ABSTRACT
With the increasing acceptance toward gender and sexuality minorities, there are activists and artists exploring approaches to raise awareness for this community and to encourage sexual and gender minorities to accept and express themselves. Gender euphoria is a concept developed from this trend of movement to demonstrate a state of alignment of one's psychological state and one's gender expression, aiming at promoting an utter acceptance of oneself and one's gender identity. This essay focuses on analyzing the artwork “Thick” created by artist Ebenezer Galluzzo in the Gender Euphoria Exbihition sponsored by Five Oaks Museum. Ebenezer's artwork discusses the dilemma faced by the transgender community and their embarrassment of existence in the context of Gender Dichotomy. “Thick” includes the topic of the co-existence of masculinity, femininity, masturbation, and nature. By interpreting Ebenezer's work through adapting theories correlated to gender equality, gender euphoria, transgender, feminism, and the relationship between nature and women, this paper concludes that Ebenezer's work “Thick” has a rebellious nature toward the existing gender dichotomy system and encourages the transgender community to pursue gender euphoria in order to accept and love their identity. However, since this essay only analyzed one of Ebenezer's works, the conclusion of this essay is limited by failing to give Ebenezer's work and their stance on the transgender community a holistic review.
