My Queer Truth
- Title
- My Queer Truth See all items with this value
- Trans nonbinary queer woman See all items with this value
- Description
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- This photo of my triptych of tattoos - featuring Joan of Arc holding the trans flag as the centrepiece – is part of an ongoing act of reclamation of my desecrated queer body. A recurrent motif in my work as a medievalist, transfeminist scholar, creative practitioner and activist, I took this self-portrait for my June 2025 exhibition 'My Queer Truth', an exhibition of my zines with Blossom LGBT, UK. My zines navigate personal and political embodied responses to the extreme, sustained trauma of the 'corrective' gender and identity-based conversion violence that I suffered while growing up. This photo is queer testimony. See all items with this value
- A monochrome self-portrait of a trans nonbinary queer woman with a chest tattoo of St Joan of Arc, holding a trans flag, showing above the lowered edge of their shirt. The surrounding doorway and fairy lights in the background are slightly blurred. See all items with this value
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- Creator
- Teresa Pilgrim
- gender
- she/they
- handle
- @pilgrim_teresa
- Date
- 2025
- Access Rights
- Yes
- Medium
- I understand
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This item was submitted on February 25, 2026 by [anonymous user] using the form “Curve Photo Contest 2026 Submission Form” on the site “Curve Archive”: https://curvemag.omeka.net/s/curve-archive
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