But with the Japanese media making "genderless" into a buzzword, Genderless Kei just might have the crossover potential of once-niche trends like kawaii and Visual Kei.
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Naopis points out that even though having a Genderless Kei look doesn't mean that you're gay or trans, there are undeniably many identity minority groups represented among the Genderless Kei style tribe.
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Unfortunately, I don't foresee this move heralding a genderless future.
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For one, there's a whole account dedicated to genderless nipples.
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We're about being free-spirited and inclusive — being genderless and ageless.
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Hair is inherently genderless, yet we have strict understandings of styles.
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Her interior voice is not especially female; it is, rather, genderless.
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A genderless character I find deeply female but also deeply human.
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I sometimes think, what if we lived in a genderless society?
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These boys belong to the newest Japanese style tribe, Genderless Kei.
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A genderless person, available in a range of races and ages.
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Are there challenges in writing a truly genderless character, like a robot?
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One hurdle was finding genderless mannequins for the sales floor, said Smith.
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Y/Project's "multi-cuff" denim disaster is genderless, which is very progressive.
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The virtual assistant is called Q, and it's designed to be genderless.
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Basketball has been faceless and colorless and genderless when I approached it.
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" Ms. MacKenzie, of BestReviews, said: "I love that toys are becoming genderless.
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Since a "hottie" or a HEAVENLY BODY is genderless, it's not sexist.
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Until a few months ago, my Twitter avatar was a genderless cupcake.
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No Gender, No Problem So, why don't we just make our AIs genderless?
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Among their ranks was model Genking, the unofficial leader of Japan's genderless trend.
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All perfume is genderless, but this scent manages to have something for everyone.
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There are many brands with "genderless" watches, now comes the "generation-less" watch.
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Putin is continually railing against gays, Muslims, atheists, the "infertile and genderless" West.
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I want to be Mewtwo: powerful, mind reading, world bending, hairless and genderless.
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Agender, gender-fluid, non-binary, and genderless people may all also identify as neutrois.
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During the Cold War, the socialist state propagated an ideal of a genderless society.
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All showed genderless, experimental collections that provided a refreshingly uncommercial antidote to fashion week.
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And I was like, 'Oh shit, this is an object that can be genderless.
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I was paired with a guide, a cheery, genderless text message buddy named Taylor.
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It might be this distinction that makes Genderless Kei such an impactful style statement.
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We are presenting this character as genderless, at least that's how I'm playing it.
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The Morari patch looked like a tan Band-Aid, stuck on a genderless mannequin.
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While it's a step in the right direction, genderless shopping sections certainly don't solve everything.
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The clothing retailer joined the unisex and genderless fashion movement that gained steam last year.
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MTV's move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone.
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The couple reportedly planned a "genderless" nursery with white and grays replacing pink or blue.
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A woman wearing a hijab and a genderless person are also among the updated offerings.
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And also, honestly, I like it because it is a relatively gender neutral or genderless thing.
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And German grammarians are mulling an update to dictionaries to include new genderless versions of words.
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We've living in a time of intersectional feminism, body positivity, and genderless, smart, and adaptive fashion.
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People are becoming more and more genderless so hopefully we won't even realise we're doing drag.
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"I think a lot of people assume that I want a "genderless" future," Tobia tells Refinery.
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There's a genderless bathroom symbol incorporated in the collection, and embroidered shirts that read, 'Terraform Mars.
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Instead, I emphasise its genderless silence in the dock, a machine executing actions without moral conscience.
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Jewelry on the catwalks has been as genderless as the fashion recently — and just as bold.
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You both remain anonymous, genderless, faceless strangers, with no ability to communicate other than through chirps.
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Meanwhile, the genderless merperson has its arms crossed in front of its bare chest to obscure it.
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"When I thought about Christine, I thought about silhouette: a really strong, genderless-shaped character," Letissier recalls.
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Maverick drops the hypermasculine act then, and the world does not collapse into genderless chaotic space dust.
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Formichetti's approach to genderless fashion has cemented him as a key figure in the gender-bending movement.
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And Giampiero Bodino, the Milan-based jeweler, is designing his first genderless collection for presentation next fall.
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In the first draft, we named the characters Chris and Terry because both are kind of genderless.
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"But now that I began wearing this genderless fashion, I think I shed my prejudice," he said.
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More recently, the Unicode Consortium approved a person wearing a hijab emoji as well as a genderless person.
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An account called genderless nipples went viral earlier this year, highlighting the app's complicated history with female nudity.
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Despite its male name, KAI, a financial assistant, is one of the only truly genderless bots in existence.
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" "I do worry that the industry's new obsession with 'genderless' will be presented to mainstream culture without context [...].
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Many queer-owned brands, such as Stuzo and Sir New York, have been offering genderless styles for years.
