...In the het cis world I'm a hairy female-bodied freak and I'm kind of OK with that. I'm representing a life worth living. I am for femme beards, butch beards, trans* beards, genderqueer beards, transvestite beards, drag beards, post-menopausal beards, PCOS beards, and female beards of all varieties. I think that the beard, as an attribute of that unmarked identity - the white cisgender male - needs to be displaced. We need to make visible those other beards that have been erased from history, depilated into oblivion, yearned for, induced, born of artiface, and set free after years of repression.

15 cm x 11 cm, 20 pages.

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When I was in my last year of university I had a lover who surprised me by saying ze not only didn't like hir period but felt mostly like a man and asked what would I think if ze had hir breasts removed. Fine, I said, I love you, not breasts. Around this time another friend of mine came back from the USA with tranny porn and stories of trans* Pride marches and radical gender variant communities. Cool, I thought. Gender is an oppressive construct. Down with patriarchy! Down with gender, oppression! That's feminist, right? Or is it?

21 cm x 15 cm, 32 pages.

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