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anjelica huston – not caitlyn jenner – appearing in the next series of transparent. Rumour had it that Caitlyn Jenner might be making an appearance in the second season of the award-winning show Transparent, but so far, zero confirmation. But one big name who is joining the cast is Hollywood superstar, Anjelica Huston. The show's creator, Jill Soloway told Variety that Huston will be playing a new friend to main character Maura (played by Jeffrey Tambor, who just picked up an award for lead actor in a comedy series at the Emmys).
And it's not a flash in the pan cameo either: "Maybe she'll be back for Season 3," Soloway said. "They have a lot of chemistry… palpable chemistry! " She's also said that the next season, which includes performances from Hari Nef, Kiersey Clemons and Petra Collins, will be "wild" and "wacky. " The show has been praised for its portrayal of trans people, admired for its intersectionality and celebrated by critics. How legal equality brought on new challenges for gay men. On paper I tick every box of the privileged white gay man. And I find that a strange situation to be in. I'm in my (late) thirties, I go to the gym regularly, party occasionally and if I'm not flying over to Ibiza to visit friends, I'm visiting my boyfriend in Berlin.
I'm lucky enough to own my own home in London's Stockwell, right on the edge of the unrelenting tide of gentrification currently rolling through Vauxhall. On top of that, I even work for a gay magazine. I've been to Pride events in Sydney, San Francisco, London, Madrid and Amsterdam. I exist in a world where I am comfortable with my sexuality, and even proud of it. I was born in Croydon. At school I used the name 'Cliff' to fit in, because my birth name (Kletus) sounded too foreign. While my parents were good people, they were intensely religious, attending the local Greek Orthodox Church regularly, upholding their traditions with pride. Even there, on the 'liberal' gay scene, people didn't identify me as British. Explore the meaning of trans. Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics is a new exhibition opening today at the 41 Cooper Gallery in New York's The Cooper Union.
With an emphasis on sculpture and performance, the exhibition chronicles the transgender experience across a variety of media, with each artist working with or responding to an existing body of archives. For instance, Chris Vargas' collage references the work of "fuckologist" John Money, as he considers the links between the psychedelia and self-actualisation movements in the 1960s, while other artists such as Justin Vivian and Flawless Sabrina turn to their own archives as a means of inspiration. Accompanying the show is a strong series of programmes whereby numerous performers will be occupying the space at various intervals, from live talk shows and readings, to film screenings and pop-up salons featuring trans-focused, printed matter.
Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics runs until November 14th Credits. how to build believable female characters for the cinema. If you think there isn't a problem with gender representation on screen, take even a cursory glance at the statistics. In cinema crowd scenes, women account for, on average, only 17% of the extras.
On children's television, men outnumber women three-to-one. These are just two of the numbers crunched by Thelma and Louise icon Geena Davis when she launched the third Global Symposium on Gender in Media at the London Film Festival last week. Someone who heard her speak was young film director Chanya Button, who this week debuts her female fronted road trip comedy Burn Burn Burn at the festival. The film - written by Charlie Covell, who penned the heartwarming lesbian romance episode of E4's Banana earlier this year - follows Seph [Laura Carmichael] and Alex [Chloe Pirri], two mates who have to scatter the ashes of their recently deceased friend Dan at various locations of his choosing across Britain. We see Seph's relationship in a harsh light and Alex's in all its complexities. Rise in gender-neutral clothing - Fashion | IOL Beta.
Frankfurt - It used to be the case that blue was for boys and pink for girls. But times have changed and growing numbers of clothing manufacturers are discarding old-fashioned man-woman garment rules and instead designing products that are genderless. “Entire product lines are being designed according to considerations of interest and function,” explains Verena Muntschick from the trend-research company Zukunftsinstitut in Frankfurt. “You won’t need to visit a department store and have to decide any more whether to go to the men’s or women’s department.” The British chain store Selfridges took this concept on board at the beginning of the year and test-launched its gender-neutral Agender fashion department.
