GQ USA - 11.2019

(Jacob Rumans) #1

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VOICES OF THE NEW MASCULINITY


VOICES OF THE NEW MASCULINITY


want to identify as actresses, then they
absolutely should. But we don’t have
categories for people who are assigned
female at birth or identify as women in
the director or cinematographer categories.
The acting category is the only place
where we’re separating people, either by
how they identify or based on what we
assume is in their pants, or their assigned
sex at birth, or their visible biological
sex characteristics.

In addition to your advocacy around
gender, you’re also a vocal supporter
of Black Lives Matter. Has your journey
with gender influenced your work
with other social justice movements
or vice versa?
As someone who was assigned female
at birth, I was already a marginalized
person, and then on top of that I’m queer
and nonbinary and trans. So I have
several marginalized identities. And

I also carry white-bodied privilege.
That doesn’t negate my talent,
my innate gift. It just means that even
though I carry these marginalized
identities, I still hold power in rooms
where there are queer people of color,
for example. For me it’s an understanding
that when I’m working to make the
world safer for other people, I’m also
working to make it safer for myself.
We’re all in it together.

“I’M EXCITED


TO SEE PEOPLE


FOR


WHAT


MASCULINITY


AND FEMININITY


MEAN TO THEM.”


OPPOSITE PAGE, PHOTOGRAPH: THEO & JULIET. THIS PAGE, GROOMING: ERIN GREEN.


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