WHY NOT CHOP THEM OFF: an exhibition on 'having trans-masc tits'
As part of their MRes studies, kars dodds (they/them) has curated WHY NOT CHOP THEM OFF as a means of documentation towards the futurity of queer, non-binary, and transgender people. Take a peak into the artist’s lived experience of ‘having tits’ as a trans-masculine, non-binary person through photo and written documentation, soft sculpture and performance.
"WHY NOT CHOP THEM OFF" documents and explores their experience of 'having tits' as a non-binary, trans-masculine individual on a fluid gender transition journey. The project aims to protest the sensationalised medicalization of transgender and gender non-conforming people and to spread awareness that GENDER AFFIRMING CARE IS LIFESAVING.
If you are unable to make it to the exhibition but would still like to support kars and this project, you can purchase prints and the fundraiser t-shirt from their Etsy (linked here).
20% of all proceeds will be donated to Queer Croydon. Queer Croydon is 'an open platform for queer stories & events from Croydon and South London'. The remainder will be used to fund kars and future iterations of WHY NOT CHOP THEM OFF.
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Kars (they/them) is a movement-based, material-inspired multidisciplinary artist/performer who enjoys running furiously, far away from technique into the queer ether of self-taught delusion. Their most current project ‘WHY NOT CHOP THEM OFF’ documents and explores their relationship to their non-binary/transmasc tits on their fluid approach to gender transition, and aims to protest the sensationalized medicalization of transgender/gender non-conforming people.
