Tania Hammidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 321384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tania Hammidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tania |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammidi |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMIDI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | c Research Associate in Textiles and Clothing, University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unapologetically Rain
The fashion section for issue 3.1–2 of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly features two interviews conducted by Tania Hammidi, who currently represents a central voice in all things trans* and queer in the fashion world. Tania Hammidi is the founder of Queerture: Queer + Couture, an organization highlighting LGBTQIA fashion design, illustration, modeling, and style innovation. Hammidi also writes about fashion and dance, curates fashion shows, and…
She Ain't Taking It
Vanessa Craig is a suit consultant, fashion designer, and queer-events curator working it for two decades out of Los Angeles. Craig has a wicked taste for disco balls and uses her skateboard for pretty much everything. Her clothing lines include Sew-Gay and X-Killer, both design concepts utilizing silk screen, fashion design, and queer-community embodiments and knowledges. Through art, satire, and that special savoir faire, Craig creates queer, t…
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Sho-Lo Showdown
This essay examines standards of beauty in the lesbian community, particularly as they surround specific haircuts, including the nearly universally disliked but frequently worn sho-lo (mullet). The essay asks three questions: what triggers a strong negative reaction to the cut among lesbians; why and how has the cut survived so long given its widespread dislike; and what can discussion about the sho-lo reveal about disregarded lesbian beauty idea…
Doing Beauty
Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function li…
Appearance Management as Border Construction
Who we say we are and how we strive to look are but part of the negotiation of identity and appearance. While previous research has focused on the construction of who we are, in this paper we examine the negotiation of who we are not. We explore the vantage point and examine statements of identity not, questioning whether they allude to the mere antithesis of identity or to more complex identity ambivalences. Drawing from nearly 300 interviews, w…
Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style
This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays…
Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style
This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays…
Appearance Management as Border Construction
Who we say we are and how we strive to look are but part of the negotiation of identity and appearance. While previous research has focused on the construction of who we are, in this paper we examine the negotiation of who we are not. We explore the vantage point and examine statements of identity not, questioning whether they allude to the mere antithesis of identity or to more complex identity ambivalences. Drawing from nearly 300 interviews, w…
Doing Beauty
Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function li…
Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style
This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays…
Appearance Management as Border Construction
Who we say we are and how we strive to look are but part of the negotiation of identity and appearance. While previous research has focused on the construction of who we are, in this paper we examine the negotiation of who we are not. We explore the vantage point and examine statements of identity not, questioning whether they allude to the mere antithesis of identity or to more complex identity ambivalences. Drawing from nearly 300 interviews, w…
Doing Beauty
Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function li…
Sho-Lo Showdown
This essay examines standards of beauty in the lesbian community, particularly as they surround specific haircuts, including the nearly universally disliked but frequently worn sho-lo (mullet). The essay asks three questions: what triggers a strong negative reaction to the cut among lesbians; why and how has the cut survived so long given its widespread dislike; and what can discussion about the sho-lo reveal about disregarded lesbian beauty idea…
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Unapologetically Rain
The fashion section for issue 3.1–2 of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly features two interviews conducted by Tania Hammidi, who currently represents a central voice in all things trans* and queer in the fashion world. Tania Hammidi is the founder of Queerture: Queer + Couture, an organization highlighting LGBTQIA fashion design, illustration, modeling, and style innovation. Hammidi also writes about fashion and dance, curates fashion shows, and…
She Ain't Taking It
Vanessa Craig is a suit consultant, fashion designer, and queer-events curator working it for two decades out of Los Angeles. Craig has a wicked taste for disco balls and uses her skateboard for pretty much everything. Her clothing lines include Sew-Gay and X-Killer, both design concepts utilizing silk screen, fashion design, and queer-community embodiments and knowledges. Through art, satire, and that special savoir faire, Craig creates queer, t…
Sociology (5 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Clothing (2 works)