Elliot and Lucia, Melbourne, 2018
Lucia and Elliot started dating in Berlin, where they both live. She is from Argentina, he is from Australia. It was the first time Lucia came to Australia to visit Elliot's family. She said that getting outside of Berlin's alternative bubble woul
Beyond our bodies is an ongoing feminist project about female and non binary people's narratives in the contemporary world. It's about giving representation, voice and empowerment to marginalized bodies through an intimate gaze. It unfolds how
While gender roles and representations are slowly shifting in modern societies, it is important to redefine terminology and show people who break the rigidity of gender boundaries in their daily lives, by challenging normative gender structures enfo
Shoshana, Melbourne, 2019
"I've always found myself on the periphery of peripheral groups: punks, queers, Jews... I'm always too A for B, too B for C etc. I've been very lucky to create my own communities and spaces with other queerdos and freax who exist in the same liminal
Raynen, Sydney, 2019
Raynen's letter to their younger self, 2019
Letter to their younger self, Raynen, 2019
Mini, Melbourne, 2018
"When I was way younger I went on dates with a bro who mansplained to me what a femme was, and he was telling me that I was a femme, that femme didn’t have to have long hair etc. That just really pushed me away from identifying as femme for so long
Knz, Paris, 2017
Knz left Algeria with her mother when she was ten years old to escape the black decade, a troubled period. They asked for the political refugee status. At that point, Knz's mother's husband was about to take a fifth wife and her mum wanted a bette
When she went back to Algeria after 10 years of absence, her cousins picked her up and asked where was her hijab, that there was no way she could walk around their neighborhood without covering up and dishonor the family. Knz said there was no way,
Monica, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2017
"Actually I don’t identify so much with a group of people or with a gender. I can be very masculine sometimes. It’s really about what the system tells you what you should be or not, it’s also about how hormones work for you at that time of your life
Margot, Paris, France, 2017
" I am made of flesh and hairs"
Waree, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2017
"They raise us to be slaves"
Because if I look at my self in any situation I know how to live. I have 100 baht I know how to live. I'm not crying. I think it is very good to be able to face any side of life. I never want my daughter to be in that stage though. I don’t want to
Serwah, Stanmore, Australia, 2018
" I think femininity is different for everybody. I’ve been doing a lot of research about the Akan tribe that is my father’s tribe in Ghana. It’s so hard having roots in so many places and feeling like in a grey area. My mother is Italian-Dutch, and
Quashani, Kensington, Australia, 2018
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dancefloor", quote on Quashani's dressing table, Melbourne, 2018
"Im a solo artist named Quashani Bahd, I was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. I came to Melbourne 17 years ago with a suitcase pack full of hope, dreams and inspirations and three pairs of shoes. My life is music, art, and fashion. Being a black woman just
V in their rehearsal room, Brunswick, Australia, 2018
"If there is one adjective I hate being described by is SEXY. It repulses me, I find it disgusting, even by a woman. I don’t wanna be sexualized by my friends or by strangers. I’m not someone’s object. I get sexualized enough by people on the stree
Margot, Paris, 2018
"Outside of any gender consideration, it’s hard to identify to its own skin when you’re born in a so called female body. Because women are mainly represented from fake and unreal prospectives in movies, books, magazines … To win the right to be
“While there is nothing more divers, troubling, violent and sometimes painful, often dirty than the experience of our own bodies and life itself ? From birth in blood to pimples, hair, fat, blood, disease, wounds, then wrinkles, and degenerescence
I would like to see women capable of violence, of anger, ready to fight for what’s important to them, their flesh marked, carrying themselves with only their own sense of self, existing without any consideration of beauty. Bestial and monstrous fo
Deliriousink, Melbourne, 2018
"With Java being a very muslim place it’s really important for me to say I’m Javanese polyamorous queer, and I’m not ashamed of it. About feminism, if it’s about actual empowerment I’m into it. But if it’s about some people trying to be the author
"There’s been a moral panic triggered by the Facebook rainbow filter. A lot of people in Indonesia believe that LGBT movement is part of American propaganda to destroy the nation’s morality so we stay as a third world country. After the Lady F
“In Aceh this gay couple got arrested and they got publicly caned on a stage in front of a crowd who was cursing them for being gay. It’s becoming common for neighbors to look into your house if they suspect that you’re living or making out with som
Mini in their lounge room, Collingwood, Australia, 2018
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