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Yesterday I got an interesting e-mail from Trevor:
hey, i just wanted to point out that i’m pretty sure i read on a forum
somewhere that Utah is actually a “she.” i know that “a forum somewhere”
is not exactly a specific or valid reference, but my girlfriend always
points out whenever i refer to a writer i don’t know personally as “him”
or “he,” so i thought i would pass this along.
True enough! Now, I could claim plausibly that it was just the inherent sexism in our language- the way we usually default to the masculine- but I honestly assumed that Utah was a dude!
The graffiti culture of bombing, getting up, going over, beef- and all that- is just so perfectly, stereotypically, masculine.
I suppose, then, that “street art” is feminine- as epitomized by Swoon, the first lady of street art. I think that my approach is very much like Swoons- more like Swoons, in fact, than any male artist I can think of right now! Maybe that’s why I get comments like this:
“I love Posterchild. Until recently I always figured it was a girl… not sure why.”
(The purposeful ambiguity of my name helps too, I’m sure.)
Now,
To be fair, Graff is hugely lopsided- very male dominated.
If you’re on a game show, and you have to guess the gender of a tagger, the smart money is on “Dude”
In any case, today we’ll refer to this tagger only by their chosen name, Cream 3.
That’s a good solution, I think.
Original, untagged stencil here.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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