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About the Sinister Wisdom 2027 calendar

Sinister Wisdom 2027 calendar pays homage to The Blatant Image, a magazine of feminist photography that published three issues between 1981 and 1983. Though few, its issues were radically important. Published by Rootworks, a womyn’s land group in Oregon, The Blatant Image challenged photographers to create images that explored lesbian-feminist issues and resisted heteropatriarchal stereotypes. Contributors included names familiar to Sinister Wisdom readers including Cathy Cade, Barbara Hammer, Carrie Mae Weems, Ruth Mountaingrove, and of course, the luminary Tee Corinne. Together, contributors to The Blatant Image explored the many powers of photography: how images could either further the patriarchy or act as tools of collective liberation.

With the 2027 Sinister Wisdom calendar, the included artists build upon those ideas, specifically illustrating how contemporary lesbian photographers have continued to use the medium as a revolutionary tool. Whether through the reclamation of early photographic processes or the use of subversive new media, through intimate representation and self-portraiture that evoke the lesbian gaze or through the act of bringing those at the margins into view, lesbian photographers expand existing notions of both lesbianism and photography.

Artists in the Sinister Wisdom 2027 calendar include: alina balseiro, Tomorrow Blake Chapman, Shia Rówan Conlon, Sophia Cutino, Morgan Lieberman, Camille Farrah Lenain, Felicita Felli Maynard, Andina Marie Osorio, Alia Romagnoli, Jeanette Spicer, Morgan Sears Williams, and Yvelizra.

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