Drafts by Leena-Maija Rossi
Crossing Gender Boundaries : Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend, ed. by Andrew Reilly, and Ben Barry,, 2020
Acknowledged by many as the year that the term 'transgender' fully entered American mainstream co... more Acknowledged by many as the year that the term 'transgender' fully entered American mainstream consciousness, 2015 marked a distinct cultural watershed. Models, media stars and activists were coming out with their transgender identities (Griggs 2015). At the same time, and without coincidence, the world of fashion took up the issue. Transgender models such as Lea T walked the runways, and Andreja Pejic was featured in the May issue of Vogue. Designers and brands also openly revealed a new gender consciousness, or even strove beyond gender dichotomy. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell (2015) crystallized the moment by writing for The Atlantic: 'Indeed, unisex everything appears to be back with a vengeance'. Yet this was not merely the 1960s unisex revisited. The phenomenon encompassed, but also moved beyond, avant-gardist designers and high-fashion brands, and in the united states extended further than the 'fashion center' of New York city (Chrisman-Campbell 2015; Leach 2015). It came to the British high street when in March 2015, selfridges in London opened its agender department consisting of three floors (selfridges 2015; Tsjeng 2015). Zara followed suit exactly one year later (sharkey 2016). The New York Times Style Magazine published fashion spreads on gender-blending menswear, representing androgynous Black models (New York Times 2015). According to Harper's Bazaar, among eighteen ' fashion moments' of 2015 were: caitlyn Jenner appearing on the cover of the July issue of Vanity Fair, photographed by Annie Leibovitz; kanye West's two-gender ambiguous Yeezy collections; Rick Owens' spring 2016 collection, featuring models strapped together walking the runway, redolent of performances by Leigh Bowery; but also some distinctly binary-gendered examples. Therefore, we can ask whether, in the third millennium, fashion can serve to make and unmake genders, and in what way this making and possible unmaking of genders affects the way sexuality is performed (Bain 2017).
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Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Out of the Ordinary , 2019
Intersectionality has been one of the most debated concepts in recent feminist, queer, and critic... more Intersectionality has been one of the most debated concepts in recent feminist, queer, and critical race studies as well as in studies concerning neo-and postcolonial situations, multicultural issues, migration, or transnationality. Intersectionality has also been harshly criticized as a "buzzword" without clear methodology, or theoretical bases. It has been feared to become a depoliticized academic concept emptied out of specificity and content by universalizing and abstract talk. In our chapter, however, we aim to focus on the potential productive power intersectionality might have, for example, when critically applied to the narratives of cultural homogeneity and “the ordinariness” of the majority. This potential may also be called politics of narrative diversifying.
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Porn Studies, 2019
The article looks at how the Western art world got interested in the pornographer Tom of Finland,... more The article looks at how the Western art world got interested in the pornographer Tom of Finland, who made arousing drawings explicitly for a gay audience. The text was published in a Forum section of Porn Studies (Issue 1/2019, vol. 6), edited by Susanna Paasonen.
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