Jasper's Wardrobe

Saturday, March 6, 2010

How To Find My Internet Projects | Glam Femme Boy @ Valencia and 16th in San Francisco

Glam Femme Boy @ Valencia and 16th in San Francisco by you.

This outfit is my glam gender. Everything is Women's clothes, but the effect is glam rather than woman. Presenting as Glam Femme Boy allows me to present authentically without triggering Transphobia. A boy becomes Glam by moving toward a Woman Social Gender. It is the Journey and Not the Destination that matters.

Jasper's Archives
1) My experiments have moved to jaspergregory.tumblr.com. Tumblr lets me share my life more authentically than WordPress does, and it is a hotbed of graphic design exploration. It is a new evolution of digital publishing.
2) My 2008-2009 blog is at jasperswardrobe.wordpress.com. It marks my coming out as gender variant via the Flickr Wardrobe_Remix social network, and my initial explorations of San Francisco's Queer and Transgender Subcultures.
3) My Audio Visual work from the second half of 2009 is presented at emansipashun.jasperswardrobe.com
4) My Hypertext Ethnography Experiment from early 2009 can be viewed at www.jasperswardrobe.com/queerpedia/published/HomePage

New Experiments in TumblrSpace

Friday, March 5, 2010

SF Femme Fashion | We Met On Valentine's Day At Ecstatic Dance In Oakland

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Bio Boy Fashionista on Haight Street

I like this understated outfit. It ignores Contemporary Codes Of Masculinity, and chooses a dandified look from the past.

This traveler kid was walking through Northern Califonia. He had reached Petaluma from Arcata on the Oregon Border.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

I Went To Biodanza Dance Tonight. It Is Life-Positive, Sexuality-Positive Dance Container

What is Biodanza?

Biodanza, which means Dance of Life, is a system that integrates music, movement and authentic interactions to provide experiences of intense perception of being alive in the here-and-now. These experiences are known as "vivencias", coined from the Spanish root: vivir (to live).

via biodanza.us

Hegemonic Beauty Ideals

This photo is Transgressive of Hegemonic Beauty Ideals. It feels subversive and taboo despite being a rather tame nude. This Is because the fat body has been made a fetish, and desire for an ulta feminine fat body has been pathologized. When did our ancestors ban the cult of the Fertility Goddess?

This photo shows how interesting Tumblr is as a bottom up media publishing network. This stuff is fresh.

via jaspergregory.tumblr.com

A Plea To Trancend Queer, Transgender, Feminist, Genderqueer, Person of Color Or a Nation Of Any Kind

Rape centric feminism = The Work OF Andrea Dworkin and other Radical Feminists who view all relations between Bio-Boys And Bio-Girls through the lens. Unfortunately many Transsexual Male-To_Female Feminists have chosen to built on these foundations of Neo-Puritanism.

Dolores Park Picnic 1

Part of a series of abstract San Francisco Picnic Blankets

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Queer Culture, Identity Politics, Transgender and Rape-Centric Feminism

Jasper advocates for an end to Wounded Attachments of Identity Politics. Zizek is right there are just two groups those struggling for emancipation and everyone else. If you are struggling for the rights of your identity group you are in the "Everyone Else Group."

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

aex and gender are best conceptualized as points in a multidimensional space

Tingle Tangel Drag Cabaret | March 2009 | Cafe Du Nord San Francisco

It might seem natural to regard intersexuals and transgendered people
as living midway between the poles of male and female. But male and female,
masculine and feminine, cannot be parsed as some kind of continuum. Rather,
sex and gender are best conceptualized as points in a multidimensional
space.

