I wish it weren't the case that the male curators' energy and insight is usually deepest on the male works and weaker, more shallow, and more obvious regarding lesbian art.
I Look Just Like My Daddy, 2003, by Cass Bird
"Through her photographs, Cass Bird asserts the positive existence of people who subvert and push the perceived boundaries of gender specification. She thereby suggests a world that is polymorphous, indeterminate, and androgynous. In this photograph, taken on a rooftop in Brooklyn, Bird's friend Macaulay stares out from under a cap emblazoned with the words, "I Look Just Like My Daddy." Macaulay's gender -- powerfully self-determined against societal assumptions of what it means to be male or female -- is ambiguous. Her cap's proclamation is likewise ambiguous -- perhaps it is true, perhaps it is an ironic statement of an expectation that will never be realized. Bird's sensitivity toward lives that both resist and intersect with accepted notions of gender and family informs her entire photographic practice."
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