Collected Item: “Rehearsing Freedom”
Your Name
Becca Lee
Your Pronouns
She/Her
Instagram handle, if any
rebeccalleee
Work Title
Rehearsing Freedom
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2025
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.)
Butch Lesbian
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
This is what being a dyke means to me. It means to take by force the experiences that were withheld from us, and to do them loudly, theatrically, ridiculously. To build our own world inside the one we were born into, where we are allowed to be tragic and hysterical. It means to hold each other in full view of the sun and not shrink under its gaze. To rehearse a freedom that was never granted to us at birth.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
On a sunlit boat with clear skies, Violet, a fat femme, leans over the side, kissing the leg of Duke, a nonbinary person in the water, visible only by their foot. To their right, Teddy, a large transmasc butch, looks toward another boat carrying a buffet of lesbians.
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
[Agreement] Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve Archive and Curve Quarterly?
Yes
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
I understand