“I Won’t Be Pretty For You: Vulvas Queered” is a gender-inclusive, collaborative community photo project based on each participants’ reimagining of their vulva. Participants include trans women, trans men, cis women, and gender non-conforming queers photographed in the Bay Area, Berlin, Chicago, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. The project defines vulva as “external genitalia of many females, males, and intersex people.”

Vulvas Queered is designed to facilitate and provoke conversation and story sharing about the trauma, delight, power, and pure radicalness of queered vulvas, with the intended goal of deepening the conversation beyond ‘genitals equal gender or sex’, and contest the assumption that the vulva is a body part that should look the same on every body.

Juno Rosenhaus (b. 1962, United States) is a photo-artist working in portraiture and collage to explore themes of self-perception, feminist identities, family dynamics, and queer communities as informed by her experiences as a Dyke-identified social justice activist. An East Coast Dyke of West Coast experience, Juno is based on Lenape Nation land, colonially known as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Juno’s work has been exhibited in Asheville, Chicago, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Portland, and San Francisco. In 2020, Juno launched the Dyke+ ArtHaus, the physical manifestation of her art practice, centering intergenerationality. The D+AH hosts residencies, exhibits, salons, and community events. A curator of Dyke Artists’ work, Juno has curated multiple exhibits for the Dyke+ ArtHaus.

In conjunction with Philadelphia Open Studios Tour (POST), the exhibit will be on view Oct. 18 & 19, 12-6pm, during Dyke+ ArtHaus events through December and by appointment by emailing dykearthaus@gmail.com.