Collected Item: “This is what a queer nongender-conforming clown looks like.”
Your Name
Genesis Quiroz
Your Pronouns
she/they
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. 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 queer nongender-conforming clown looks like.
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
To be a queer clown is to perform. Someone who shares joy and hope with others who need it the most. When I feel gender dysphoria, and I can’t describe the confusion that goes on in my head, the quickest way to find relief is to paint my face. Behind the makeup, I can be who I want to be. Without worrying what gender I am or what my role is meant to be. I feel free and invite stares from strangers, rather than look down and give them mean glares. I get to happily be my silly clown self with no care for judgement. This is what being a queer clown means to me.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
One person with clown makeup on a piano covered in paint being displayed as a work of art.
[Agreement] 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 Archive and Curve Quarterly?
Yes
Instagram handle, if any
@eggenesis
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
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