1000 TINY SEXES
A collaborative book project by kanarinka and Jaimes Mayhew
Call For Submissions
A Thousand Tiny Sexes is a print publication project that seeks to reimagine sexgender (gender and sex) as political, economic, legal, cultural, and biological categories.
We are seeking 1000 creative definitions of sexgender in text format. While definitions of sex and/or gender from dictionaries, encyclopedias and other references are interesting, that's not what we are looking for. We want you to (re)imagine sexgender 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 sexgender in everyday life.
We will collect submissions until we have accepted 1000 definitions. The definitions will be published as a book. Send your definitions to 1000tinysexes@gmail.com.
Why Sexgender?
This project seeks to create a collective reimagining of sexgender (gender and sex) as a biological, legal, political, economic and cultural category. We want to catalyze creative thinking about the ways that sexgender is multiple (more than just MALE and FEMALE) and the ways that sexgender 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 gender box.
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.
You will note that we are using sexgender as one word. This is because we do not believe that the two 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.
For more information, visit the 1000 Tiny Sexes website.