Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Musician, Artist and Provocateur, Dies at 70

Source: New York Times

By John Leland

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the provocative British musician, writer and visual artist who pushed the limits of gender and the self, often using her own skin as her medium, has dropped her body.

At least, that is how she might have described the transition. Even in death, she would not have wanted to be held to drab social norms.

Genesis’s daughters, Genesse and Caresse P-Orridge, announced her death in a statement shared on Facebook by her manager, Ryan Martin. They said Genesis died at her home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Saturday from leukemia. She was 70.

Genesis led the influential British rock bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, dabbled as a dominatrix in New York, ran a soup kitchen in Kathmandu, hid out from Scotland Yard, organized a cultlike fan club that asked initiates to send in their bodily fluids, and undertook a long-running surgical project to merge identities with her wife, Jacqueline Mary Breyer, in a single nongendered being they called a “pandrogyne.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/arts/music/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-dead.html