Fluid NatureAsexual, Bisexual, pansexual, gender fluid -and every other type of sexuality twitter and that weird girl with a bleached, shaved head and a thousand tatos and piercings in places you never thought could be pierced, will tell you there is, can often seem strenuously extravagant. These separations and diversions of sexuality and gender shows the progression of a generation in a society that is learning to see things more as a scale than holistic options.
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There was a time during my youngen years- basically a year and a half ago, when lesbian length short hair, baggy clothes from the boy section and male perfume was the height of my gender identity. The belief the these more 'masculine' appeals would some how balance out my more feminine silhouete to create a netural gender ground was possibly the only other time aside from my birth
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when style was a secondary consideration. Realizing by no fault of my own that collectively I looked like an indecisive mess, which most teenagers jailed by school uniform and regulations, undecided on their own style and personalities, are. In seclusion the elements of my aesthetic was a performance intending to appease my gender neutral agenda however in context
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I looked like a boy going through puberty and whose mother just allowed him to start dressing himself, who is actually a girl. Which I was except my mother allowed my to choose my clothes myself since age 5, purely trying to avoid my trantrum with her well intended but never pleasing selection of dress for the day.
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"Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. It's when you can't decide if someone is a girl or boy based on their aesthetic"
Today we accept this as androgyny. The likes of Ruby Rose, Slick Woods, Miley Cyrus, Adowa Aboah, Jaden Smith and a plethora of other models and instagram stars who have been spurred on by brands and magazines like Fenty, i-D, DAZE, Paper and instagram of course, have all streamlined the concept of unstreamlined sexuality and gender. Whilst I no longer have any sentiments of denying my femininity I do find solace in dress that screams much less than my usual femme fetal uniform consisting of dresses, skirts and heels sharp enough to deflate a Kardashian if someone had to try hard enough and screamed YEEZY while doing it. There is such comfort in dressing with male understones. No need to sit cross leged, no need to sit up straight, no need to fret if your skirt is long enough while sitting- which it n e v e r is. Perhaps it is the solace is having a slight sense on male privelege or a sense of safety in thinking no one is going to disturb you. After all who would want to confuse such turmoil.
Words/Styling/Direction: Kiara Danielle Pather
Shots: Sagel Padayachee |
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