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Globally, 10 countries - Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, Malta, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ireland and Canada - allow genderless passports.
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Though I'm sure the average American has also never heard of this pre-revolutionary self-proclaimed genderless prophet.
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The term "genderless danshi" was coined by a talent agent, Takashi Marumoto, who has helped develop Toman's career.
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As writer Lauren Schwartzberg explains, millennial pink is a "genderless mascot" that doesn't fall into traditionally gendered color palettes.
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The genderless sizing runs from XS-XXL for pieces they're dubbing "uni-luxe:" a mash-up of unisex-luxury.
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Also, most of the pairs have been drawn genderless, so you can imagine any number of your favorite characters!
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Genderless Kei doesn't rely on unisex styling, but playfully seeks to remove the gender labels from traditionally gendered pieces.
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How about banning all those female stars who look genderless and guide girls not being neither female nor male?
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He used both female and male models, so interchangeable in their looks that they became a grand, genderless blur.
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"Commenting on the decision to raise the chick genderless, McGrath said in a statement: "While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults.
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More than just queer or genderless, it imbued the clothes with what we're supposed to get out of them: feeling.
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Yet no matter how otherworldly and genderless he made himself, Mr. Bowie was aware that he was a white man.
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While the collection is not "genderless," it is not heavily gendered either, another example of its modern take on dressing.
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The Carlings collection is genderless and available in any size, and also taps into the trend for reducing environmental impact.
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Other newly approved emoji include a woman wearing a hijab, a genderless person, and someone sitting in the lotus position.
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Those three qualities you just mentioned—avant-garde, genderless, utilitarian—are also very applicable to what you want from clubwear.
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As Toman put its, "There are no rules!" because Genderless Kei is not about passing, but rather surpassing gender norms.
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For example, Unicode technically supports a genderless "person" emoji, but Google, and other platforms, are still struggling to support it.
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In point of fact, the first perfumes were genderless, and only in the 1930s did the sexes start getting separated.
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A same-sex penguin couple will raise what may be the world's first "genderless" chick, a London aquarium announced Tuesday.
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What is most striking about Gethen is that its otherwise human inhabitants are genderless, neither one biological sex nor the other.
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By featuring genderless acting categories and casting Dillon as a presenter, MTV obviously wanted to make a statement about gender identity.
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It makes ethical as well financial sense to offer a genderless choice as the market is twice as large, he says.
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Where some have tried to address the issue by creating systems with genderless digital voices, they still miss a critical feature.
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Genderless body care line Nécessaire makes daily necessities, like body wash and body lotion, that appeal to everyone of every gender.
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Britain would join Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, Malta, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ireland and Canada if it were to issue genderless passports.
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The whole click bait tactic of saying I'm raising my daughter to be 'genderless' is silly and frankly doesn't even make sense.
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If Britain were to issue genderless passports, it would join Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, Malta, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ireland and Canada.
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Within the climate of Japan's 1950s-esque gender norms, it might seem unlikely that a trend like Genderless Kei would be embraced.
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" He crusaded against the moral decline of the West, which he once went so far as to describe as "infertile and genderless.
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As the times were changing, and moving to a more genderless and borderless culture, Warhol successfully embodied the spirit of the era.
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London (CNN)A same-sex penguin couple will raise an adopted "genderless" chick for the first time, a London aquarium announced Tuesday.
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Cardi couture, genderless handbags, CBD skin care, natural wine and more: 235 wearables, massagables and drinkables that defined a strange, fractious year.
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The actress also pointed out that was the first year MTV had genderless categories, which made the honor even more meaningful to her.
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Kate Hudson is setting the record straight about what she meant in saying she takes a "genderless" approach when it comes to parenting.
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On the cover of Blonde, an album whose title exists in both the masculine and feminine forms, Ocean's hair is a genderless green.
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Elan-Cane, 60, first started campaigning for genderless people in 1992 after shedding a female identity and taking on a gender-neutral one.
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Furbies are genderless, like an Angel, and can have whatever label we (or the Furby itself as a character) feel fits them best!
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Toman, another Genderless Kei model and member of the boyband XOX, came to fame as a reader model for young men's fashion magazines.
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So is it really a depiction of a woman, or is it a depiction of a statue, which is non-living and thus genderless?
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Beyoncé accessorized her genderless jacket, black pants and matching top with the $20173,790 "Modern Future" brocade drawstring backpack, also from Gucci's Magic Lanterns range.
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A good opening message is genderless — friendly enough that you could text it to a friend, but not so familiar that you're being creepy.
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Christie Elan-Cane, who was born female but identifies as genderless, wants the government to introduce a third category of passports for such people.
