On Our Backs
- Title
- On Our Backs See all items with this value
- Non-binary, Asian butch lesbian See all items with this value
- Description
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- Conceptions of nature, most specifically in the iconography of the American cowboy, have been catered and crafted to symbolize the “ideal masculinity” of a man who “embodies the most precious values of the” United States. This photo is motif of the queer sublime and a theoretical landscape of the wilderness beyond the confines of rigid masculinity, but also draws inspiration from 1970s-1990s lesbian erotic photography. Here, I reconceptualize the cowboy in the traditions of pastoral representations of male same-sex eroticism, as a way to “trans” the cowboy (for lack of better words). It is the gender-outlaw that encapsulates the American cowboy. This image is a representation of the past, but is also a take on visualizing a queer futurity—imaging a world without gender policing and a freedom of performance and the erotic. See all items with this value
- The back pockets of two lesbians' jeans; one slips their hand in the other's back pocket. See all items with this value
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- Creator
- Mattie Provost
- gender
- they/them
- handle
- mattieeprovosttt
- Date
- 2023
- Access Rights
- Yes
- Medium
- I understand
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This item was submitted on March 1, 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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