i love using 'girl' in a nongendered context!! i feel like it's fun, it's flirty, and brings a certain type of innocence that is more about freedom and enthusiasm for expression/existing
yes!!! I have a ton of thoughts about divorcing girlhood from gender!! Especially if we like look at girlhood as a set of aesthetics, anyone can access it for different reasons (like healing or play like you point out) that have nothing to do with gender! glad you caught my vibe 🫶🏻💗
i'm genderfluid so reconnecting to girlhood has been very healing in its own way. womanhood is a bizarre concept to me rn (like i feel so confused when i am misgendered as woman) even tho i know women are amazing! i'd love to read how you would explore this ♡
Ditto on making me hip to Qualeasha, now obsessed.
And my favorite femme artist (for almost 20 years now) is most definitely China Adams, a conceptual artist that makes the viewer question ownership of one’s body, all in a really irreverent way.
aww yes thank you for reading!! I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Qualeasha’s work since I first saw it. I think she’s got a solo show debuting in North Carolina soon! and thank u for the tip on girls in bed. I’m checking it out right now 💗🫶🏻💌
I do yes!!! I love love love Hannah Epstein (more fiber arts - I wrote about her a few issues ago); Sydnie Jimenez is also brilliant, gonna write about her soon!; and then the OG has to be Tracey Emin for sure.
From Artsy: “her work has incorporated phone sex, beauty pageantry, decluttering, fashion design, vampirism, and the selling of deeds to bones in her body, collectable on her death.”
i love using 'girl' in a nongendered context!! i feel like it's fun, it's flirty, and brings a certain type of innocence that is more about freedom and enthusiasm for expression/existing
yes!!! I have a ton of thoughts about divorcing girlhood from gender!! Especially if we like look at girlhood as a set of aesthetics, anyone can access it for different reasons (like healing or play like you point out) that have nothing to do with gender! glad you caught my vibe 🫶🏻💗
i'm genderfluid so reconnecting to girlhood has been very healing in its own way. womanhood is a bizarre concept to me rn (like i feel so confused when i am misgendered as woman) even tho i know women are amazing! i'd love to read how you would explore this ♡
Ditto on making me hip to Qualeasha, now obsessed.
And my favorite femme artist (for almost 20 years now) is most definitely China Adams, a conceptual artist that makes the viewer question ownership of one’s body, all in a really irreverent way.
I love this post. Thanks for putting me onto Qualeasha + I’m also a hugeeee fan of blind box gender reveals 😭 they’re hilarious
and if you haven’t already checked it out, I think you might like Morgan Maher’s “girls in bed” !
aww yes thank you for reading!! I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Qualeasha’s work since I first saw it. I think she’s got a solo show debuting in North Carolina soon! and thank u for the tip on girls in bed. I’m checking it out right now 💗🫶🏻💌
I like Qualeasha's stuff! Do you have any other recs for contemporary female visual artists? :)
I do yes!!! I love love love Hannah Epstein (more fiber arts - I wrote about her a few issues ago); Sydnie Jimenez is also brilliant, gonna write about her soon!; and then the OG has to be Tracey Emin for sure.
Oh also! Rebecca Morgan. I love her paintings - so deranged
I only recognize Tracey from this - I wrote something on "My Bed" for a project in HS. I'll check out the rest though, thank you!
From Artsy: “her work has incorporated phone sex, beauty pageantry, decluttering, fashion design, vampirism, and the selling of deeds to bones in her body, collectable on her death.”
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-la-artists-work
Wowowow their stuff is amazing!! I love how they document material culture (https://chinaadamsart.com/portfolio/ms-american-woman/) in their installations 😍 that is my shit