Genders and genres
Just as there are multiple genres, there are multiple genders. The idea of gender is strongly linked to performing genres that are not limited by the categories of male and female. Connecting ideas of gender with the possibilities of genres, the word gender can only be rendered in plural and therefore in multiple possibilities.
Prayer book 1350, page 23 from Manuscript and Rare Book Collection at the University of Bergen Library.
The Annunciation according to Mikey Pinero (cupcake and Paco) by Martin Wong, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 183 cm. Syracuse University Art Museum/ Bridgeman Images, with permission from The Martin Wong Foundation and P·P·O·W, New York.
– And so? Listen, Blackie, i want to tell you something. You drive me crazy. I am in despair. Boy. I am addicted to you. I want to be yours and you be mine. What do you want me to do for you?
– Leave me be. I am not gay.
The Annunciation according to Mikey Pinero (cupcake and Paco). Syracuse University Art Museum.
Poster from Skeive dager, 1997.
Illustration: Bjørn Brochmann. From the archive of Siri Kvalheim, Skeivt arkiv, the University of Bergen Library.
Trans X nr. 3, juni 2006. From Skeivt arkiv, the University of Bergen Library.
Theater Varieté, 1890. From Teatersamlingen, the University of Bergen Library.
Rasmus Christian Olaus Sandal, actor, instructor and director at Den Nationale Scene
From the archive of Teatersamlingen, the University of Bergen Library.
Dispril no. 1, 1995. Fanzine by Thomas Persson and Morten Magnus.
From the archive of Reidar Engesbak, Skeivt arkiv, the University of Bergen Library.
Berg & Høeg. Preus Museum.
In Spanish, gender is marked in the personal pronoun plural. Nosotros and nosotras refer to "we" in the masculine and feminine genders. By replacing the vowels a and o with x, the pronoun's gender specification is neutralized.
By Dr. Med. Anton Nyström, 1920.