Fausto-Sterling

Recreating Titian's Venus With A Random Stranger @Dolores Park

Playing At Dolores Park | A Hobbit Gathering Under A Tree

Jasper Documents Jasper And A Baby

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Jasper%20%26%20Baby%20Anja.mp4 (5950 KB)

Reprint | Jan 24 2010
Happy Sunday morning sweeties,
Take a look at this while you drink your morning coffee. I find this document of a young being, fascinating. “More”.
Anya is just learning to interact. She learned to point about a month ago. She points and things are brought to her. It is a measure of her interest. It means “More! This is Interesting.” When she sees herself in videos she shows a level of enrapture and focus that I never have. Her constant pointing is kind of like saying “WTF!, OMG! This is so utterly fantastically cool. “
In one Zen Buddhist Narrative, babies are enlightened beings who have not yet unlearned enlightenment.
I see that quality in Anya’s rapt attention, like a pool without ripples.

11,500 Year Old Temples Found In Turkey. Before Agriculture!!!

via ablogabouthistory.com

This discovery changes a lot about how we conceive of History. Nomadic Non-Agricultural Civilizations Built Temples and Artwork, 6,000 years before the Pyramids.

kusama pyjamas (Genderfork is Sponsoring an Art Show! —...)

Genderfork is Sponsoring an Art Show! — Genderfork

There is an AMAZING art show happening in San Francisco right now. It’s on the third floor of the LGBT Center, and will be running until March 6th. After that, it will be traveling elsewhere (keep an eye on their site to find out where). Genderfork sponsored a creative, interactive piece that’s part of it.

By “creative and interactive,” I mean we built a slot machine. For gender and sexuality. Sort of. I can’t explain it, but it’s awesome, so I’m gonna try to show it to you… So here is me, your friendly site founder Sarah Dopp, attempting to Show! You! It! on video…

via kusamapyjamas.tumblr.com

Body Fascism Is Over If You Want It To Be

(Sex Positive Queer Fat Femme in San Francisco)

London Fat Activism 101

Charlotte Cooper, the very witty fat/queer activist, essayist, zine contributor, girl gang leader and all sorts of things-er, is coming to Goldsmiths to give a talk on why she is a fat activist. If you've ever felt rejected or ashamed because of your looks, fat or thin, boy or girl or trans etc., come along and prepare to have your eyes completely opened. Body fascism is over if you want it.

via facebook.com

Monday, February 22, 2010

SF High Femme Dreaming in Dolores Park

(An Afternoon At Dolores | Jasper Gregory)

In Spring of 2009. I started to explore perspective. Before that I had been shooting straight on. I discovered perspective by holding the camera above the subject and moving it randomly. I discovered that almost every “Random” shot was better than when my mind was “Lining up objects”.

I was just beginning to understand light and to think in the language of light.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

New Age Spirituality: The Opiate of The Elite? -zizek

The "Western Buddhist" meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us to fully participate in capitalist dynamics while retaining the appearance of mental sanity. If Max Weber were alive today, he would definitely write a second, supplementary, volume to his Protestant Ethic, entitled The Taoist Ethic and the Spirit of Global

via cabinetmagazine.org

Feb 21 2010I agree with Zizek. As a mass religion, California New Age is kind of superficial. People work like dogs here, in jobs that are killing them. They buy enlightenment on the weekends by adopting the New Age hipster look, forking out serious money for Raw Food, Yoga and New Age dance. Following Zizek's logic, the four dollar Heirloom Tomato from the Farmer's Market, is a fetish object or transitional object that we cling to, in order to repress the fundamental alienation that we feel in our Contemporary, Californian, Elite Lives.
I disagree with Zizek about the Mystic Traditions springing out Asia. Zen and other Buddhist models have a very sophisticated epistemology, and set of body-mind-breath disciplines for investigating the Self.

WATERDANCE - Video Gallery

via davidadance.com

(Davida was one of my Waterdance teachers at Harbin Hotsprings. She gives waterwork in Marin County just north of San Francisco)

Feb 21 2009
I learned to do that. I spent four months going native at Harbin Hotsprings. In the end it started to get too intense. Underwater bodywork is an extremely altered state. Many people go back to the womb.

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