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Girls Will Be Boys by Sophia Wallace

I began Girls will be Bois, 2002-2007 because I was compelled to create a testament to my living history as a lesbian whose partners are often on the butch and masculine spectrum.

Butchness, particularly butch BIPOC are targeted with violence, repressed historically, and ignored by the media. Everywhere from popular culture to the law, female masculinity is treated as failed femininity – a monstrosity.

It was vital to me that I document and create a visual testimony of my community that could not be denied. As a queer photographer I felt that my medium was the best way to intervene in the ongoing attempt to marginalize my community. I also lost a friend during this time which had a profound impact on me. Kim, a young butch lesbian, tragically died from a brain aneurysm at 24 years old. Kim’s partner Michelle who had been with her virtually every day during the two years they were together, was not invited to the funeral where Kim was buried in pink suit and coffin with heavy makeup.  Kim’s history is like that of so many queer people. Written by those who seek to deny it.

Girls Will be Bois will always be a historical project for me. Losing a friend and watching another friend be written out of her partner’s life, was a painful reality check about what was at stake if we do not record our own stories.

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does anyone have the drawing/painting of the three orange dogs in a circle and the dog behind the fence is like this is the life i’ve always dreamed of bc my wife and i have been going crazy trying to find it please please i just saw it

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Dawn Lewis, Pool Table, 1987

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J.Nana Park

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I’m so sleep deprived and have not talked to anyone in hours so I’m gabbing on the internet so but like I literally love my job and I don’t know how I got good at it but fuck I am a really good assistant teacher. I don’t ever want a full time teaching job but getting to be whatever type of person these kids need in the moment and also be who I needed when I was their age is so l fulfilling and usually fun. I get to be silly and kind and also mostly literally help teach them math and science. It is so fucking cool and they’re (mostly [sometimes]) such special people

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And also some photos as of recent that have made me happy

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I literally forgot I was in school all week so now I am awake at 5 am (in the morning) doing statistics homework bc if I fail this class I have to drop out forever bc I’d lose my financial aid and I (me, myself, this guy) wants a stupid ass PhD for some reason

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Jade Apple jar to lubricate postage stamps.

St. Petersburg, 1899-1904.

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My wife has presented me with a ring

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A picture of me and my uncle …u get it if u kno..

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Klaus Nomi photographed in 1982.

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Photography by Ren Hang

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