Emily Lipson DYKES

Offered for pre-order, delivery end of April. 

“Mostly, [Dykes] has been about change over time. My identity, someone else’s, all of us colliding and ricocheting off one another – messy, painful, kinetic. It’s obviously historically a derogatory term, but, in modern culture, I don’t think people say lesbian as much as they say dyke. It’s normalising and celebrating this reclaimed thing. But the concept of dyke in modern imagery, outside of the community, has a lot of stereotypes. I wanted to make something that felt like it was subverting that. Not everyone in the book at this moment in time is like, “I’m a gold star lesbian”. Some are bisexual. Some are trans masc men or trans fem women. I wanted to try to invite as many people in and ask, ‘Do you feel you belong to this community?’ And ‘Do you want to be seen in this project?’ I was surprised by how many people who aren’t just cis lesbians wanted to be included. There’s a lot of fluidity in the community." (Emily Lipson, for Dazed)

Dykes features Alex Garcia, Alexis Levy, Ama Elsesser, Bear Brown, Cécile Bouffard, Charlotte Day Wilson, Chloe Ridsdill Smith, Coco Gordon Moore, Cristale Copaver, Dominique Gilliot, Evie Saunders, Katie Johnson, Kennah Lau, Laura Spence, Lilli Cummings, Louisa Jacobson, LJ Clossick, Mia Hunter Evans, Morgane Denys Martin, Ngozi Olojede, Oliver Wight, Paige Hunter, Paige Viti, Paloma Gil, Rae Godin, Rose Lawrence, Saphyr Bengrine, Sasha Melnychuk, Venus Yaffa, Yiling Zhao, Zach Toppin, and others.

hardcover, first edition, designed by SJT Studio, 260 x 210 mm, 220 pages, new copy