Fusion Poet​

Shoot Me! I Love Fashion.

  The Life of a Dandy Butch Queer

 

 Shoot Me! I Love Fashion: The Life of a Dandy Butch Queer is meant to preserve and archive the life of an interracial, queer identified, entertainer and poet. The main character is compelled to share intimate stories that speak openly about her identity, fashion sense, and life as a fusion poet --entertaining predominantly straight audiences.  Elements of this book are vulnerable, shocking, and beautiful about the struggle to identify as a masculine of center female that took nearly two decades to determine. This is a collaborate effort featuring beautifully crafted images by photographers: Stephen Davis Phillips, Jessica Lipton, Magdalena Niziol, Jason Poulin, Judith Taillon, and Pierce McCleary. 

 

“Shoot Me, I Love Fashion: The Life of a Dandy Butch Queer” is a unique collection of autobiographical fiction, poetry, and photographs by writer and fusion poet, Alzenira Santos Amaral Quezada.

 

Conservative ideas of gender created rigid formulas within which an individual can gain acceptance. Therefore, invisibility became vital to the survival of the transgendered person.  But gender presentation is more sophisticated than outward appearances.

 

As more youth have begun asking questions about gender, gender re-assignment, and what it means to be queer in contrast to being homosexual, there are few too many books available on the subject of gender spectrum.

 

In the early 90’s, it seemed as though an unusually large population of masculine-of- center identified females began to transition to males. Often called butch flight, many transsexual men have lived openly for decades with their wives and families while the butch became nearly extinct.

 

Almost simultaneously, gender identification became a hot topic of conversation. Politically active transsexuals, transgendered individuals, and gender-fuck performers began to rise from the ranks, making it more possible than ever to live openly as queer.

Books and movies like S/He, Butch is a Noun, Stone Butch Blues, Boys Don’t Cry, Tipping the Velvet, and Albert Nobbs have been influential in breaching the deep history of the queer community. This book examines the life of the present day dandy butch queer, not as a historical figure, but as a thriving entity.