"...In the het cis world I'm a hairy female-bodied freak and I'm kind of OK with that. I'm representing a life worth living. I am for femme beards, butch beards, trans* beards, genderqueer beards, transvestite beards, drag beards, post-menopausal beards, PCOS beards, and female beards of all varieties. I think that the beard, as an attribute of that unmarked identity - the white cisgender male - needs to be displaced. We need to make visible those other beards that have been erased from history, depilated into oblivion, yearned for, induced, born of artiface, and set free after years of repression."
Maddy Phelan (now Bastian Fox Phelan) in Ladybeard #2.
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