Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle

<p>This thesis examines the ways in which collage is an ontologically transgender medium due to its freedom from traditional artistic formal and narrative structures. Considering that many trans experiences center around dichotomies, juxtaposition, and self-definition, collage is the best equipped to communicate these experiences in innovative ways. Through interrogations of feminized labor and the ways in which the art world upholds harmful gender binaries, as well as discussions of Femmage, maladjustment, and obsession, I argue that the fragmentary nature of photomontage, digital collage, and videomontage can externally express the multitude of feelings and identities contained within a body, to a greater extent than that of other forms of art.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate School of Art

Year dc:date.available

2025

Author dc:creator

• Wojtkowski, Czeslawa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Monika Weiss
• Heather Bennett
• Sage Dawson

• Transgender
• Collage
• Femmage
• Fiber Art
• Femme
• Feminist Theory
• Trans Theory
• Trans Women
• Non-Binary
• New Media
• Art and Design
• Fine Arts

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mfa_visual_art/31

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:openscholarship.wustl.edu:mfa_visual_art-1035