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In turn, Jack Off Jill's debut Sexless Demons and Scars portrayed the band's three female members as genderless dolls with their faces superimposed on.
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She lives with her wife, Toni, 36, the creator of Style Is Freedom, a genderless streetwear brand, and their cat, Betty, in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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One is the Los Angeles label 69 (which, to further its mission of creating a truly genderless and nondemographic label, keeps its designers anonymous).
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Ideas, on the other hand, can often seem scarce, and the concealing, genderless, uniform-style clothes that Mr. Simons showed had plenty of those.
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Mr. Sasaki, a model and pop band member who goes simply by Toman, does not regard his look as feminine so much as genderless.
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Dropping Diamond's self-empowerment anthem "Team Pretty Bitches," she orchestrated a moving formation of bodies brown and black, big and small, gender-fluid and genderless.
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Genderless Nipples is fighting back against Instagram's nipple ban by asking one simple question: Can you tell whether these nipples belong to men or women?
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"Me saying a 'genderless approach' was a way of refocusing the conversation in a direction that could exist outside of the female stereotype," she continued.
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One account, Genderless Nipples, was founded to fight what some argue is a double standard: Allowing male nipples to fill user feeds, but not female.
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" Speaking to Mr. Beck, Mr. Cruz said the country has "gone off the deep end" and the idea of so-called genderless bathrooms is "absurd.
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It shows that this industry is actually becoming genderless, and we're really making the push toward equal opportunities for everybody, regardless of race, sexuality, gender.
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Westwood runway staples deconstructing formal aristocratic attire — pinstriped suiting, paper crowns, slogan patterned prints and genderless corseted gowns — remained a rallying cry against the establishment.
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"We did some unorthodox things with men's wear last season that were seen as gender-bending, but what we do is not genderless," Linder says.
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"We didn't set out to be genderless," Nick Axelrod, the co-founder of both Nécessaire and iconic beauty site Into the Gloss, tells Business Insider.
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All in all, Genderless Nipples just wants to make sure that Instagram's rules apply to everyone equally — instead of singling out anyone based on their gender.
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And according to the Verge, even more Intel is coming to the watch later this year—in the form of a new, genderless artificially intelligent assistant.
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The 60-year-old first started campaigning for awareness of genderless people in 1992 after shedding a female identity and taking on a gender-neutral one.
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"We needed to do a genderless campaign where we can blur the lines between sexualities, genders and show that makeup is for all," Yi tells us.
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Directed by Clarita Luzian, who works under the digital art alias Render_Fruit, the video follows a genderless silver alien zooming deep into a morphing crystaline cavern.
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At the end of the day, I consider it an avant-garde, genderless, utilitarian clothing brand that is influenced by art, with an emphasis on fashion.
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More than just men in makeup, Genderless Kei pushes traditional gender boundaries and sexuality in a country where neither topic has been up for much discussion.
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He points to Rihanna as a female genderless style icon in the way that she works (works, works, works, works) tomboy pieces into her street style.
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At the same time, Genderless Kei's separation from an overt statement about sexuality might actually make it a safe, subtle way to express one's personal politics.
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Monden points out that currently it's easiest to spot Genderless Kei among celebrities and fashion insiders, whose fame generally gives them more leeway to dress flamboyantly.
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"We have to carry more sizes particularly for rings and more stock as you can't make a genderless collection geared to one gender," Mr. Webster said.
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For all the talk in American circles about the rise of genderless or gender-nonconforming fashion, the runways of Milan felt coed, rather than gender-agnostic.
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Christie Elan-Cane is pushing for a third option on passports for genderless people, which is usually symbolized by an 'x' on travel documents and birth certificates.
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As reported by The Daily Dot, the Instagram account Genderless Nipples is proving how silly the app's policy is by posting photos of nipples from all genders.
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As many trans and gender-nonconforming activists have long argued, perhaps what we should be striving for is not a genderless society, but a gender expansive one.
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What he needs to do is sit down and shut up while the actual adults clean up the mess — and I mean that in a genderless way.
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I don't want a genderless world, I want a genderful world [...] where everyone has the freedom to explore and play without facing violence or harassment or discrimination.
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Zara launched a 16-piece collection of genderless clothing, called Ungendered, including sweatshirts, T-shirts and jeans — so the usual unisex fare, as Mashable's Noelle Sciacca noted.
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As widespread and genderless as Vine's appeal seems to be, the number of men engaged in slapstick comedy vastly outweighs the number of women in the game.
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In 2016, the house presented a genderless fragrance called Boy Chanel, which paired what it called a masculine fougère accord with a bouquet of feminine floral essences.
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Perhaps genderless toys focusing on malleable and distinct pleasure independent of the user's anatomy, like those LELO is working on, could lead the way in doing so.
