"Selfie as Self-Love: Coyote Park’s Decolonizing of Photography," in US History in 15 Photographs 1865 to the 21st century. Edited by Rebecca S. Wingo and Lauren Tilton.
"Selfie as Self-Love: Coyote Park’s Decolonizing of Photography," in US History in 15 Photographs 1865 to the 21st century. Edited by Rebecca S. Wingo and Lauren Tilton.
Trans self-representations in photography over the past decades have begun to demonstrate that not only is gender far more complex than hetero-patriarchal, white supremacist, colonialist ideologies would have us believe, but that photography is yet to be understood in all its complexities. Trans selfies are particularly well suited to providing an opportunity for methodological intervention in gender, portraiture, and photography. This chapter explores how 2Spirit, Indigenous (Yurok) Korean-American transgender artist Coyote Park's diptych selfie posted on October 10th, 2022 utilizes canonical portrait aesthetics paired with emergent tactics of selfies while intervening in understandings of identity to create a nuanced and timely decolonial intervention into discourses of gender, photography, and representation.