Do you ever wonder what our world would look and feel like if we celebrated rather than denigrated difference? Imagine all the people living life in peace or at least without the crushing need to conform to obligatory norms, including but not limited to gender, body, racial and cognitive norms. Del LaGrace Volcano, aka as MaPa to their two young enby children, shows what theory put into practice can look like.
Del LaGrace Volcano (born California 1957) is considered to be one of instigators of queer LGBTQI+ culture with a working practice that not only documents a ‘queer time and place’ but are also iconic testaments to the love, lust, and burning desire to defy the forces that seek to destroy, disrespect and deactivate us. Volcano has produced five photographic monographs: Love Bites (1991), The Drag King Book with Jack Halberstam (1999), Sublime Mutations (2000), Sex Works with Beatriz Preciado (2005) and Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities with Ulrika Dahl (2008). Their work has also been included in numerous books, journals and films, on art, gender, photography and the body for the past 40 years!