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The best are the large Reaper paintings (too colorful to be called grim), which repeat faceless, genderless figures in hooded cloaks and landscapes of many vibrant colors.
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Mr. Padrón, Ms. Ybarra and Ms. Goyanes identify as Latinx, which is a genderless term for people with roots in Latin America; Ms. Sharif is African-American.
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Genderless Style Known for his outré style with a 1970s flair, Mr. Flemons has been wearing women's clothing since he was 18, often sourced from secondhand shops.
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The posters are intended to introduce, teasingly, Carine Roitfeld Parfums, a collection of seven "genderless" fragrances inspired by seven fictional lovers from seven cities around the world.
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This includes a suite of portraits featuring a genderless, nameless figure in an array of colors, loosely referred to as "Orchid," that Morrocco animates in a morphsuit.
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I first bought "it," (genderless now as I get into my tale), as a fabulously green way of driving into The City every day from my countryside home.
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And with the huge popularity of social media accounts like Free the Nipple and Genderless Nipples, it seems the fight for women's areola equality is only gaining ground.
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Some have genderless mid-length hair, while the dracula emoji has had its clothes changed to an androginous chain rather than a bow-tie (male) or choker (female).
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CHELTENHAM, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a 25-year battle to have the identity of genderless people recognized in British passports, Christie Elan-Cane fought depression and unemployment.
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The current system allows applicants to tick only a male or female option, and does not provide for a genderless alternative, which is usually symbolized with an 'X'.
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One important distinction we need to make is between a gender identity of manhood that only exists by putting somebody down and a moral identity that is genderless.
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"It's extraordinary: We have started a conversation about a genderless society," said Bob Orr, 66, who in 1982 co-opened Edinburgh's first lesbian and gay bookshop, Lavender Menace.
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However, Emil Asmussen, a director at the Virtue agency, said he hoped it would push major tech firms to consider widening their digital AI options to include genderless voices.
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According to a press release, most of the pieces, originally released from 1984 to 2011, are marketed as genderless to show that classic J.Crew style really is for everyone.
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The new NoHo store, Phluid, opened in March and caps a growing interest among apparel brands for genderless collections, from giant retailer Zara to smaller fashion line Gypsy Sport.
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The grim love story between a genderless, computer-programming humanoid and an IBM 5155 portable computer virus comes to life in the new music video from Crash Override, a.k.a.
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Carine Roitfeld Parfums is a collection of seven genderless scents, inspired by seven lovers in seven of her favorite cities around the world and it's hitting Net-a-Porter.
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Before now, Ms. Le Pen has mainly transcended the barriers that hobble many other Frenchwomen in politics, somehow managing to be both woman and genderless at the same time.
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Woven into the miles-long scarves draped over the models' shoulders, words like "Genderless" and "Boundaryless" seemed distinctly at odds with pinup images of female sex machines, but never mind.
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Read These Stories Next:This High School Senior Got In Trouble For Copying Zendaya's OutfitZendaya Calls Genderless Fashion The FutureZendaya's Hairstylist Reveals Why She Wore An Afro On The Red Carpet
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While the MTV Movie & TV Awards have introduced genderless categories and included LGBTQ+ nominees in their best kiss category, the BET Awards are stubbornly singing the same old predictable tunes.
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" According to the show notes, Grazia Chiuri looked to blue because it is a "symbol of power, beauty, and spirituality [that] is employed for genderless outfits and to express differences.
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The popcorn-trophy awards, which highlight unconventional achievements in film in television like best fight scene and on-screen kiss, featured genderless categories for the second year in a row.
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It would be a mistake, then, to dismiss the impact that Genderless Kei's popularity could have on the social visibility of those who feel oppressed by the country's traditional mores.
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Tschabalala Self, a newly minted Yale MFA (2015), presents two powerful 2014 paintings of a fragmented human form, almost genderless but for an emphasis on curves that suggests a female.
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In a video he posted on YouTube, University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson criticised the use of genderless pronouns, such as "they", to refer to transgender people - igniting student protests.
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After all, the word itself has been around since the launch of the unisex fragrance CK One in the early '90s, and the idea of genderless beauty has only grown since.
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The buying power of the LGBT+ community is $917 billion, yet there is still a lack of queer representation in fashion, as well as a dearth of trans and genderless clothing.
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Narind Singh, a partner at Clifford Chance who is leading the legal team, said in a statement that X-passports were "a crucial step" in protecting the rights of genderless people.
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I know there's a huge movement to be genderless, but I love the idea of playing beyond…even if I don't tell you what my labels are, you've given me ten.
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In an uncanny echo of the past, some Japanese men today, known as "genderless danshi," are once again blurring lines, dressing androgynously, using makeup or wearing clothes typically seen as feminine.
