Keran
Keran
Age: 2001/ 21 this year
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Female
Pronouns: She/Her
Sexuality: Straight
Keran is currently a graduate of Lasalle's Fashion Media course. She graduated from Junior College and took the leap to do an art degree instead despite being qualified for a conventional university degree. She currently runs her own press on nails shop while looking for a job after graduating from university.
Keran believes that the categorisation of masculinity and femininity was perhaps never in black and white and that everyone can have traits of their opposite binary gender and still maintain their identity as the gender they identify with.
“Maybe, in the end, it was never black and white, like femininity and masculinity is always a spectrum and people are seeing what are the ways they can negotiate (their identities) based on that, like I don't have to be fully masculine or fully feminine, I can just be in between.”
"So will having masculine traits make me any less of a woman? I think no because it (these traits) still makes up all of me as a person."
-Keran
"I see masculinity the same way everyone sees it, which is the attributes or traits that you feel like maybe a man or a male would have. These traits could be being strong, assertive or dominant, or maybe even being driven etc."