Making the X Multiple: “Y the X?” - Incite at Columbia University
Incubated Project
Making the X Multiple: “Y the X?”
- Funding Program The Breakdown/ (Re)generation Project
- Affiliated Departments Columbia College Department of History Department of Sociology Center for Science and Society
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Project Lead
- Madisson Whitman Center for Science and Society
As a novel gender marker, the X represents a reaction to shifting norms surrounding what was previously a formal gender binary; through flattening a broad spectrum of genderqueer experiences into one isolated category, it reconstitutes the validity of the gender marker system and M/F as the standard.
Through a website that serves as part oral history and part art installation, Madisson Whitman and team intend to present the people behind the X in all their complexity, regenerating a spectrum of (gender)queer meanings while challenging gender markers’ essentialist meaning. As an analog means of dissemination that is conscious of the richness of queer tradition, the team will also publish a zine compilation of their interviews and art.
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