Rae Bryant: Is It Fun? Not So Much. Is It Necessary? Absolutely.
I see layers of gender on social biases, images of women, bones and flesh, over layed words, desire, oppression, and humor. I see vintage nudes and images of what women are and what women are “supposed to be.” Socially, politically, artistically, gender biases cycle as they always have, waiting for the presidential ceiling to break. Being a woman, I can’t help but desire a better future for gender understanding in general, but I don’t necessarily see it through a feminist lens.
You see, I am a very bad feminist. I am a bad woman for men and a bad woman for women. I sometimes do not make meals for my man and I do not want to be equal to my man in all ways. I like being a woman and wouldn’t want to be everything male. I do not want all that testosterone. I do not want to give up birthing children.
I dream of a future when gender differences aren’t differences to which we must blind ourselves and polarize our efforts, but rather, recognize and celebrate the diversities as well as the equalities. I dream of a future when we can collectively see both the commonalities and differences as necessary to the textures of life, art, literature. I see art and literature, new media, multimedia, intermedia, and virtual media, especially, as an exciting step toward this celebration of gender diversity.
