Monster fashion
fashion as a cyborg tool on Fecal Matter’s Instagram account
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Fashion, Body, Gender, Photography, InstagramAbstract
Canadian duo Fecal Matter is the best-known representative of a type of extreme drag that has been gaining popularity on social media since the late 2010s. Using prosthetics, makeup, self-made clothing and digital image manipulation, the duo creates high-impact fashion photographs which clearly strive towards post-human forms of corporality, blurring the boundaries between organic and inorganic, masculine and feminine, animal and vegetable. Using the figure of the cyborg as proposed by Donna Haraway (1991) and Paul B. Preciado’s notion of “biocodes of gender” (2018), as well as photography and fashion theory, I analyze a few images posted on Fecal Matter’s Instagram account. Through them, I view fashion as an ambiguous apparatus: while it produces normative masculinities and femininities, it is also in constant opposition to the notion of a fixed identity, working as a cyborg tool for unrealizing gender, the body as an organic whole and the primacy of the human.
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