gender, bespoke (Documentary)


From: Becca Kahn Bloch

A film by becca kahn bloch and mandy hogan.

for cast 447: queer positions at oberlin college. 2012.

sartorialists/interviewees (in order of appearance):
mandy hogan
hanna exel
taylor johnson
meagan day
naomi garber

bespoke is a term for handmade clothing. a bespoke suit, for example, has hand-sewn stitches, which are looser than the stitches on ready-made clothing, and thus move with the body. gender, bespoke suggests a self-made and always-becoming gender that changes daily, but is still itself.

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