Politically radicalized by the 2016 election and #MeToo movement, the photographic projects Banshees+Queens explore female anger and femininity as a performative construct.

Artist Statement

Banshees is a social practice photography and poster project that explores performative female anger in collaboration with artist MAGADETH. Images are created through salon-style photo shoots in which collaborators discuss negative experiences with street harassment before being photographed in high-risk urban spaces at night. They are invited to style themselves in outfits they would not wear in public for fear of eliciting unwanted male attention, and perform their rage for the camera. Images are used to create protest posters available for free online download, democratizing the project and making it possible for the posters to be printed and whetpasted by women everywhere. Banshees posters have appeared in cities that include New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and Austin.

Queens is a photography project that explores femininity as gender performance in collaboration with genderqueer and non-binary collaborators.