2020 ILLUMINATIONS GRANT FINALIST

golden

Golden is a black gender-nonconforming trans-femme photographer and poet raised in Hampton, VA, currently residing in Boston, MA. Golden is the recipient of a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminary Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), and a Pushcart Nomination (wildness, 2019). Their work has been featured on/at the Shade Journal, the Offing, Button Poetry, Buzzfeed, i-D, Interview Magazine, W Mag, & elsewhere. Golden holds a BFA in Photography from New York University and is currently a City of Boston Artist-in-Residence.

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I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered

Digital Photograph, 2020

I ate the submissive genders of myself and became a diadem

Digital Photograph, 2020

no one asks me if I (always) want to be / the strong one

Digital Photograph, 2020

its my drug, & Ill call it a crown if I want to

Digital Photograph, 2020

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Digital Photograph, 2020