“Instead of talking about unisex, I would start speaking about no-sex, because products are no longer about gender but about the person,” says the trend scout. The brand & Other Stories was launched by Swedish clothing company H&M in 2013. Retailers should ditch “men’s” and “women’s” departments and embrace genderless fashion. Gendered fashion is on the way out. Fashion designers are mixing menswear and womenswear on the runway. Parents are pushing for genderless clothing that allows little girls to, say, wear science-themed t-shirts instead of princess dresses. And Quartz fashion writers are asking: “Sex and gender aren’t perfectly binary. Why should clothes be?” To be sure, retailers like Gap, the North Face, and American Apparel have sold unisex clothing for years, though sizing is still typically cut across gender lines.
But moving toward a less gendered retail experience could also be a “business opportunity for retailers who create a comfort zone for people who don’t want to subscribe to one category,” writes market researcher NPD Group in a new e-book (pdf). Still, the argument makes sense. Some retailers are already moving in that direction. The store’s experiment hints that the appeal isn’t limited to women who want to escape the stylistic confines of conventional femininity. Selfridges unveils its agender fashion campaign at Oxford Street store.
From Cara Delevingne rocking a suit on the red carpet to Brad and Angelina wearing matching androgynous outfits to the BAFTAS, fashion icons have never been scared to experiment with gender. And one major retailing is jumping on the bandwagon by blurring the lines between men's and womenswear. Selfridges has launched a 'gender-neutral' fashion campaign encouraging consumers to buy clothes without being restricted to men's or women's fashions. Scroll down for video Selfridges has launched a 'gender-neutral' fashion campaign encouraging consumers to buy clothes without being restricted to men's or women's fashions as it opens the doors to its 'agender' shopping space The Oxford Street department store has axed its separate women and menswear departments in favour of three floors of unisex fashion.
Selfridges believe that shoppers no longer want to be defined or limited by their gender as to what they can wear. Selfridges launches gender neutral fashion campaign, Agender Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% How Getting Dressed As A Non-Binary Individual Is A Political Act. I've always thought that politics have a way of informing art and fashion. As a young lover of all things sartorial, watching Gaga strut in machine gun bras and meat dresses or admiring Jeremy Scott's critique of capitalist consumerism make it clear to me that fashion is political — even if sometimes the artist doesn't intend for it to be.
Personally, I believe all art is political. Whether we make conscious choices to reflect this or not, our creations mirror our personal experiences, struggles, and beliefs, therefore representing the inherent politics of each individual artist or human. For some, however, it is almost impossible to step away from this political identity. For trans and genderqueer people, as well as other gender non-conforming individuals, wearing clothes for the fun of it is rarely that simple. Fashion has always been an exciting way for me to express who I am. Super smash girlsA photo posted by DarkMatter (@darkmatterpoetry) on Tobia feels similarly. Zoolander’s offensive representation of transgender individuals leads to a boycott. Last week's release of the first trailer for the Zoolander sequel may have dominated the internet, but many people weren't laughing.
The trailer included an interaction between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson's characters—male models Derek Zoolander and Hansel—with a trans model called All, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Despite the success of breakthrough shows like Transparent and lauded films like Tangerine, there is still very little trans representation in the media. So it sucks to see any role not being given to a trans performer. But the film then decided to present Cumberbatch's character as a cartoonish caricature of transgender models. We assume the reference is to the success of models like Andreja Pejić and Hari Nef, but Cumberbatch's All is presented as an abnormality whose very existence confuses the film's stars.
If that wasn't cringe enough, Owen Wilson's character proceeds to ask them if they have a "hotdog or a bun". A comment so offensive it begs belief. Credits. Miley Cyrus Says She's Gender Fluid: 'It Has Nothing To Do With Any Parts of Me' As Miley Cyrus is working hard to advocate for sexuality and acceptance beyond the traditional boy-girl norms, she is revealing more and more about herself and her own journeys amidst the gender spectrum. In an interview with TIME to promote her #InstaPride campaign with Instagram to help share transgender and gender expansive stories, the pop star stated she doesn’t care for the labels boy or girl and identifies as gender fluid, even though that's not perfect either. Miley Cyrus Told Her Mom She Was Bisexual at 14 "I'm just equal," she said.
"I'm just even. It has nothing to do with any parts of me or how I dress or how I look. Cyrus has been sexually open and androgynous for years, she said, and was the person in Nashville growing up that other sexually curious teenage girls would go to: "They all wanted to experiment. Over the past years, Cyrus has aggressively shed the clean-cut Disney image of Hannah Montana that first defined her with out there acts often described as antics.
