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Psychandrogyny (adjectives: psychandrogynous/psychandrogyne): psychological androgyny; ascribing the conceptualization or the consideration of being psychically/psychally androgynous/androgyne; example: neurogender gynandry, mental/brain sex; internal/immaterial mixed gender roles; belief in/self-determination towards being both masculinely and femininely gendered; self-recognition. A psychigender.

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Physiandrogynous/Physiandrogyne: someone who considers themself to be materially/physically androgynous/androgyne; experiencing corporeal/bodily androgyny. It can mean multiple things: therian gynandromorphism; intersex/altersex traits; external/extrapersonal presentation; titty bearded; physiologically ambisexed/bisexed; tangible/fathomable body/biosex; medical transition. A physigender.

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Androgyne  Fashion + Gender

Patrick Mauriès

Thames&Hudson, London 2017, 191 pages,  24.89 x 34.29 cm, 120 illustrations in color and black and white, Hardcover, ISBN  978-0500519356

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The first visually led exploration of androgyny—from representations in antiquity to its current prevalence in the fashion world and beyond

In January 2011, Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture runway show ended with the image of a willowy blonde bride in a diaphanous gown. The bride was a man, and one of the first models to walk for both men’s and women’s collections. The event marked the start of a trend. “This ad is gender neutral,” proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; “I resist definitions,” announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year, while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith wearing a skirt.

The art of Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau, the writings of Oscar Wilde, and the mystic Joséphin Péladan prove that the turn of the previous century was as compelled by androgyny as this one. From the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, the genders have blended: from Berlin in the 1920s to Hollywood of the 1930s with Garbo and Dietrich; from the 1940s Bright Young Things to the androgynous pop stars of the 1970s, and beyond.

Patrick Mauries presents a cultural history of androgyny—accompanied by a striking selection of more than 120 images, from nineteenth-century painting to contemporary fashion photography—drawing on the worlds of art and literature to give us a deeper understanding of the strange but timeless human drive to escape from defined categories.

30/03/23

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A lot of artists post about flamboyant Hans lately, after finding a perfect top while roaming the pinterest, i knew it i have to make one!

Maybe i should make Elsa in a suit later.

Seeing men in drag or being “feminine” causes no reaction in me since I don’t care about things like others’ gender expression or sexuality. Yet I recognize right away that they’re a part of Kyo’s art.

And here’s what I find really interesting: in his case, it’s like a channeling of those qualities. I’m not sure if that explains it. Some dude said it’s more that “he becomes it” and I thought it means that he’s channeling this female/sexual energy into his expression.

And that’s different from those bands that dress “like women”, or drag queens, transvestites, or even actual trans women. It makes more of an impact to me that he does that, because he’s a straight man.

But that’s not all there’s to it. 

When I see him do that there’s definitely a reaction because there’s a feeling to it that is unbound and purely instinctual. It’s genuine. He’s said that there are many types of love, and he wants to show all of them. I think that’s why it feels so primal to me, because it’s not an expression of individuality or identity, but of love. There’s a quality of selflessness in love that self-expression doesn’t possess. It goes beyond any construct, be it social or self-imposed. It transcends any logical barrier, and even defies the course that’s been set by our own life experience. This expression of love is present in everyone, regardless of gender or sexuality. He’s acknowledging that, accepting it, and embracing it so fully that he “becomes it”. 

It can’t even be compared to a drag queen show or trans girls marching with their tits out at Pride, or visual kei. I feel nothing seeing those things but this, for instance…

Or this…

It’s like watching someone conveying both yin and yang, male and female. And all the tones in between. That is, all the ways in which these two qualities meld, and then that fusion relates with another, in an expression of desire or need. He becomes not one with the witness, but whole. I find it alluring. It just draws me in.

Because I’m not gay, it isn’t sexual attraction [my tone]. I just recognize that this female energy is also present in every man, even though most won’t show it or even acknowledge it. He freely and fearlessly shows it, and he does it so well. It’s like he has no limits.

No matter what is being expressed: self, desire, love...although to me there’s nothing more important than being unrestrained, I can see that having your expression acknowledged and accepted fulfills a human need for love and belonging that not too many people are capable of giving you, unless they know you and care about you.

But he, though he might not know you, accepts you. That’s a kindness we often won’t grant strangers. It’s rooted in love, in actually knowing love, and comes from a place of self-acceptance. You are a stranger, but you’re not strange, is what he’s telling you. Probably.