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Collected Item: “This is what a lesbian couple dealing with breast cancer looks like.”

What is your name?

Lori Payne Benker

What are your pronouns?

She/Her

Use the following phrase for your photograph's title, filling in the blank with however you self-identify. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.): "This is what a _______ looks like."

This is what a lesbian couple dealing with breast cancer looks like.

Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement or answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..."

This is what being lesbian means to me...I can depend on my wife, my rock.

Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text for future visitors to this website.

Photo of me (in head wrap) on a rare outing with my wife as I'm going through chemo for breast cancer.

Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve quarterly? Do you confirm that you are the photographer of this image?

Yes

What is your instagram handle?

krutchgirl

In the event that you win this contest, how can we best contact you: Instagram, email, or other? If other, please provide contact details.

email
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