Underwear for trans people: the torture of binding, tucking and packing is over. Four years ago, Teddy Tinnell put on a compression garment on his chest for the first time and headed to a party. An hour later, the 21-year-old transgender man became so light-headed that friends had to pry the binder off him. Earlier that week, Tinnell had placed his order from Underworks, an online company that specializes in body sculpting products. It was a size too small but Tinnell persevered through the pain, desperate to cover up his breasts. Tinnell, a Colorado native, often bound his chest for 24 hours instead of the recommended eight, constricting his breathing in the process. Rashes were commonplace, too – Tinnell rarely washed his binder because he considered it, unlike regular underwear, an extension of his body. “The parts of our bodies that are the most dysphoric need the most tenderness and love,” he said.
For transgender people, finding functional and attractive undergarments is difficult. Wearing underwear plays a huge part in shaping a trans person’s identity. Gay marriage declared legal across the US in historic supreme court ruling | US news. Same-sex marriages are now legal across the entirety of the United States after a historic supreme court ruling that declared attempts by conservative states to ban them unconstitutional.
In what may prove the most important civil rights case in a generation, five of the nine court justices determined that the right to marriage equality was enshrined under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Victory in the case – known as Obergefell v Hodges, after an Ohio man who sued the state to get his name listed on his late husband’s death certificate – capped years of campaigning by LGBT rights activists, high-powered attorneys and couples waiting decades for the justices to rule. It immediately led to scenes of jubilation from coast to coast, as campaigners, politicians and everyday people – gay, straight and in-between – hailed “a victory of love”. “They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law,” Kennedy wrote in his opinion for the majority.
‘The arc of history is quite clear’ Is the petition to ‘drop the t’ from ‘lgbt’ transphobic? Seven days ago an anonymous man claiming to represent "a group of gay/bisexual men and women," launched a change.com petition asking GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, and media outlets like Advocate and OUT to "stop representing the transgender community. " He explains that his "group" believes the trans community's ideology "is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men.
" The petition then outlines the ways in which the ideologies of the trans and gay and lesbian communities supposedly diverge. Advocate reports that the president of GLAAD, Kate Ellis, has already responded to the petition, saying, "GLAAD stands firmly with the transgender community and unequivocally rejects the outrageous and destructive idea that the 'T' be removed from LGBT. " T for togetherness! Credits. caitlyn jenner tops the out 100 list. OUT, the USA's biggest gay magazine, has released its annual OUT 100, and Caitlyn Jenner is top of the list.
She was named "newsmaker of the year" for her high-profile outing as transgender through her Vanity Fair cover and numerous public appearances, including her powerful speech at the ESPY Award ceremony. Jenner is joined by i-D favourites including model Andreja Pejic, rapper and producer Le1F, model and actress Hari Nef, musician Shamir, artist, model and activist Juliana Huxtable and fashion designer Jeremy Scott. Also from the world of fashion were Diesel Creative Director Nicola Formichetti and designer Prabal Gurung.
Actor Russell Tovey made the grade, largely due to his appearance in gay San Francisco show Looking, and Lee Daniels (photographed with artist Kehinde Wiley) hit the list thanks to his hugely popular TV show, Empire. Olly Alexander from Years & Years was a priority pick, along with Sex And The City's Cynthia Nixon and musician, artist and writerCarrie Brownstein. Ain’t gender a drag? "I don't relate to being boy or girl," pop provocateur and LGBTQ youth charity founder Miley Cyrus explained in an interview earlier this year. "And I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl," she added. Cyrus has spoken about struggling with gender expectations as a child, saying that she resented being a girl. "I didn't want to be a boy," Miley told Out, "I kind of wanted to be nothing.
I don't relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy, and I think that's what I had to understand: being a girl isn't what I hate, it's the box that I get put into. " The nipple-flashing, armpit-hair-baring musician is clear that her gender doesn't define her, nor does her sexuality. For as long as pop culture has existed, there have been celebrities who challenge traditional ideas about gender, about how women and men should dress, dance, walk and talk. Gender is certainly a focus of the global media, but does understanding and acceptance necessarily flow from visibility?
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