A Thousand Tiny Sexes

A publication project that seeks to creatively reimagine sex

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Sex/Gender Library

An on-going archive of art projects, books, websites, articles and groups. If you have something for the library, email it to us.

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.

Love Art Lab

The T-Gina Comics Archive

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.

Virdzina (1991)

Transamerica (2005)

Shortbus (2006)

Ma vie en rose (1997)

Glen or Glenda (1953)
Directed by Ed Wood

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

Websites

VAL Desjardins :: 2007

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

This American Life- Sissies

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

CTheory.net

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.

Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Theories of Representation and Difference): Books: Elizabeth Grosz

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.