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“Veils beyond veils, honey. / I am ever so much more than twenty.”
In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance today, we invited poet Jameson Fitzpatrick to write about an artwork in MoMA’s collection. Fitzpatrick selected Joyce Randall Senechal and Greer Lankton’s film “The Contortionist.”
“I knew I wanted to address the subjects of trans visibility and persistence, of mortality and memory, without defaulting to the most readily legible modes for doing so. That’s important to me as a trans woman writer…I only became more interested in The Contortionist the more times I watched it, the longer I looked”
Read “If you can be a woman at 20 // can you at 60” on #MoMAMagazine → mo.ma/3G5SuhG
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Joyce Randall Senechal, Greer Lankton. “The Contortionist.” 1978
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