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Collected Item: “Midtown Mizu”

Your Name

Jessica Vue

Your Pronouns

she/they

Instagram handle, if any

@pointofvou

Work Title

Midtown Mizu

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.)

CIS Bisexual Hmong woman

[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)

Noa Bash (he/him), a transsexual aggressive street and park roller skater, performs a mizu grind in the streets of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia.

[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."

A white transsexual man, in purple roller skates with lime green wheels, grinds on the base of a ledge. His left leg is locked on the building, with his right leg dragging behind. He is skating underneath the trees on a spring day in Atlanta, Georgia.

[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
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