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Male Pregnancy is one of popular plots setting in female fanfic culture and females enjoy seeing their appreciating male characters suffering from pregnancy and becoming vulnerable. This is the embodiment of fanfic community females gazing at males and showing what these females want to see in this process. The project explores why and what females enjoy when they see Male Pregnancy, and try to create a space where the power dynamic between genders is inverted, and gives females the agency to look, feminizing and objectify the male body.

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Mpreg Paperdolls

Graduate Thesis: Male Pregnancy Part III

Mentor: Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips, Bobby Joe Smith III

Illustration, Typography and Writing

2021

Male Pregnancy is one of popular plots setting in female fanfic culture and females enjoy seeing their appreciating male characters suffering from pregnancy and becoming vulnerable. This is the embodiment of fanfic community females gazing at males and showing what these females want to see in this process. The project explores why and what females enjoy when they see Male Pregnancy, and try to create a space where the power dynamic between genders is inverted, and gives females the agency to look, feminizing and objectify the male body.

Paper dolls are often regarded as little girls’ toys, and the themes are often limited to beautiful girls and family life.  I made paper dolls with the theme of Mpreg, in order to show that these pregnant men can also be used as toys for girls, and become the object of girls’ games and fantasies. The interactive approach emphasizes the relationship between subject and object, play and being played.

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