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Gender Troublemakers (1993), dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay
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From 1993 to 1995, [Mirha-Soleil] Ross and partner Xanthra Phillippa MacKay published gendertrash from hell, a quarterly zine which "[gave] a voice to gender queers, who've been discouraged from speaking out & communicating with each other". They managed the zine's publisher, genderpress, which also distributed other transsexual pamphlets and literature, corresponded with local organizations and sold buttons.
In standard zine format, gendertrash was a combination of art, poetry, resource lists, serialized fiction, calls to action, classified ads, illustrations and collages and movie reviews. By and for transsexual, transgender and transvestite people, it addressed gender experiences at the individual and societal level and prioritized sex workers, low-income queers, trans people of colour and prisoners. Articles frequently addressed the erasure of transsexuals from lesbian, gay, bi and queer communities and the communities' co-opting of trans identities and issues. Four issues of gendertrash were published, and its run ended in 1995.
(“Dancing Wimmin” by Jeanne B [Mirha-Soleil Ross], from gendertrash issue #1, p. 9)
The Gendertrash from Hell zine issues on archive.org, link also contains the film Gender Troublemakers (1993)
Another link to the first issue (with the others in “related readings”, just below) this time on transreads.org
Wikipedia, genderoutlaws.tumblr.com, lgbtqdigitalcollaboratory.org.
#gendertrash from hell#mirha-soleil ross#xanthra philippa mackay#zines#trans#queer#film#gender troublemakers
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GENDER TROUBLEMAKERS (1993)
dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross & Xanthra Mackay
What happens when two Transdykes get sick of non-transsexual's uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimeter home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other trans women.
(link in title)
#lgbt cinema#trans cinema#gender troublemakers#gender troublemakers 1993#canadian cinema#lgbt#trans#transgender#lesbian#canada#lgbt movie#trans movies#canadian movies#lgbt film#trans film#canadian film#lgbt media#trans media#queer cinema#north american cinema#Mirha-Soleil Ross#Xanthra Mackay#1993#90s#1990s#90s movies#90s films#90s cinema#1990s movies#1990s cinema
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Noy You Can't by Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, Gendertrash from Hell Issue No.2, 1993
(note: "genetic" in this context means a cis person)
#gendertrash from hell#queer history#trans history#lgbt history#poetry#xanthra phillippa mackay#transphobia
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buttons created by xanthra phillippa mackay and mirha-soliel ross who created the zine series gendertrash from hell
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Xanthra Phillippa MacKay and Mirha-Soleil Ross, partners and co-publishers of Gendertrash From Hell | 1993
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Finally, an informational post on genderqueer identity!
(Image description: ten square images with blue, white, and lavender gradient backgrounds; every image has a border across the top and bottom with a thin black line framed by a black diamond on each side and every image also has black text.
1) Large centered text that reads "A Brief Introduction to Genderqueer History and Identity", below that is the instagram handle "@genderqueer.positivity"
2) "Genderqueer is a term that was created in the mid-1990's to cover a wide range of Queer experiences of gender, as well as marginalized gender identities and expressions. In its earliest usage, "gender queer" was a term for those who were Queer specifically because of gender, rather than sexuality."
3) "The earliest usage of "gender queer" comes from the April/May first edition of the zine GenderTrash From Hell, edited by Xanthra Phillippa Mackay." Below this is a quote from page 19 of the zine reading "gender queers & gender outlaws are what we & only we are, since lesbians & gays seem to think that queer means lesbian/gay (& sometimes bi) only".
4) "The terms "gender queer" and "gender trash" would appear in another set of zines two years later, the In Your Face newsletters published by Riki Anne Wilchins. It's unclear if Wilchins drew inspiration from the GenderTrash zines, or if she created these terms independently; however, she claims to have coined the term "genderqueer" and she is the one most commonly credited with creating and defining the term."
5) A quote that reads "I coined the term “genderqueer” back in the 1990s in an effort to glue together two nouns that seemed to me described an excluded and overlooked middle: those of us who were not only queer but were so because we were the kind of gender trash society couldn’t digest." Smaller text below attributes the quote to Riki Wilchins, from an advocate.com article titled "Get to Know the New Pronouns: They, Theirs, and Them"
6) A second quote that reads "It's about all of us who are genderqueer: diesel dykes and stone butches, leatherqueens and radical fairies, nelly fags, crossdressers, intersexed, transexuals, transvestites, transgendered, transgressively gendered, intersexed, and those of us whose gender expressions are so complex they haven't even been named yet." This quote is also attributed to Riki Wilchins and comes from the first edition of a gender activism newsletter called In Your Face, published in Spring 1995.
