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According to Diogenes Laërtius, when Plato gave the tongue-in-cheek definition of man as “featherless bipeds,” Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato’s Academy, saying, “Behold! I’ve brought you a man!”

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a short and simple performance about male puberty and coming of age. as someone who cannot grow (yet?) a full beard, the act of shaving is not euphoric for my gender expression, as with every follicle of hair that is cut, i feel myself reverting back to a pre pubescent state.

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even as an adult, i feel that my body keeps me somewhere in-between boy and man -hood; i am as manly as diogenes’ man

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