Collected Item: “New Year's Eve”
Your Name
Serena
Your Pronouns
She her
Instagram handle, if any
@sereniamarie
Work Title
New Year's Eve
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.)
Lesbian, masc for masc
[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 masc for masc means to me.
I am lucky to love my woman in her femininity and her multi-faceted multi-dimensional beauty. I touch her soft curves and the wired texture of her top surgery scars. We are lesbians with masc for masc tenderness, and we are love. We are women.
I am lucky to love my woman in her femininity and her multi-faceted multi-dimensional beauty. I touch her soft curves and the wired texture of her top surgery scars. We are lesbians with masc for masc tenderness, and we are love. We are women.
[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 masculine presenting lesbians are in two Photo Booth strips in New Year's Eve regalia giving smiles in one photo, kissing in the next below, and tongue touching in the bottom photo. One strip is in full color and the other is in black and white.
[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