7) "Today, Genderqueer is both an umbrella term and a specific gender identity label. As an umbrella term, Genderqueer still covers a wide range of Queer experiences of gender. As the basis for a gender identity, Genderqueer can be used as a label by any person who feels that their gender is best described as Queer, or anyone who actively chooses to Queer their own gender identity and/or expression."
8) "Genderqueer is used by some individuals to describe having a gender identity outside of the male/female binary. However, it is also possible to have a binary or binary-aligned gender and be Genderqueer. Genderqueer can be used as a stand-alone label or as one of multiple gender-related labels used by an individual."
9) This slide has text along the bottom that says "This is the Genderqueer pride flag; this version was created by Marilyn Roxie in 2011." Above that is a square image of a Genderqueer pride flag on the left side; the flag has three stripes of the same width: a lavender stripe on top, a white stripe in the center, and a chartreuse green stripe on the bottom. To the right of the flag is text which describes what each color represents. Lavender represents "queerness and androgyny", white represents "gender neutrality and genderlessness", and green represents "genders unrelated to the binary".
10) The last slide has a stock photo in the top/center of the image; in the stock photo a person stands on a staircase with beige walls and a white ceiling in the background, holding a large genderqueer pride flag up to a natural light source which isn't visible in the picture, the person wears khaki pants, but otherwise can't be seen from behind the flag. Below the stock photo is text that reads "Genderqueerness is radically inclusive, deeply personal, fiercely political, and beautiful." After the sentence is the outline of a black heart emoji.)
#genderqueer#genderqueer history#queer#queer history#trans#gender#this took three weeks and i remade it twice#yes i chose the background because it looks so similar to the genderqueer flag#yes writing all of those image descriptions kicked my ass#op#genderqueerpositivity#i had to cut out a lot that i wanted to include in order to fit this into ten images#so i am considering a part two in the future
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GENDERTRASH
The ArQuives (Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives) created a digital exhibit on the zine “gendertrash” that was published in the early 90s. Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay collaborated to publish four issues of gendertrash which included a variety of articles, art, and resources. The ArQuives describes the zine as “explicitly political, discussing sex-work decriminalization, animal rights activism, the need for transsexual and transgender-specific health care and social services, racism, transphobia among the queer community, advocacy for trans prisoners, and much more.”[1] The digital exhibit provides the history behind the zine as well as an important conversation of the terminology used in the zine. The zine identified itself as “devoted to the issues & concerns of transsexuals.”[2] The ArQuives explains:
In gendertrash, as in Ross’s other works, there is a preference for the term transsexual over transgender. The parts of issues written by Ross and MacKay use transsexual almost exclusively, whereas sections were written by friends and acquaintances (such as those by kiwi, Bobby Gene, and Dancing to Eagle Spirit) often use both terms and the blurbs describing community organizations and resources primarily use transgender or transgendered. Various documents in the Ross fonds suggest that she may have felt some suspicion towards the politics of the term “transgender,” yet everything genderpress published or produced makes space for the inclusion of people who identify with either term.[3]
The zine provides an important look into trans life and politics in Canada and North America in the early nineties. The zine really shows us how many of the issues and politics around queer movements and trans movements are still around – just with new language. The full issues of gendertrash are available to view on the ArQuives website. I have posted some of my favourite parts under the tag “gendertrash” – click here to view!
SOURCES
[1] Sid Cunningham, Caleigh Inman, and MacKenzie Stewart, “Gendertrash: Transsexual Zine, 1993-1995,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/exhibits/show/gendertrash/gtintro/.
[2] genderpress, Mirha-Soleil Ross, and Xanthra-Phillippa MacKay, “Gendertrash From Hell 1,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, (1993): 2, https://digitalexhibitions.ArQuives.ca/files/original/0b998e7e26e97585016650eec5a37df7.pdf/.
[3] Sid Cunningham, Caleigh Inman, and MacKenzie Stewart, “Gendertrash: Transsexual Zine, 1993-1995,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/exhibits/show/gendertrash/a-note-on-terminology/.
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Gender Troublemakers (1993), dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay
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Throughout the month, I’ll be highlighting resources for studying LGBT history. Today, I’m featuring the Digital Transgender Archive, which houses a completely free library of digital materials from across the world.
