Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:43 p.m.

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Full breasts exposed

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, November 14, 2008

The weathered bronze statue strikes the classic Venus de Milo pose — a graceful female figure with rounded breasts and belly, standing in coy contrapposto, covering her genitalia with a casual hand. But the Grecian symbol of womanhood takes a new twist in this photo, sporting a pink tie and short blond wig, with playful orange balloons floating at its feet. Instead of the quintessential feminine image, viewers now face a wacky, whimsical, sexually ambiguous human figure.

All of the art on display at the Afro-American Cultural Center gallery’s exhibit of Trans/Genderqueer art and...

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