Cat Dawson

Cat Dawson’s research explores the social construction of subjectivity through queer, feminist, and anti-racist representational strategies in postmodern and contemporary American culture. They are currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Wardell Milan: Amerika. God Bless You If It’s Good To You holds within one unified structure, two incongruent ways of being in the world.
Wardell Milan, Fuck the Klan., 2019. Aquatint, line etching, soft ground, burnishing, spit bite aquatint, sugar lift aquatint, 19 7/10 x 15 7/10 inches. Courtesy the artist and David Nolan Gallery.
It is hard enough to envisage the future when everything seems possible; harder still in conditions that threaten to foreclose on bodily integrity, or one’s very survival. Such is the history of queer representation which, in deference to juridical realities, long relied on coded representations for self-representation.
Felipe Baeza, Tu, que brotas en la noche, 2018. Ink, watercolor, cut paper, egg tempera, and embroidery on panel. 12 x 9 in© Felipe Baeza, courtesy Maureen Paley, London / Hove.

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