Collected Item: “Just Married”
Your Name
Paula Davidson
Your Pronouns
She/Her
Instagram handle, if any
abundant_unknowns
Work Title
Just Married
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.)
I’m a queer Costa Rican lesbian and a proud woman of color.
[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 queer means to me: honoring the love that generations before me fought to make possible.
This photo was taken the day after my wife and I were married, just after brunch — simple, ordinary, and once unimaginable. We chose to marry not only for ourselves, but in celebration of the rights carved out by those who refused to let our love be erased.
Being queer means letting love survive and thrive in spaces where it was once denied. It means joy without apology.
This photo was taken the day after my wife and I were married, just after brunch — simple, ordinary, and once unimaginable. We chose to marry not only for ourselves, but in celebration of the rights carved out by those who refused to let our love be erased.
Being queer means letting love survive and thrive in spaces where it was once denied. It means joy without apology.
[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."
Two people hugging closely outdoors, smiling and sticking out their tongues in a playful selfie. Both are wearing wedding rings, with greenery in the background.
[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