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I tell her my experience was similar until I got to a school full of girls going through puberty. You hear girls saying they hate wearing heels and itâs painful but you still have to fucking do it.
ÂI totally conformed, tried to go super femme and I would say looking back I was uncomfortable in it.
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Her parents never pressured her to behave in a certain way. âThere was never any issue when I was going out in the workshop with my dad or out in the vegetable patch and there was never any, âOh can you wear a dress or you need toâ,â she says. I looked at him and his suits, his ties, his garter, his shoes and his jewellery and realised, âthatâs what I likeâ.âįlo says that, during her childhood, gender was never foisted upon her she was asked if she wanted to go to ballet class, but instead started playing rugby. When I was growing up, he wore a suit to work every day.
âI donât know,â she says,âbecause I borrowed a lot of inspiration from my dad. Sheâs wearing no make-up, has a strong bone structure and her hair is slicked back to show it off. When I meet Flo for our interview, she tells me that the day before, she looked up masculinity in the dictionary: âIt says it means qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men.â âWhere does that put you?â, I ask, as she sits in front of me, knees apart, in suit trousers, a belt and a white ribbed vest that reveals her armpit hair. Below, we met five of these people, five masc women who are unashamedly themselves. However, times are changing, and itâs the people playing around with our preconceived notions of gender, the people proving that gender can be chosen not given, who are leading this change. A synergy between the way we feel and the way we look is arguably what weâre all striving for, and yet as a society we continue to police people in their search to achieve it if the way they want to dress doesnât conform to what we deem cool within a subculture or social group, say, or appropriate within an institution, or else if someoneâs appearance doesnât align with what we perceive to be their gender. We often think of the feeling of dislocation between inner self and outer self as particular to trans people, but you donât have to be transgender to experience this. And youâre likely to get chucked out of said womenâs toilet if you do.Âįor these reasons, it can take a while to feel comfortable expressing your masc side as a woman. In a world that still, for the most part, expects women to dress like that that little triangle-skirted logo on toilet doors (as a butch I know once said, âwhatâs that triangle, my c*nt?â) it takes bravery to present yourself like a man. These women embrace their masculinity and wear it with pride, but face misgendering, abuse on the street and endless presumptions from strangers. In my own life, particularly as a queer person (and as a soft butch, apparently), I am surrounded by butches, daddys, zaddys, studs, stems and masc femmes. A behaviour, a look, an attitude, women and non-binary people have as much right to masculinity as men do.
With photo stories shot in Tokyo, India, New York, and London and in-depth features exploring mental health, older bodybuilders, and myths around masculinity â we present all the ways people around the world are redefining traditional tropes. Welcome to Behind The Masc: Rethinking Masculinity, a campaign dedicated to exploring what âmasculinityâ means in 2019.
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