Lessons In Worship

Pia Graham

Literal Bimbos, Venus as a Boy & I am My Own Muse

In playing with, and subverting traditional femininity, the photographs in Lessons in Worship, foster and document unmediated femme subjectivities. This body of work responds directly to maintenance of hetero-patricharcal systems and the regulation of sexual hierarchies in urban spaces— simultaneously locating its problematics and resistance. Lessons in Worship imagines how normative expectations of sexuality can become both a site of survival and be appropriated into forms of empowerment.