Collected Item: “Running Up That Tongue”
Your Name
Ruby Goldner
Your Pronouns
she
Instagram handle, if any
@halfdesertrat
Work Title
Running Up That Tongue
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.)
transsexual dyke (rock dyke)
[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)
We're too obsessed with each other not to try and stitch our bones together and variations on this need come out in ever pressing, evolving ways, this time being satiated by our tongues squashed together while smiling. Like licking ice cream from each other's mouths.
[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 girlfriends in a small room with newspaper wallpaper, their mouths wide open and eyes closed in joy, tongues pressing against each other nose to nose. One is wearing a Transexual Menace t-shirt and the other a green collared top with a grey fanny pack across her shoulder. Both have earrings and tattoos. And, of course, shaved heads.
[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