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By Gerda Wegener, 1925

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BLUGIRL advertisement in Vogue Italia July 2000

Christian Dior, Spring 2003 Couture

Christian Dior, Fall 2004 Couture

deep down you know june is actually going to feel like this. put down the poem excerpts

Ricardo Partida (Mexican, 1990) - Daydream of Ganymede (2021)

Gender play, kink, and futures that touch traditional lifeways are enduring features of Virgil Ortiz’s work.

With “Blind Archers” (2019) and “Venutian Soldier Quest” (2020), the final two ceramic pieces in the show, Ortiz grafts figures to vessels, a technique that demonstrates his remarkable co-innovations with clay. They also comprise stories from Ortiz’s elaborate worlding that enfolds the 1680 Pueblo Revolt with an imagined 2180 into a chiasmus of resistance, resilience, shifting and innovating forms — all eternal characteristics of Pueblo people and lands. The Blind Archers figured in the pot along with Tahu ... orient the viewer to some of Ortiz’s main characters. Tahu, a Keres term of respect for elder Pueblo women, was blinded by a conquistador during an archery contest. She becomes the leader of the Blind Archers in Ortiz’s enduring Pueblo Revolt.