Gender Dysphoria as Interpreted on Against Me!’s FUCKMYLIFE666

Abstract

Gender in literature includes psychological duality. Gender dysphoria as stated by Anna
Laws is experience of discomfort caused by mismatch between gender identity and sex
assigned at birth. FUCKMYLIFE666 is a song by Against Me! released in 2014. That
American punk rock song depicts the vocalist’s experience in having gender dysphoria
before totally changed his gender into woman in 2012. She totally underlines her
discomfort between being man and woman in her body. Then, how is gender dysphoria
interpreted on Against Me!’s FUCKMYLIFE666? Through qualitative method on cultural
studies, this paper analyzes uneasy condition of being a woman inside a body of a man in
that song. Tensions between nature and nurture is underlined as being original and being
in process are always conflictual. The lyrics of the song shows identity as a multifaceted
concept that could be different over childhood and adolescence as supported by
statements of Laws. In conclusion, the song asserts radical awareness of being a flexible
gender inside a static body. Gender is shown as non-conforming matter since human is
always androgynous in its existence.
Keywords: Against Me!; Anna Laws; FUCKMYLIFE666; gender dysphoria