Begin forwarded message: > Beyond Lipstick Call for submissions : March 6, 2012 > > > > Fuck Femme Invisibility: > > > > It’s time to stop complaining about being the only femme at the bar and do > something about it. It’s time to claim our style and assert ourselves in the > queer community. High heels, Lipstick, Hair Did – Queer too? WE WANT YOU! > > > > We are only invisible if we sit by the sidelines, allowing others to be the > face of queer identity. Claim your place in the visual landscape of the LGBTQ > community. We know you’re out there: Show Yourself! > > > > Beyond Lipstick is a participatory online exploration of femme identity > through the use of self-portraiture. This project seeks to examine queer > femme identity as it is expressed and communicated through dress and > appearance. The work stems from the assumption that femme is a transgressive > and subversive identity to both heteronormative and homonormative > conventions. Visibility and representation matter: too often female > masculinity is privileged as an authentic expression of queer identity. > > > > Beyond Lipstick is collecting photographic self-portraits to create an online > gallery exhibition to expose femme beauty and style to the LGBTQ community > and world-at-large. These self-portraits will be examined for common threads, > visually and textually, as to how femme identity is translated through > clothing and whether there are any visual signifiers of femme identity that > promote visibility. > > > > This project will only be successful in representing femme identities if the > submissions reflect the diversity in our community. To find this thread, to > come to some conclusions (if there are any to find), to make this project > successful, we need submissions. > > > > Femmes of all shapes and sizes, femmes of all colours and abilities, femmes > of all stripes and spots, Beyond Lipstick needs you! Please participate in > this project by submitting a self-portrait to the website, which seeks to > represent the broadest possible range of femme identity. Identity is plural > and in flux, and so is femme. We invite any self-identified queer femme > (trans* inclusive) over the age of 18 to contribute to the project. > > To participate: > > Go online to http://beyondlipstick.ca/Submissionportal.html > > · Submit up to 3 photographic self-portraits. The pictures do not > need to show your face or any identifying features but should show your > fierce femme style. Pictures should also be under 4MB. > > · Answer the interview questions: > > 1. What is your definition of Femme? > > 2. Do you represent your sexuality through your clothing? > If yes, how? If no, why not? > > 3. How do you identify another femme? > > The photographs will then be processed and submitted to the online gallery, > to be launched late Spring. We thank all participants for their submissions > and look forward to the launch of the Beyond Lipstick exhibition. Please help > to spread this call for submissions as far as can be! > > To keep up to date with the project please: > > Like us on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/pages/beyondlipstickca/316392365051314?sk=info > > Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BeyondFemme > > Follow us on Tumblr: http://beyondlipstick.tumblr.com/ > > > Beyond Lipstick is the work of Connie Laalo, a graduate student of Ryerson > University in Toronto, Canada, as part of her MA Fashion Major Research > Project. Connie is passionate about dress as a mediator of gender and sexual > difference and the role clothing plays in the communication of identity, > specifically in the LGBTQ community. She holds a Bachelor of Design from > Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Vancouver, Canada) and has experience in > many levels of the apparel industry. Her other work in the LGBTQ community > includes: GenderFab, a series of workshops on sewing and alteration skills > for Queer and Trans* youth and work at RyePRIDE, Ryerson Student Union's > queer equity group. Any questions regarding this project can be directed to: > > [email protected] > >
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