Jennifer Nicole
The Resurgence of the Flapper
Every time I go back to my instincts – my trends-be-damned personal style, my very public political beliefs, my gender-bending accessories and even my tendency to fall for “men’s drinks”* in men’s bars while flirting with too many men – I am newly surprised at how, obviously, I should have been twenty in the twenties. [...]
365Hangers: This is What Real Women Look Like
You may have heard, just a couple of weeks ago, that Lindsay and I are battling to the death to see whose shape is better. …Oh, wait. That’s not true. Firstly, Lindsay and I are sort of the same general shape (hourglass – though mine’s shorter and we are made using totally different kinds of [...]
Hating Your Body Before Anyone Else Does
Recently, a few of my friends have made some passing negative comments about their bodies. Usually, I challenge their negativity, they remember I’m not the shame-you-for-everything media, and we go back to whatever it is we were doing before my good friend talked shit about my good friend, forcing me to have to defend my [...]
Down in Old Soho: S Magazine Challenges Androgeny
Until its latest issue, I’d never heard of S Magazine. A few days ago, however, Lindsay alerted me to a photoshoot by Rafael Stahelin, featured in S Magazine’s latest issue, that presses the bounds of androgynous male models to the next level, garbing them in gothic makeup and a combination of men’s and women’s fashions. [...]
Back to Basics: Advertising’s Image of Women
Sometimes it’s best to get back to the basics. The Demoiselles is founded upon the idea that every body – our real bodies, without cosmetic enhancements and Photoshop – is beautiful, and that we must fight against a greedy, marketing-based media to remind ourselves and others of our natural beauty to avoid losing ourselves and [...]
Then They Came For Me
“First they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for me [...]
PBS Reminds Us That Gender Diversity Is Not New
I love it when science proves that what modern society often thinks of as “freaky” has really been normal all along. From PBS.org: “On nearly every continent, and for all of recorded history, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as transgender and gay are strictly new constructs that [...]
Man or Woman? French Connection Questions Gender
Lindsay often makes fun of me. Yes, it’s true. She’s horribly mean. I kid, of course. Lindsay does poke fun sometimes – about as much as I poke fun at myself – and often the subject of the joke is that I always talk about how much I love our differences. “I love that we [...]
The Person I Want to Be
In the past month, one half of The Demoiselles turned twenty-six, the other twenty-eight. I think this is the part where I’m supposed to make some age-related quip – something about being like a fine wine, or wisdom, or maybe my cholesterol – but for me, turning twenty-eight holds no angsty symbolism, no “almost thirty” [...]
Season of Swim: What Are You Wearing?
Memorial Day weekend has begun (or, if you’re already on vacation, you may not see this until it’s come and gone) and rather than gallivanting about Folklife with Lindsay and celebrating my birthday with friends, family and copious adult beverages, I’ll be nursing a bad flu bug and making up for the work I’ve missed [...]
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