Andrej Pejic Quotes

Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

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

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.