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While Professor Buehler believes other factors contribute to the book's endurance — the universal title and the seemingly genderless author — she credits librarians and teachers for supporting the book from the start.
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Inside, her riotously colorful paintings — in which genderless figures transform into trees — animate the walls of her compact 231-square-foot studio, interspersed with dried leaves and a framed rare butterfly.
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Any sense of agenda around the LGBTQ+ storylines, genderless robots, or the messaging about self-acceptance is meant to slyly slip into viewers' brains without overt "The More You Know" teaching moments.
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If she isn't bringing down the house in Vegas where she has a residency or designing for her new genderless children's clothing line, she's sitting front row at our favorite couture shows.
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There are nice things about that name: it's genderless, it tells you what the thing is, and for Google, it signals that it's a core product for the future of the company.
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Clearly we have not yet achieved the kind of genderless utopia where it would be beside the point to address the specific issues that people of different genders and assigned-sexes face.
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Moreover, as a nonwestern woman creating work about subjugation in a UK academic context, my only hope of the work being taken seriously was to position the figures as male or genderless.
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It's not the first time Zara's parent company, Inditex, has added genderless clothing to its inventory: Inditex-owned Pull&Bear has offered unisex apparel in past seasons, according to Harper's Bazaar Spain.
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BAUME X ZAG LIMITED EDITION $1,350 The Richemont Group's fledgling watch brand was introduced in May with the promise of its customizable, sustainable and genderless timepieces being sold direct to the consumer.
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Since a series of operations with Jacqueline Breyer P-Orridge, P-Orridge's wife, who died in 21960, P-Orridge prefers genderless pronouns, usually first person plural, but is O.K. with female pronouns.
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As one of a small but growing group of "genderless danshi" — "danshi" means young men in Japanese — he is developing a public identity and a career out of a new androgynous style.
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The cherry on top was my all-girls high school, where the fantasy of a genderless meritocracy seemed achievable in my lifetime, if only because there weren't any boys around to disprove it.
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Thanks to designers like Sacai, Preen, Paco Rabanne, and others, what was once considered frilly (see also: dainty or feeble) is now devoid of any weakness, concealed by heavier matter, or is genderless.
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As Watson acknowledged in her acceptance speech, MTV's genderless acting category will mean different things to different people -- and perhaps, like Dillon, most gender nonconforming people will see it as an important step.
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MTV's move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone, but for me, it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself into someone else's shoes.
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The entire ensemble came straight off the runway from Helmut Lang's Spring 2018 ready-to-wear collection, which was designed by Shayne Oliver, who's become known in the industry for creating genderless collections.
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The campaigner, who was born female but identifies as neither male nor female, wants the government to change its passport policy and introduce a third category for people who regard themselves as genderless.
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We talk about clothes being genderless and makeup being for everyone, but hair is another thing which, for centuries, has been tied to gender as well as culture and wealth and many other things.
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Doctor Who's main character, who gets regenerated every couple of seasons, is essentially an alien—a Time Lord—so is strictly speaking genderless, but the previous dozen Doctors have all been played by men.
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The Genderless Kei starter pack would include: a '90s Devon Sawa 'do, dewy skin so white it glows, platform shoes, eye-popping color contacts, instagrammable nail art, a mini backpack, and all things pink.
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Somehow, as The Good Place kicks off its fourth and final season, the fate of the human race has come down to four weirdos, a genderless being of pure creation, and a reformed demon.
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In fact, the personal-care products that now dominate our bathrooms are largely unisex (or genderless, or a-gender, or gender-neutral), including the one body care line we can't stop fighting over — Nécessaire.
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We shouldn't take it on faith that, because these two genderless acting awards went to women, this will become a trend -- especially at more prestigious, serious awards shows like the Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmys.
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There's still little crossover between "women's clothes" and "men's clothes," particularly in the workplace, despite certain high street chains' attempts to cash in on gender fluidity (Zara launched its first genderless collection earlier this year).
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Despite saying that he has the "heart of a woman" and the fact that he is more frequently spotted in womenswear, Genking says that Genderless Kei isn't about trying to be perceived as a woman.
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In fact, the only difference between Genderless Kei boys and girls, says self-described gender-free model and dancer Ranma Yu, is that so far the Japanese media spotlight has only shone on the boys.
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The boys' choices also included a series of long and short dresses in rich brocade or Mickey Mouse motifs, an encore of the continuing Gucci movement toward a more genderless, seasonless kind of self-determination.
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THE HYPEBEASTJames Jebbia, a transplanted Englishman, founded the skate shop Supreme in 1994, which gained a cult following for its genderless clothing line and design collaborations with artists ranging from Raymond Pettibon to Neil Young.
