黑料正能量

Fashion Talks at 黑料正能量 2021/22: Between Consumption, Criticism and Activism.

Ben Barry 鈥�Misfit Masculinities: Self-Fashioning in a Sanist and Ableist World鈥�

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 at 6.30pm (CEST) online.

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About the talk:

This talk explores how Disabled, Deaf and Mad men and masculine non-binary people engage with clothing to navigate the social world and make their own worlds. I draw on sartorial biographies and fashion hacking workshops from the research project鈥擟ripping Masculinity鈥攖o share how disabled masculine experiences of consuming and constructing clothing stretch dominant understandings of body-minds, gender and fashion. By introducing the concept of 鈥渕isfit masculinities,鈥� I demonstrate how disabled masculine people鈥檚 encounters with clothing provide layered and liberatory understandings of fashioning masculinity that are an antidote to hegemonic masculinity, white supremacy and compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness. This talk provides a shift away from the dominant framework in fashion studies in which marginalized bodies are primarily storied as damaged and oppressed. It centers the wisdom, creativity and joy that comes from Disabled, Deaf and Mad people鈥檚 relationships and experiences with clothing because of, and without denying, systemic oppressions.

Ben Barry鈥檚 talk is part of听this year's听Fashion Talks at 黑料正能量听entitled:听Between Consumption, Criticism and Activism 鈥� organized by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian (Fashion Studies, Department of Communication, Media and Culture).