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"To transvest: to clothe in oter garments primarily to disguise onself"

~Marjorie Garber

 

 

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Storme DeLarverie:

the sole male impersonator in the All Jewel Box Revue, male impersonator, an multi-racial travelling drag show popular in the 1940s

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Adrian Piper, "My Calling Card (1986)

holding people accountable for their prejudices since 1968...

  
   
Sun-Ra aka Herman Poole Blount  
 
 

Fred Sandback, untitled acrylic paint on yarn (1995)

 

 nam june paik's simpl/elegant method of distorting the real of television

WearCam updated

  
 

Cistercian monk robe used to cloak the identity of hildegund von schonau

"the goal [of cross-drressing]is to participate in activities from which the individual would otherwise be excluded..."

~Charlotte Suthrell, Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture

 
 
 
 
Engraving of Joan of Arc
   Nella Larsen, author of the novel Passing