Potty Training
Artist: Mason Harper, New York City
Description: Public restrooms are far more than functional necessities—they are battlegrounds of regulation, intimate theaters of surveillance, and mechanisms of violent social policing that disproportionately target trans bodies. In direct confrontation with these oppressive architectures, this photography series radically "transes" the public restroom: transforming it into a space that unapologetically dismantles traditional notions of privacy, gendered division, and institutional surveillance. Through blurring the lines between theatrical queer nightlife culture and the gender theatrics and performativity of the public restroom, the photographs dramatize the public restroom as an absurd site of surveillance and performance but additionally further as sites of transformation and resistance.
Funds from this print will support, Friends of the Congo, a non-profit providing transportation, shelters, food and water, sanitation, and security for women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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