gender expression

Gender expression is exactly what is sounds like it is: the way you express your gender identity. Are you a woman? Wonderful! Does that automatically mean you love dresses and adore cat eyeliner? Nope. There are many ways to express one's gender identity whether heteronormative or gender-non-conforming! Historically, gender expression has been commodified and culturalized, dividing the population into either lipstick-lovin-ladies or motorcycle-muscle-men.

But wait--you pick a gender identity, does that mean your gender expression must conform to that identity at all times??? Hell no! Your gender expression can manifest any way you want it to! It's all up to the individual. Today: femme. Tomorrow: genderfuck.

Remember that gender identity includes, but is not limited to, identities such as 'woman' and 'man,' what would be called cisgender. Genderqueer identities are numerous: there is genderfuck and femme and gender fluid and gender neutral and agender and transgender and many more. For more examples, just go to your facebook page and check out the updates gender identification options (not that this list is entirely inclusive, but it'll provide you with a decent basis!)

Jaquan: Hey, Betty looks like a dude today. WTF?
Bailey: Yo, that's just her gender expression. Maybe she identifies as gender-non-comforming.

Jaquan: Oh, tight. Maybe tomorrow I'll wear a skirt.
Bailey: Hell yeah! Express yoself!

by knivesandglitter February 27, 2017

fecal expression

The contortions of the facial structure elicited by an arduous shit.
Usually the result of constipation, diarrhea, or the dreaded constirrhea.

Max had madddd fecal expression after having those subway tacos.

by lbeesntdeirx March 10, 2013

expressionate

Technically this is a non-word, used by those who don't have a dictionary or forgot the word "expressive"

Look up "expressionate" on dictionary.com - you'll find that it is not actually a word.

by someoneliterate February 21, 2008

self expression

1. Personal actions or habits intended to convey, or expose, emotional or intellectual conviction. 2. The act of creating art for the sake of personal gratification. 3. A generalization applied to any action that lacks skill or outside desirability, but is, within it's self, a worthwhile endeavor.

1. It's hard to understand why wearing clothes from Hot Topic is considered self expression, when everyone else is doing the exact same thing. 2. We allow the patients a little time for self expression during arts & crafts; it helps keep them from nutting-up on eachother. 3. It could be said that urban-America is reforming it's self into a more positive environment, by using the art of self expression to cope with all the angst and percieved inequities which once drove it's population to pacify themselves with drugs and crime.

by Shannon September 9, 2003

expressions

Usually how someones face looks that describes how they feel emotionally.

There's many expressions, if someone's angry, their eyebrows may be lowered, and their face tense.

by moomobile7 July 16, 2016

spacial expression

facial expression: the expression or countenance that seems to an onlooker to be represented by the appearance of a person's face, resulting from specific use of that person's facial muscles.

spacial: of or pertaining to space: physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.

spacial expression: a facial expression in space.

A person seen another person's facial expression or "spacial expression." - says a satirist

by [e-mail] February 8, 2013

normal human expression

Someone's shitty excuse for something dumb they did/ are doing

Don't rack on me for pouring milk before cereal, that just my normal human expression!

by Some ol' Hipster October 12, 2017