ScholarWorks

Title

Fluidity

Creator

Mattie True Danner, Boise State UniversityFollow

Creation Date

2018

Preview

Medium

photo paper on light boxes with polarized filters

Description

Dimensions: composed of 2 panels, 22 x 22 inches each.

Artist Statement

Fluidity

Male

Female

In-between

Something of a beauty queen

A self-confident king

Fitting in to not one or the other

Fluidly shape shifting like water

Born as a daughter

Raised as a man

Shopping in the boy section

Call me by my male name

I can be one of the boys

Stay out late in the streets

Run

Run

Run

Until ten did I discover what

it meant to be female

Girls got attention

Boys a distraction

The star

Dressing like a girl

Acting how the are

Not sure you are comfortable with the suffocating tights

The bras

Thongs

The horror of it all

Give me a t-shirt and some baggy shorts

Because this girl shit is the worst

I adapted

Society reacted

Pleasantly to the fact

That I was playing the role of a woman

But I am water

I am the moon and the sun

I am this for no one

Other than me

A deer

A buck

Miss

Mister

Neutral blood creeps through me

I can no longer hear the whispers

I can finally see

That no specific gender belongs to me

Through color

Light

Your perception of others is through sight

Wavelengths

Vibrations

Currents

Fluid

Fluidity

Just like me

Like you

Let us look closer

Of what society’s beliefs on gender have put us through

Accept me

Love me

For who I am

Is a woman

And a man

Rights

© Mattie Danner, 2018.