Vaginal Davis

In Vaginal Davis' pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets racial justice and resistance meets joy. An icon of contemporary queer history, Vaginal Davis has made scenes for a living: through diverse and outrageous personas, and as a part of bands, spanning music, performance, installations, lectures and visual art. This title is an uproarious celebration of Davis' work and legacy. Includes tributes from fellow âcolleagues, concubines coconspirators.âShe has achieved cult status as a self-proclaimed âsexual repulsiveâ and a âdrag terroristâ-shattering notions of mainstream conformity and the sanitization of Black, queer and Chicano cultures for appropriation by white audiences.This bilingual English/Swedish catalog is Z-bound (English on one side, Swedish on the other) and takes readers on a whirlwind tour across the artist's protean output: from her early punk shows to her recent âfantasy libraryâ imagined as a teenager's bedroom. Vaginal Davis was born intersex in Los Angeles to parents of Black Creole, Mexican, Jewish and German descent. Naming herself after radical Black feminist Angela Davis, she emerged in the queer punk scenes of Bushwick and Los Angeles in the 1980s before moving to Berlin in the early 2000s.