Rain Dove Plays With Her Gender to Free Your Mind
- 7 years ago
StyleLikeU’s What’s Underneath Interview With Rain Dove Whose Play on Her Gender Will Free Your Mind.
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StyleLikeU is led by mother-daughter duo Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum, who are bound by the desire to uncover what’s underneath personal style. Through candid, docu-style interviews with empowered individuals, StyleLikeU is building a world where getting dressed each morning is an act of self-love.
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“Society rewards me the most for dressing as cisgendered heterosexual white male,” explains androgynous, gender-fluid model Rain Dove, as she shrewdly ranks each of her gender and sexuality shells in order of how safe she feels in public. Rain is an accidental model, who launched a successful career after being goaded by a friend to audition for a Calvin Klein runway show. After being sorted as “male” by the casting director and asked to walk topless with the rest of the guys, Rain did so with her characteristic daring, “boobs out.”
And while this ballsy move launched her career as both a both men’s and women’s wear model known for her fierce gender nonconformity, it was also a formative experience in terms of her own personal struggle with being shunned for who she is, as well as for fashion’s still nascent embrace of non-cisgender identities.
Despite the turbulence that Rain’s refusal of gender norms has sometimes wrought on her life-- growing up, kids referred to her as “Tranny Danny”-- her defiant independence, disarming charm, and unwavering sense of self outside of society’s norms has powered her personal journey to self acceptance.
Thank you, Chantelle for sponsoring this episode and for supporting the self-acceptance revolution. Check out Chantelle here: http://bit.ly/1w4YLlF
Buy Our New Book, True Style Is What's Underneath: The Self-Acceptance Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/True-Style-Whats-Underneath-Self-Acceptance/dp/0789332868?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Follow StyleLikeU:
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/9wJ_b
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stylelikeu/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/StyleLikeU
Tumblr: http://stylelikeu.tumblr.com/
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StyleLikeU is led by mother-daughter duo Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum, who are bound by the desire to uncover what’s underneath personal style. Through candid, docu-style interviews with empowered individuals, StyleLikeU is building a world where getting dressed each morning is an act of self-love.
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“Society rewards me the most for dressing as cisgendered heterosexual white male,” explains androgynous, gender-fluid model Rain Dove, as she shrewdly ranks each of her gender and sexuality shells in order of how safe she feels in public. Rain is an accidental model, who launched a successful career after being goaded by a friend to audition for a Calvin Klein runway show. After being sorted as “male” by the casting director and asked to walk topless with the rest of the guys, Rain did so with her characteristic daring, “boobs out.”
And while this ballsy move launched her career as both a both men’s and women’s wear model known for her fierce gender nonconformity, it was also a formative experience in terms of her own personal struggle with being shunned for who she is, as well as for fashion’s still nascent embrace of non-cisgender identities.
Despite the turbulence that Rain’s refusal of gender norms has sometimes wrought on her life-- growing up, kids referred to her as “Tranny Danny”-- her defiant independence, disarming charm, and unwavering sense of self outside of society’s norms has powered her personal journey to self acceptance.