EROTICASHION | Valentino è l'unica maison inclusiva della primavera haute couture 2022
EROTICASHION | Valentino è l’unica maison inclusiva della primavera haute couture 2022
Una delle poche case d’alta moda a fare la differenza quest’anno è stata Valentino, guidata dal fashion designer Pierpaolo Piccioli. Dopo la triste scomparsa di Alber Elbaz l’anno scorso, un peccato perché lo stilista era riuscito a dare una ventata di freschezza all’haute couture con AZ factory, sembra che a raccogliere il suo scettro sia stato Pierpaolo, anche chiamato il couturier del…
Trans* is an umbrella term that refers to all of the identities within the gender identity spectrum. There’s a ton of diversity there, but we often group them all together (e.g., when we say “trans* issues). Trans (without the asterisk) is best applied to trans men and trans women, while the asterisk makes special note in an effort to include all non-cisgender gender identities, including transgender, transsexual, transvestite, genderqueer, genderfluid, non-binary, genderfuck, genderless, agender, non-gendered, third gender, two-spirit, bigender, and trans man and trans woman.
When you start any novel, what do you notice first about the narrator? I imagine concurrent to style of voice, you make immediate assumptions about gender. I, in fact, often actively search for narrators of a certain gender. I imagine there are some readers out there that actively avoid narrators of a certain gender. Actually, the old chestnut that they like to sell writers is that girls will read stories about boys and girls, but boys are only interested in stories about boys. #alternativefact
So, then, what do you do when the narrator’s answer to “boy or girl” is a simple nod?
Riley is starting at a new high school halfway through the four arduous years, a terrifying plight for any narrator, but exacerbated more acutely by the fact that Riley identifies as “gender fluid,” - as male or female or anywhere along the spectrum on any given day. Compound this situation by a congressman father running for re-election and an accidental fame-by-blog-post scenario and you’ve got the makings of a modern cyber hero - and heroine - tale.
The book came out five minutes ago and has already been recognized as a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection by American Library Association, among Most Anticipated Debuts by Barnes & Noble, and in 5 YA Novels You Need to Read in the First Half of 2016byHuffington Post. The list of notable mentions is exhaustively long this far. And why?
Well, it’s a fun read to be sure, but what is perhaps most notable about this book is that like all good fiction, it manages to implicate the reader in its exploration. Heck, the gender-fluid narrator is even self-critical. Why are we all so eager to categorize? To label? To break down? Is a thing defined less scary? More relatable? Or is it simply habit? A result of a lifetime of pronouns we’ve been fed and regurgitated? Or, it is more insidious? Is it segregated children’s toy aisles and blue and pink cake reveals and seventy-seven cents on the dollar? Why do we see the world how we do, and why do we cling so ferociously to our arbitrary classifications?
Symptoms of Being Human is destined to join the ranks of the young modern underdog tales like Wonder, Eleanor & Park,andCurious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. It’s a story we’ve never heard before from a narrator we didn’t know we needed - a narrator who invites us to see the world from a slightly less-defined perspective.
I’ve added 4 new Pride cakes to my LGBT+ collection this month to celebrate!!! The new cakes include the new lesbian flag (the one I’ve seen the most of at least), the abrosexual flag, the agender flag, and lastly the gender fluid flag.
In total I know have 12 cakes in total on sale on both my online stores.
You can find me on Etsy under Darkmagic Sketchbook and on Redbubble under darkmagicswh!!!
I hope this will be one gay artist you feel like supporting either by buying, sharing, or even liking this post. :3
