Photographer / Creator
- Title
- Photographer / Creator See all items with this value
- Lesbian, Dyke, Queer See all items with this value
- Description
- Yes See all items with this value
-
Two lesbians embrace in the early morning light at the Madonna Inn, paused mid road trip. Both are gender nonconforming. Neither occupies a fixed role of “top” or “bottom,” and neither performs masculinity or femininity for the other. Their bodies meet without hierarchy.
The work pushes against binary frameworks of gender, desire, and relationship structure. Both subjects are non monogamous.
The energy between them is tender and charged at once, sexy but soft. I am drawn to intimacy that is chosen, time bound, and self aware. A sweetness that exists precisely because it does not promise forever.
In the background, a grotesque male figure lingers in the décor, a quiet reminder of the patriarchal gaze that so often frames queer bodies. The image asks whether this intimacy can exist outside that gaze, or whether it must always define itself against it. See all items with this value - Two gender nonconforming lesbians embracing in soft early morning light inside a pink, ornate hotel room at the Madonna Inn; one wraps her arms around the other as they stand close together, with a decorative mural featuring a grotesque male figure visible in the background. See all items with this value
- Yes See all items with this value
- Creator
- Esther Godoy
- gender
- She / They
- handle
- @esthergoodboy
- Date
- 2026
- Access Rights
- Yes
- Medium
- I understand
Site pages
This item was submitted on February 27, 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
Click here to view the collected data.