#Del LaGrace volcano

[holeymolars]

Laura and Nina, Florence (Del LaGrace, 1993)

(Photo ID: A black and white photo of two shirtless butches in swim trunks standing back to back. They are both muscular and curling their biceps. Neither is directly facing the camera, but both have their heads turned to look at it. One is wearing sunglasses, a bandanna around their wrist and a watch, with white trunks and appears to have a tattoo on their ribcage. You can see their left breast, but their right is covered by their arm. The other is wearing zebra (I think) print trunks and a watch. They both have short, curly hair and light skin. They appear to be on the beach, though you can not really see anything in the background besides what appears to be the sky.)

[milksockets]

del lagrace volcano in sex: take a walk on the wild side (masterpieces of erotic fantasy photography) - tony mitchell (2002)

[wintercorrybriea]

Scott’s Bar, San Francisco, 1982

Love Bites: Photographs Book by Del LaGrace Volcano

book of lesbian photography

[queeraroace]

Some of my favorite pictures from The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and J. Jack Halberstam

[agirlnamedbone]

Kathy Acker // ph. Del Lagrace Volcano // 1997

[anonil88]

I have all these ideas but none of the resources including money or knowing people who can do the thing far better than I can, to actually make them come alive. How the hell did del lagrace or Neil gaiman and other creatives do this in the 90s. Was it easier then or no.

[deadrabbitohno]

"I was not transitioning. I had no interest in moving from one fixed point to another. The spaces in-between have always been so much more interesting to me. But this period felt like a turning point in my uncovering the ambiguity in my gender that had always been there. I felt it needed documenting." "For me, I’m presenting myself in the hope that others like me will understand that their difference is valuable, that they can be out and proud and unapologetic, that they do not have to conform."

"There’s now an interest in queer photography and queer photographers. I don’t know how deep that is, or how long it will last. When the year ends and we no longer have the 50th anniversary of Stonewall as a news hook, will the media still make space for us? Will galleries still show our work? Will audiences who aren’t queer still care? Watch this space."

—Del LaGrace Volcano, The Guardian, 2019

[archivodemargenes]

D-Del Lagrace Volcano

[johnmeowston]

The Ceremony, Del LaGrace Volcano (1957)

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Sublime Mutations - by Del LaGrace Volcano

[transsexual-menace]

photo taken of leather dykes in london in 1988 | photo: del lagrace volcano

[ileaveclawmarks]

Little Liza

Del Lagrace Volcano; 1988.

[femmeunderfoot]

femmes of power: exploding queer femininities (ulrika dahl, del lagrace volcano)

no terf/radfem interaction

[rustinged]

The Drag King Book - Del LaGrace Volcano

[bratprincedyke]

From Finnish designer Ellaboucht FIST SS23 collection shot by legendary photographer of Queer life Del LaGrace Volcano

Here’s the image of myself and Gideon taken when I attended the launch

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

In a Queer Time and Place by J. Jack Halberstam

goodreads

In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. He presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture. In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Don t Cry, Halberstam turns his attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. He examines the transgender gaze, as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. He then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities. Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet, but my local library has it, so I'm hoping I'll get around to it sometime soon.