gender-bending

Example Sentences

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After all, what could enrage reactionaries more than a confident, gender-bending, anti-colonial Puerto Rican performing in Spanish on the country’s most mythologized stage?

From Salon

Deeply influenced by the coarseness of 1960s garage bands, minimalism of the Velvet Underground and gender-bending of the New York Dolls, proto-punk bands of the early 1970s began as a gritty rebellion against flashy arena rock.

From The Wall Street Journal

Delighting in the performance and applauding from the floor pit are gender-bending members of the new bohemia, alongside champagne-sipping deputies in tuxedos of the Berlin elite.

From Salon

Half-prank, half-pastiche and 100% punk rock, the film’s mishmash aesthetics are due to the many artists who volunteered to build out Drew’s gender-bending Gotham City by any means necessary, from animation to stop-motion to miniatures.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2018, L.A. choreographer Benjamin Millepied created a site-specific gender-bending version of Prokofiev’s ballet with his L.A.

From Los Angeles Times