinforced and maintained through signified acts the body "mirrors." All of Butlers concepts are linked together in a constructive or deconstructive context
Putting a narrative together
"John notices that his sexual urges are in proportion to his proximity with women's clothing (signified act). Using this feedback (stylization of the body) John begins experimenting wearing women's clothing (perfomative), which allows him more control and expression over his body (genesis of gender narrative).
Use the spectrum's on the genderbread man to work with your fictional character and their struggle with identity
* gender identity
*gender expression
*Biological sex
*sexual attraction
* Romantic attraction
Get into groups of three or four
* Create a "case study," or hypothetical scenario of an individual dealing with an equation of body, sexuality and gender
* This can be questioning or challenging gender roles, discovering attractions or gender conflicting with societal norms, to name a few
* Try to create as many details as possible about your individual(s) narrative psychologically, culturally, familial, relationships, addictions/mental health, anything that you want to add to each variable . . . body, sexuality and gender
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With the information given by the genderbreadman do the following:
Create your own measurements of gender identity . . .
Body image/experience
Sexuality, performance, attraction
Gender identity: a combination of every spectrum
* What part of the body, sexuality, attraction and gender equation stood out for you and why?
* What issues or problems arose with your character?
* In what ways did you help or support your engendered character?
*What personal issues or agenda's did you notice in the process?
Genderman
* What tools of the genderman did you use and how did they inform your characters identity
* With the genderman how would you fully express your character(s) gender?
*Were there any points in the process that you developed your own spectrum of body, sex, attraction and gender
What gender are you?
What does your gender say about you?
What does your body say about gender?
"Feasible representation," Butlers notion of the props and matter that make gender possible. Asking ?'s about gender is really about questions pertaining to these prop's . . . What might some of these props be?
Gender ceases to be gender once it becomes a concept (sign)
This is why people feel their sexuality, their sensual relational capacity is never fully captured because the signified is always an epiphenomena
What gender are you?
What does your gender say about you?
What does your body say about gender?
"Feasible representation," Butlers notion of the props and matter that make gender possible. Asking ?'s about gender is really about questions pertaining to these prop's . . . What might some of these props be?
What "other" defines your gender???
"Man thinks himself without woman. Woman does not think herself without man. And she is nothing other than what man decides; she is thus called the "sex," meaning that the male sees her essentially as a sexed being; for him she is sex, so she is it in the absolute. She is determined and differentiated in relation to man." p.6
Self/other dualism as crucible for gender light and gender shadow