Collected Item: “My Sex Now Two”
Your Name
Luka Fisher
Your Pronouns
She/Her
Instagram handle, if any
@lukafisher
Work Title
My Sex Now Two
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2025
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[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.)
Bi dyke, trans woman
[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)
This photo is from my Luce Irrigary Trans. Luka Fisher series, I explore essentialist ideas pioneered by second-wave feminist philosophers about embodied knowledge and re-perform them to see what happens when a different body speaks, using the tools of surgical intervention, social sculpture, image making, and the iconography of a student body such as foam fingers. The photo was taken one day after my gender reassignment surgery by longtime collaborator Kayla Tange as part of our broader series of co-created portraits which we make of each other.
[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."
A woman laying in a hospital bed after her gender confirmation surgery with a foam finger, a symbol of the student body, which reads My Sex Now Two.
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
[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
[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.
I understand