Express Yourself!

Genderqueer and a-gender have become terms for denoting the future; they are employed by mainstream pop stars to self-define themselves in the light of the binary transgender media hype around Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner and other trans artists who have come out recently. One example is the White punk rock front woman and singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, who came out as a woman in 2012 (Eells 2012). ¹ Notably, in 2014, the band released an album, entitled Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Even Miley Cyrus has stated that she does not want to be a boy, but rather a kind of nothing. While she did not despise being a girl, she did not wish to be placed in a box (Krochmal 2015). ² It is salient that much discussion and research centres around trans women, and less on transgender and intersectionality. Notably, the interaction of various forms of discrimination, including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ethnic background, age, dis/ability and so on (Crenshaw 1989; Collins 1990) has had a major impact on transgender people of colour. ³