Call For Submissions
A Thousand Tiny Sexes is a print publication project that seeks to reimagine sex (sex as in “biological sex”, not the act of sex) as political, economic, legal, cultural, and biological categories.
We are seeking 1000 creative definitions of sex in text format. We want you to (re)imagine sex and to (re)define it. We are interested in collecting definitions that come from a wide variety of perspectives and speak to the different ways that people imagine and engage with sex in everyday life. Please carefully read the “Why Sex?” section below before submitting a definition.
We will collect submissions until we have accepted 1000 definitions. The definitions will be published as a book. Send your definitions to submissions (at) 1000tinysexes (dot) com .
Why Sex?
This project seeks to create a collective reimagining of sex and gender as biological, legal, political, economic and cultural categories. We want to catalyze creative thinking about the ways that sex is multiple (more than just MALE and FEMALE) and the ways that sex is performative, embodied, durational, contextual and contingent. We want people to use the resulting publication to experiment with tiny ways to think outside of the sex/gender box, as an educational tool, and as a reference.
This is not to say that everyone can be all sexes, or that sex is a fashion choice that you can simply put on when you wake up.
Sex is not always biological, and this is why we have chosen to ask for submissions defining sex instead of gender. We do not believe that sex and gender can be distinguished in a clean, nature/nurture kind of way. Sex is always socially constructed and mutable. Gender is always embodied and biological. Sexgender is always infinitely mutable and embodied, constructed and biological in thousands of tiny ways. We welcome your thoughts about this.
Art Projects
Performing Politics: An Interview with Dayna McLeod | Art Threat | Political Art Magazine
Dayna McLeod is a Montréal-based performance artist and video maker… and she’s very funny. Winner of many prizes and awards, her work speaks to the masses with rare and powerful humour rooted in visionary feminist politics.
d e l l a g r a c e v o l c a n o
Gender-variant performance artist
ponylove by Sarah Paul
A human-pony love study for a rock opera about a futuristic omni-sexual cowboy rockstar and zis band of little ponies.
Morty Diamond's Year in Pink
This living arts piece will see Diamond wearing nothing but pink for an entire year.
Orozco Mexotica: Create Your Favorite Ethno-Techno Cyborg
A project by Guillermo Gomez-Peña. Create your favorite ethno-techno cyborg.
Articles
Performing Politics: An Interview with Dayna McLeod | Art Threat | Political Art Magazine
Dayna McLeod is a Montréal-based performance artist and video maker… and she’s very funny. Winner of many prizes and awards, her work speaks to the masses with rare and powerful humour rooted in visionary feminist politics.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan 'same-sex' couple jailed
A Pakistani court has jailed a married couple for three years for perjury after a dispute over the husband's sex.
Girl or Boy? As Fertility Technology Advances, So Does an Ethical Debate - New York Times
Pre-selection of a baby's sex before birth.
NOVA Online | Sex: Unknown | Two Sexes Are Not Enough
Article proposes 5 sexes, written by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Sulawesi's fifth gender
An article explaining the five genders in Indonesia.
Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear - New York Times
Brown, Patricia Leigh. "Supporting Boys Or Girls When the Line Isn’t Clear." New York Times, Dec 2, 2006, sec National: website.
Movies
Maggots and Men
A work in progress by Director Oakie Treadwell. Starring a cast of ftm, genderqueer and gender variant people, this film takes place in Russia in 1921.
Soldier's Girl
The true story of a young soldier beaten to death for falling in love with a transgendered nightclub performer.
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Directed by Ed Wood
Websites
BUCK ANGEL The Man with a pussy. Mangina man FTM Gay Porn 2007 AVN Award winner
This American Life- I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
Definition of sex - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Definition of gender - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Butch and femme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bio queen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drag queen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drag king - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Female - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Male - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Third gender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genderqueer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Intersexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Groups
LTTR V : Positively Nasty
LTTR is a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project oriented practice. LTTR produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings and collaborations.
Books and Essays
The Rules Top Ten Question Page
This is the website for the book The Rules, a book that tells single straight women how to act to get a man. Very interesting (for research only).
Gender and Performance - Harvard Syllabus
Some extensive and excellent readings on gender & performance from Robin Bernstein's class.
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
A terrific book about gender/sex non-comformity
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
Morty Diamond, ed
Born female yet little identified with that gender, these transgender, genderqueer, third gender, and gender variant writers offer personal insights into changing gender identity, dating, workplace issues, and more. This book shines lig
Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema By David A. Gerstner
Sworn Virgins: Cases of Socially Accepted Gender Change
'A tangle of multiple transgressions: The western gaze and the Tobelija (Balkan sworn-virgin-cross-dressers) in the 19th and 20th centuries'
Anthropology Matters Journal 2003-2. Aleksandra Djajic Horváth:
The Apartheid of Sex: Books: Martine Rothblatt
Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy: Books: C. Boundas
SEE ESSAY Grosz, Elizabeth. "A Thousand Tiny Sexes: Feminism and Rhizomatics". ed. Boundas, C. & Olkowski, D. Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy, Routledge, 1994.
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman: Books: Leslie Feinberg
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Books: Gilles Deleuze,Felix Guattari,Brian Massumi
"If we consider the great binary aggregates, such as the sexes or classes, it is evident that they also cross over into molecular assemblages of a different nature, and that there is a double reciprocal dependency between them. For the two sexes imply a m
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality: Books: Anne Fausto-Sterling
Amazon.com: Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre: Books: Sue-Ellen Case
see Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts & Gender Constitution". ed. Sue-Ellen Case. Performing Feminisms. Johns Hopkins, 1992.