There’s plenty of examples of androgyny in rock history. Queen, Marilyn Manson, and U2 have all worn drag in music videos. Kiss wore makeup. Freddie Mercury and Elton John had camp personas. Where ...

Reiterated in socially conscious spaces until it makes me want to gouge my ears out: “Nonbinary people don’t owe you androgyny!” I’m sure people who say this are supportive and generally understanding ...

Fashion is a powerful language, a vibrant way we introduce ourselves to the world without saying a word. But for too long, that language has felt pretty rigid, especially when it comes to gendered ...

In a 1976 essay titled “Is Gender Necessary?,” Ursula K. Le Guin begins by talking about her motivations for writing “The Left Hand of Darkness”: Along about 1967…I began to want to define and ...

Makeup artist Jeffree Star is one of the Internet beauty community's OG provocateurs. He's not afraid to push the envelope when it comes to expressing himself—be it speaking his mind or using makeup ...

In a 1997 interview on VH1, comedian Chris Rock posed a question to Prince no one had really asked before. At least not as bluntly. “The androgynous thing,” he said. “Was that an act, or were you ...

Androgyny doesn’t get a lot of style icons. That’s what I thought when I first saw the news that David Bowie had died. Bowie meant so much to so many, but for a number of people who have fought to ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, in one of his works, referenced the myth of the androgynous: ancestors and “people of the third gender” who simultaneously possessed tremendous strength and both ...