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Christie Elan-Cane, who was born female but identifies as "non-gendered", is pushing for a third option on passports for genderless people, which is usually symbolised by an 'x' on travel documents and birth certificates.
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Acceptance speeches stressed unity and diverse representation in movies and TV. But the most significant development at this year's awards was the debut of genderless acting awards, replacing the conventional "best actor" or "best actress" categories.
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There are, of course, literary progenitors—you can hear the satirical scrape of Muriel Spark (whom Smith admires), and detect the influence of Virginia Woolf (fluid interior monologue, an interest in artists, and in genderless creativity).
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Christie Elan-Cane, who was born female but identifies as "non-gendered", is pushing for a third option on passports for genderless people, which is usually symbolized by an 'x' on travel documents and birth certificates.
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Cosmetics brands like Milk Makeup have built their offerings on genderless beauty; the skin-care company Glow Recipe hosts sold-out boy beauty mask classes; and in the fragrance aisle, unisex scent houses continue to grow.
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" These elements mimic the quirks of natural languages: Finnish has one genderless pronoun for the singular third person (whereas in English, we have "he" and "she"); Russian uses the same word for both "please" and "you're welcome.
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During men's fashion week in Paris in June, former Yves Saint Laurent and Ermenegildo Zegna Couture designer Stefano Pilati unveiled an all-black, 17-piece genderless and seasonless collection dubbed "Random Identities" on his personal Instagram account.
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Yes, we know it can difficult to think of her as anything other than an earthly manifestation of the divine genderless Almighty Apotheosis, to which we are undeserving of, and must proclaim our devotion to each morning.
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Lawyers for the campaigner had argued that the lack of a passport alternative for genderless people, usually symbolized with an 'X', breached the right to respect for private life and the right not to be discriminated against.
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This same hottie appears on the toy's website, except with a broseph pointing the wireless controller at her like she's a sex TV girl robot there for him to watch, unaware that genderless aliens have genitals too.
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Just hours after she set the record straight about what she meant in saying she takes a "genderless" approach when it comes to parenting, Hudson was captured working out while breastfeeding her 3-month-old daughter, Rani Rose.
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"I've always preferred for some reason to keep the account separate from myself and present it as genderless," they said in a Twitter DM.They were a frequent reader of r/legaladvice, and sometimes posted to their personal account.
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The fabrics change by season — vulcanized rubber, hand-spun alpaca, diaphanous organza — but the genderless shapes, based on preindustrial work wear, with sobriquets including the Beekeeper and the Sculptor, have been constant since the line debuted in 2013.
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Then there are examples of gender neutrality and genderless parenting, which does not necessarily mean going so far as to raise a child as gender fluid, but rather attempts to dispel preconceived stereotypes about gender from a young age.
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While borrowing fashion from the opposite sex is hardly a new premise — Owens, for one, has used inventive draping and tailoring to create an androgynous, genderless tribe since 2002 — it's a concept that's really taken hold in recent seasons.
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Click on to refresh your stash of basics while you still can, and in the meantime, we'll be hoping more brands are turned on to this genderless aesthetic — it sure would make getting dressed in the morning a breeze.
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Beyond her practical, genderless, and futuristic wardrobe, which makes sense for right now, she's also a fitting character for this moment: a powerful female trapped between a real and a virtual world, trying to make sense of it all.
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I think on some level I've always understood myself to either be genderless or, if forced to align with any one particular gender, a very feminine (by choice, not by happenstance of genetic or the pressures of socializing) man.
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In the past, when designers and brands have tried their hand at genderless collections, the result has often looked like boys with long hair in hyper-feminine dresses and nail polish, or women with shaved heads and severe features.
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" Ms. Jennings's brassiere is purple, to represent her family's Trans-Kids Purple Rainbow Foundation, and features scalloping inspired by mermaids, which Ms. Jennings said are popular with gender-nonconforming youth, as "mermaids have no genitalia and are basically genderless.
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It wouldn't be the first time that Styles has hinted that he's not straight, as he is the face of Mémoire d'une Odeur, Gucci's new genderless fragrance, and he has worn fashion pieces by gender-fluid designer Harris Reed.
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Twitter announced today that the company is changing the default avatar for new accounts from the infamous multicolored eggs to a new default profile photo that depicted a gray, genderless image of a person with a vaguely gumdrop-shaped head.
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" According to its press release, the offering is a "juxtaposition of genderless pieces that are versatile in how they can be sized and styled speak to a shift in a modern day approach to design, and skew the definition of androgyny.
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New-born penguins are usually given a gender-based name, but expert aquarists decided on this occasion they would let the chick grow and develop into a mature adult genderless, as this is what would happen naturally in the wild.
