Yance Ford Quotes

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

I never worry about the social backlash against my work because I'm a man in a dress, and somehow American society creates a buffer on how severe things are when you put a man in a dress.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

I'm naturally androgynous. I don't wear makeup or skirts.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.