The Digital Transgender Archive’s research statement is purposely wide to treat transgender as an umbrella term: “The DTA uses the term transgender to refer to a broad and inclusive range of non-normative gender practices. We treat transgender as a practice rather than an identity category in order to bring together a trans-historical and trans-cultural collection of materials related to trans-ing gender. “ I had the occasion to meet and discuss the archive with K.J. Rawson, its project director, and the archive is an ongoing project, accepting materials from interested parties.
You can browse by map, collection, topic- or you can use their search bar.
Some interesting collections from the Digital Transgender Archive include:
The Christine Jorgensen collection, which features newsclippings, video footage, photography, and writings related to Christine Jorgensen, the first person in the United States to become widely known for having gender realignment surgery.
Gendertrash: Transsexual Zine: In the early 1990s Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay formed a publishing company called genderpress. Between 1993 and 1995 they produced four zines entitled gendertrash from hell.
Oral Histories with People of Color: highlighting the literal voices of queer and trans people of color, from the 1990s on.
The Lou Sullivan Collection: includes letters between Lou and various medical professionals, colleagues, and friends. Lou Sullivan was known for identifying as an openly gay trans man and fought for the medical and social rights of those who identified similarly.
TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism: was created by Davina Anne Gabriel to combat the routine silencing of transgender women by the academy.
These are just a few of the collections, which you should absolutely explore!
#digital transgender archive#transgender#lgbt#pride month#transgender history#lgbt history#zines#lou sullivan
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xanthra phillipa mackay and mirha-soleil ross photographed by jennifer o’connor, 1993
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From 1993 to 1995, [Canadian artist-activist] Mirha-Soleil Ross and partner Xanthra Phillippa MacKay published five issues of gendertrash from hell, a quarterly zine that “[gave] a voice to gender queers, who've been discouraged from speaking out & communicating with each other". They managed the zine's publisher, genderpress, which also distributed other transsexual pamphlets and literature, corresponded with local organizations and sold buttons.
In standard zine format, gendertrash was a combination of art, poetry, resource lists, serialized fiction, calls to action, classified ads, illustrations and collages and movie reviews. By and for transsexual, transgender and transvestite people, it addressed gender experiences at the individual and societal level and prioritized sex workers, low-income queers, trans people of colour and prisoners. Articles frequently addressed the erasure of transsexuals from lesbian, gay, bi and queer communities and the communities' co-opting of trans identities and issues. (Wikipedia)
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hello Najia! i just got a history project, and i want to do it on something to do with lesbians. can you reccommend of the top of ur head some interesting lesbian figures or lesbian movements? or lesbians that contributed to some amazing thing? thank you! xx
definitely check out the Lesbian Herstory digital archives! they’re got a bunch of photographs and taped interviews that have been digitised, including a collection about lesbian bar culture in Buffalo, NY in the 1930s-60s called “Boots of Leather Slippers of Gold: A History of a Lesbian Community” (also the title of a book based on the interviews, which I highly recommend)
people (keep in mind that LGBT community & terminology didn’t always work exactly as they did today and some of these people may not have been or described themselves as lesbians–regardless, this history is important):
Sylvia Rivera (drag queen, gay liberation activist, advocate for the homeless)
Stormé DeLarverie (MC, drag king & butch lesbian who fought with police during the Stonewall riots)
Mabel Hampton (dancer, domestic worker, open lesbian)
Ernestine Eckstein (lesbian, gay & lesbian rights and Civil Rights activist, feminist)
Rush Ellis (oldest living open lesbian, owner of a printing business, activist)
Rita Mae Brown (author, activist, feminist)
Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay (transsexual once-girlfriends & videographers) created the film Gender Troublemakers and the zine Gender Trash From Hell
Barbara Smith (lesbian feminist and socialist)
Jewelle Gomez (writer, critic, lesbian)
Carol Riddell (transsexual, lesbian, writer, sociologist)
Zanele Muholi (Black South African visual activist)
events, movements, groups:
the homophile movement (precursor to the gay rights movement)
The Stonewall riots (vital!)
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (founded by Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera)
Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
Lavendar Menace and Radicalesbians (and another link)
The Lesbian Avengers
first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference, 1979
first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1979 (read the official souvenir program here)
basically lesbian history & the history of lesbian resistance is inextricable from struggles against capitalism, homelessness, and AIDS, and from gay activism more broadly
also check out @h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y, womon.tumblr.com/tagged/lesbian%20herstory, the GLBTQ archive, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives
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Gender Troublemakers (1993), dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay
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Xanthra Phillippa MacKay and Mirha-Soleil Ross, partners and co-publishers of Gendertrash From Hell | 1993
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