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Nicola Formichetti's presentation of his 100% genderless collection during New York Fashion Week in September 2015 During New York fashion week in September 2015, Formichetti's gender-fluid fashion brand Nicopanda had men in sheer pink tops, frilly dresses and skirts.
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But she also embraces it as a genderless state: She can pose for pictures in blond braids and pink lipstick one day; on another she wears a T-shirt with cutoff sleeves and doesn't mind the stubble on her chin.
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Here, have a listen to Voice I and Voice II side-by-side: Often you'll hear people use the pronouns "her" or "she" to refer to their digital assistants even though the formless slab of consumer electronics they're referencing is so obviously genderless.
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The overwhelmingly Pollyanna-ish tone of the show notwithstanding -- and, let's be honest, this is a feature of most awards shows -- I take issue with Condon's statement, and with the whole premise of genderless acting categories as a step toward gender parity.
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Over the years, Dunbar's poem has found unusual resonance in the music of Janelle Monáe, who until the release of Dirty Computer—her third full-length album, out today—performed behind the mask of Cindi Mayweather, a genderless cyborg from the future.
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No one on the internet is sure how to react to Hi Stranger, a scary-soothing short film by Kirsten Lepore that somehow blends nudity, innocence, ASMR, leeriness, and positive affirmation into a single hairless, genderless, polymer clay fellow with no name.
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The 39-year-old actress and WW ambassador revealed in a recent interview with AOL that she embraces a "genderless approach" to parenting 3-month-old Rani and her two older brothers from Hudson's previous relationships: Bingham Hawn, 7½, and Ryder Russell, 15.
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According to Paola Ramos, the host of our new series LATIN-X, it's a critical resource for the city and its Latinx population—a genderless word used to describe anyone in the Latino community who feels like they don't fit into one identity.
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However, some believe that Japanese society might be more open to a trend like Genderless Kei because of the way that both Japanese men and women value fashion, says Masafumi Monden, author of Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan.
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What lives inside all of us, but definitely inside of me, is genderless, shameless, doesn't feel guilty about her body, about her sex, doesn't feel incompetent, doesn't feel like she has to perform — just gets to play, just gets to have fun.
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"While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults," said General Manager Graham McGrath.
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With artists like Lady Gaga explicitly referencing the influence of drag on their work, plus the rise of androgynous models and genderless fashion shows at London Fashion Week, gender in high-end fashion has long been fluid; those influences are now bleeding into makeup.
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"There has certainly been a rise in the number of genderless collections, both in high-end fashion and among more mainstream retailers like H&M—which launched its first unisex collection earlier this year," says Neil Saunders, Managing Director and Retail Analyst at GlobalData Retail.
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Over the course of the weekend, celebrities as disparate as Nina Dobrev, Solange, and stylist Monica Rose all stopped by to express their enthusiasm for the genderless, generation-spanning shoe, and they certainly aren't the only mega-famous fans of this particular piece of footwear.
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Innovative young designers continue to blur the lines of gender and sexuality, but these statements are largely expected on the catwalks; liberal cities may be largely more accepting, but the idea of a genderless future in more rural areas still seems a long way off.
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In the last year, the "mysterious beautiful boy" (his one-time Instagram moniker) with an Andreja Pejic blond mane has risen from social media selfie star to full-fledged TV personality, and with his visibility, Genderless Kei has exploded into a Japanese media obsession.
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Named after the Yoruba word "oba," a genderless term that means "a king," the work will be viewed from the balcony of St. Mark's Church, where Danspace is based; at one time, this section of the church was set aside for congregants who were slaves.
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You may not get an avatar as involved as the ones in the movie—the platform limits all users to genderless bubble-like characters with eyes, smiles, and little else—but all the other elements look as though they were pulled straight out of the movie scene.
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There is a way in which William suggests that these sexless, genderless figures could, or should be read as women because the artist advances their stories rather than the stories of Toussaint Louverture, or Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who are the characters most often associated with the Haitian Revolution.
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As his men and women swapped louche jackets and trousers in houndstooth of many sizes, lounge singer satins and sunburst brocade, he made the case for genderless suiting with grace but without compromise, positing the exchange not as a political statement about the refusal of labels, but as generosity.
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The latest collection, titled "Emergence" and looking at what Mr. Jeffrey called "embracing of the genderless and misunderstood through a sensitive, celestial study of bodies," took an assured designer's hand to unfiltered and unexpected places, leaving the audience with a sense of the wondrous possibility of the new.
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Much theoretical, ripe fruit can be plucked from this fucking, pansexual, genderless, hands-off painting machine as it squeezes the juice out of the love of painting by eliminating the hand — a semi-radical move into the cool automaton zone largely inspired by the writings of Heinrich von Kleist.
