Mixity ?

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This festival is created by and for deviant people. In other words, anyone who don’t see themselves in , and/or disagrees with, the cisgender and heteronormative spectrums, and is driven by the desire to destroy their inner cops.

We believe and have observed that chosen mixity spaces can reproduce the dynamics of transphobia and transmisogyny*. They can exercise gender policing and a logic of suspicion, surveillance and control over the bodies and gender expressions of trans or non-binary people. We believe that chosen mixity is a tool for re-empowerment, and must not become a protective mechanism that is no longer questioned.

*transmisogyny: oppression at the intersection of misogyny and transphobia

We’d like to imagine a festival for all deviantæs regardless of their background, appearance, or the way they express their gender. And work to create spaces where identities are not suspected but respected.

The festival will be a space for learning and reflecting on these issues, before, during and after the event.

At the “Les Déviant.e.X” festival, everyone is self-determining. In other words, each person determines their own identity. We hope and invite you to be particularly vigilant and collective in order to avoid the dynamics of control and invalidation. The orga and care team will also be vigilant, present and available to support, accompany and react.

warm welcome to non-binary folx, cross-dressers, trans guys, trans girls, intersex people, transmascs, transfems, agender folx, aromantics, ace people, asexuals, demisexuals, bi, pan, questioning, genderfluid, genderfuck, fgs, dkes, queers, sissies, estrogenized fgs, drag queens, transsexuals, trannies, trans dkes, MTFs, FTMs, MTF-to-FTMs, FTM-to-MTFs, male-to-X, female-to-X, male-to-U, female-to-U… queer babies and baby queers, doubting cishets, creatures, old dkes, old fgs, butch neuroqueers, trans f*gs, carabiner dykes, screaming queens, trans Grrrrlz, sparkly gender traitors, uptight aunties, ambiguous-gender folks with clear messages, silly drag queens who aren’t funny, ugly glitter gender traitors, sad gays, bearded fems, Barbies, curious little guys a.k.a. tall girls who’ve seen it all, glittery-striped folks starting to shine again, feathered pans, dragons who’ve lost their scales, fur-covered mermaids, sparkling friends and strangers……

Rather than establishing a mix based on categories or identities, we preferred to make a list of things we want to see and things we don’t want to see during the festival.

What we don’t want:

• Sexist behavior, hegemonic masculinity, r*pe culture
• Being touched on the dancefloor without consent, regardless of gender!
• That we forget we’re mostly white
• That racialized people are fetishized
• That accents are imitated
• That the bodies of disabled people are fetishized
• That our psyche and physical conditions are pathologized
• Of transmisogyny, phallophobia, beard phobia, deep voice phobia
• Invisibilize or minimize violence between women
• Require androgyny when you’re non-binary to be validated
• That our consent, capacity to act and choose are invalidated by having consumed psychoactive products
• That nothing changes when a behavior hurts us
• Of leader, binary thinking, class prejudice
• Don’t give a damn about non-humans (“animals”) on the festival grounds
• People who make a lot of noise in order to ask for less
• People who do things out of obligation
• Have to ask yourself if you belong at the festival

What we want:

• People who question themselves, question established ideas, pay attention to dynamics that reproduce the patriarchal system
• Ask for consent before commenting on people’s bodies/clothes
• That white people are aware of their ordinary racism
• Be aware that we are mostly able-bodied people
• Don’t assume that someone needs help because they’re fat/handicapped/old
• Let all types of psyche have their place
• People without papers or with paper problems
• People without money
• Reflect on anti-cartel and non-punitive solutions
• That bi folks don’t have to prove and reaffirm their sexual orientation
• Be aware that most of us are adults
• That young people are taken seriously
• That old people’s bodies can be desired
• Listening and questioning
• That everyone is attentive to the distribution of the word
• To build tools so that individuals can easily address groups
• Making room for languages other than French
• Co-creating a culture of consent
• That trans women have as much right to make consent mistakes as cis women
• That our bodies have the right to be big
• That trans women have the right to be badass
• Questioning norms of desirability
• Questioning norms of couple/lovers
• Collective explorations, not personal development
• Welcoming into our event the neighbors who welcome us into their region
• Looking to take care of the environment when we enter a space
• Rural queers looking for connection
• Anarcha-queers who want to think about actions and organize politically