On Mackinaw island in Northern MI, where cars are prohibited and only people of color serve you your dinner, I ventured by ferry with a group of progressive queers to the Grand Hotel for dinner and to present my piece Talkin' Trash in the Homo No Mo Halfway House.
Last week in an e-mail the queer non-profit sponsoring the event informed us,
So on Saturday I bought a skirt that went beautifully with my Zegna summer weight charcoal gray suit.
Gender Queer, I marched through the dinning room, a living performance art piece. The racial/class divide in the room grieved me. (Knowing too that my own white male privilege enabled me to take these steps).
Time constraints kept me from doing my prepared prsentation, instead I spoke about the power of telling our stories, of white male power and privilege and the need for this particular foundation to learn from the scholars about how to not only be inclusive but to become liberating.
And I felt liberated in a whole new way.
Preach the Gospel at all times, when necessary, use words St. Francis of Assisi
Last week in an e-mail the queer non-profit sponsoring the event informed us,
Men are required to wear a coat and tie and women a dress or pant suit.Okay, that pissed me off. Boys dress like this and girls dress like that. Whose rules do we follow?
So on Saturday I bought a skirt that went beautifully with my Zegna summer weight charcoal gray suit.
Gender Queer, I marched through the dinning room, a living performance art piece. The racial/class divide in the room grieved me. (Knowing too that my own white male privilege enabled me to take these steps).
Time constraints kept me from doing my prepared prsentation, instead I spoke about the power of telling our stories, of white male power and privilege and the need for this particular foundation to learn from the scholars about how to not only be inclusive but to become liberating.
And I felt liberated in a whole new way.
Preach the Gospel at all times, when necessary, use words St. Francis of Assisi
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A friend of mine, who is married-with-two-kids and a happy heterosexual, wears skirts in his spare time. He's a big guy, and no one would mistake him for a woman, but he just likes wearing skirts, not to be a hellraiser or anything, it's just part of who he is.
And he pulls it off, too. It doesn't look incongrous, in fact, skirts look quite good on him. So yes, I say we should have more men wearing skirts. And dresses. Yes, frilly dresses with bows and short pleated skirts...
Er, sorry, getting a little carried away there. Anyway, you go! W0000T!
and especially after this!
~Annika
Why do the excluded exclude? It makes no sense to me.
Peace
Clint
And I really need the reminder that you close with: Preach the Gospel at all times; when necessary, use words.
Blessings,
Liz, The Good Raised Up
http://jaysennett.typepad.com/jay_sennetts_blog/2005/07/peterson_toscan.html
I bow to you in gratitude.
When people usually think of dress codes the last thing in their minds is a grown man wearing a dress lol.Seriously if I saw a man wearing what I see you wearing in the picture,I would say stay away from that guy he looks nuts.
And that's what their reaction was.It's totally normal I seen it happen before lol.I seriously don't get the dress statement though. Female wannabe statement?
Men can wear dresses and it can not look funny as hell?
I can see why it is the way it is.Girls and guys match their stereotyped clothes because it matches nature. Look back at caveman times you see a man in shorts and cape and a woman wearing a dress.
I'm pretty sure that cavewomen had shorts too, but the caveman made a new dress code.