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Experts at the aquarium usually give newborn penguins gender-based names, but in this case "decided it was more natural for the chick to grow and develop into a mature adult as genderless which is normal in the wild until they mature," the centre said in a press release.
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"While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults," General Manager Graham McGrath said in a statement CNN obtained.
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Using both a male and female model in the teaser was intentional: At Paris Fashion Week in the fall, Waight Keller will be showing her first men's and women's collections together — the first of the LVMH brands to embrace the trend of a genderless runway, à la Gucci or Burberry.
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"I thought that I would want to throw up when a man said to me, 'I love you,'" said Mr. Suzuki, who wears baggy trousers popular among Japanese women and tweezes his facial hair because he cannot yet afford the laser hair removal treatments popular among the better-known genderless danshi.
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Last summer, UNESCO released a report warning against the "troubling repercussions" of gendered AI. The researchers recommended closer scrutiny of why many current speech-based AI systems, which interact with millions of people around the world, often default to speaking with a female voice, even though they may claim to be genderless.
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In just the last two years, we've seen transgender women fronting highly visible, notoriously old-school publications; designers like Hood By Air and Vetements debuting genderless styles on the runway; and global brands like H&M releasing ad campaigns that not only dismiss classical notions of femininity but also seek to rewrite its meaning for the future.
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"It isn't easy to create a genderless voice," said Nis Norgaard, a sound designer at Thirty Sounds Good studio, who produced Q. He used research which found male voices are usually pitched between 85 to 180 hertz (Hz) and women's are typically between 140 to 255 Hz to identify a potential neutral range where the two overlapped.
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Such botanicals were familiar to her partner, Porter Yates, a mechanical engineer and photographer who grew up in the dry climate of Santa Fe. Together, the duo started researching oils and actives until they formed the idea for Ayond, a genderless skin-care line inspired by the self-healing desert plants of New Mexico and the American Southwest.
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At the very moment that "Latino" and "Chicano" art are poised to make a big splash, some curators are pushing to replace those masculine words with new genderless terms they find more inclusive: "Latinx" for anyone in North America with roots from Latin America — male, female or gender-nonconforming — and "Chicanx" for anyone of Mexican descent.
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Then, in the middle of men's fashion week in Paris, using his personal Instagram account, he uploaded 17 looks from a new, self-started brand called Random Identities: all of them black, all shown on friends, men and women alike, all "genderless and seasonless" in his conception, and as of now, not for production or sale.
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My Springsteen problem, ultimately, was my problem with white masculinity in general: was it possible for straight white men to empathize with anything other than themselves, in the way that Joni Mitchell, say, could identify with that black crow, or Laura Nyro with all the inhabitants of her native New York, or Chaka Khan with the confusion and joy of a genderless world?
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"I don't often feel as if I belong," she writes, recounting her "extreme childhood shyness" and how she would not speak until she was 6; how she felt herself to be a "genderless thing"; how her first lesbian relationship, in high school, was ended by her mother's discovery of her girlfriend's letters, and how lost and isolated she felt for a long time after that.
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Such disorientation is embedded, like an alien fossil, in the oeuvre of the polymathic Toogood, 42, who has for the last decade created objects, furniture, clothing and residential interiors that seem simultaneously futuristic and prehistoric: chairs with backs like the handle of a garden spade; sparsely furnished Georgian homes with murky gray walls and metal cage bookshelves; oversize, genderless garments of boiled wool and ivory canvas.
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But a group of linguists, technologists, and sound designers—led by Copenhagen Pride and Vice's creative agency Virtue—are on a quest to change that with a new, genderless digital voice, made from real voices, called Q. Q isn't going to show up in your smartphone tomorrow, but the idea is to pressure the tech industry into acknowledging that gender isn't necessarily binary, a matter of man or woman, masculine or feminine.
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Beyond the reach of Hollywood, we are also living in a moment when, as many thinkpieces have asserted, the "The Handmaid's Tale" -- the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopic novel in which women under a brutally misogynist regime are reduced to their biological and domestic functions -- feels too close to our current reality for comfort, and we cannot afford to buy into the idea that genderless acting categories will help achieve substantive gender parity.
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Yet here, as trios of young women passionately sing along to the line "there's more to life than sleeping in and getting high with you", pumping their arms like they're singing along to a heart-rendering karaoke classic, I can't help thinking about how, often, the perspective of Drake's songs can be genderless – which is why I can hear screams of "Feel No Ways" in my ears in varying shifts and tones.
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Still, what draws lovers of the book to its story of betrayal and the possibility of redemption through truth and, ultimately, to the question of the body as home, is the vision of Baldwin stumbling through it, sure-footed and alone, walking toward the idea that love may come attached with different ideas of what it should look like, feel like, but in the end, it's what you do with its responsibilities that renders you genderless — and human.
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