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Linda Simpson (New Zealander) - Selkie Skin Simulator (free embroidery on hand-knitted Shetland wool/lace, 2024)
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Linda Simpson (New Zealander) - Selkie Skin Simulator (free embroidery on hand-knitted Shetland wool/lace, 2024)
gender
is always a doing —
the deed is everything.
there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted
Judith Butler ; Gender Trouble, p.34
For those who are not living this experience: Those who are contend with it only to the degree society forces us to. Not cause we are confused but because society doubts our being.
Linda Simpson
The New York Waterfront’s Unsung Queer History Over the weekend, drag legend Linda Simpson recounted the little-known queer history of New York City's waterfront to a packed South Street Seaport crowd. A group of drag performers in 1992. Photography by Linda Nelson The oceanic interracial, same-sex commitment ceremonies and mutual sperm oil massages of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; the port town bloodlust of […] https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/queer-history-drag-waterfront-linda-simpson/
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Photographs by Linda Simpson from 1998-2001
More from Linda Simpson’s book “The Drag Explosion”, photographs of NYC’s drag scene in the 80s/90s