Center for the Humanities Presents: LGBTQ+ Pasts and Futures with Leah DeVun
Join New York-based artist and scholar Leah DeVun as she talks about how her scholarship shapes her creative practice. Her photo series Resemblance depicts her partner, a transgender father, and their son.
In defiance of anti-LGBTQ+ stereotypes about children’s safety with queer adults, Resemblance documents DeVun’s family to show the real people who are affected by the legislative assault on LGBTQ+ rights. These intimate photos ask us to rethink masculinity and vulnerability, as well as what makes a family.
Leah DeVun is the author of the prize-winning book The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance and Professor of History at Rutgers University.
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Resemblance will be on display at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland May 1–31, 2025.
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