Casa Susanna
| schema:name | "Casa Susanna" |
| schema:creator | Bonnet, Isabelle |
| schema:author | Hackett, Sophie |
| Bonnet, Isabelle | |
| schema:contributor | Stryker, Susan |
| Art Gallery of Ontario | |
| schema:about | gemeenschappen |
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| portretfotografie | |
| sociale geschiedenis | |
| transgender | |
| crossdressing | |
| New York (state) | |
| VS | |
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| schema:abstract | ""The photographs in this book were mostly discovered in 2004, in a New York flea market. Their remarkable survival has opened up the world of the first trans network in the United States. Made in the late 1950s and 60s in the Catskill Mountains, these snapshots chronicle the experiences of men who dressed as women, gender nonconforming people, and trans women in states of relaxation, experimentation, connection and joy. All of this was made possible by Susanna Valenti who on her own journey toward womanhood-created Casa Susanna, a protected space where others could crossdress and live freely as women. Supplementing the images are excerpts from Transvestia, a magazine that allowed those who had been cast out by a rigidly binary society to connect in a different medium. The people who came to Casa Susanna found a spot where they could explore and celebrate their own and each other's femininity, as they could not do elsewhere. Their creations are also a reminder that there were, and still are, many ways to explore the boundaries of gender."-- On front flap of dustjacket."@en |
| "In 2004, two antique dealers discovered 340 photographs from the 1950s‒60s at a flea market in New York City. What made these images singular was that they depicted men dressed as women, whose feminine identity was that of the 'respectable' housewife, the girl next door, or the kind matron. Here we find neither the feathers nor the extravagant make-up of cabaret, just perfect housewives in the privacy of their homes. Behind the photographs lay a vast, hidden network of crossdressers. They were married, loving fathers of the American white middle class. They were engineers, pilots, and civil servants. They embodied the American dream, and its nightmare, in a time of racial, sexual, and political segregation in a Cold War America that censored, repressed, excluded, and hunted down those who violated the gender norms of the time, from crossdressers to homosexuals. Susanna, Virginia, Doris, Fiona, Gail, Felicity, Gloria, and their friends, created a unique collective identity. Despite the risks, they corresponded with each other, got together, organized, and managed to alleviate their isolation through an underground magazine: Transvestia. Their haven was the home of Susanna and her wife Marie, tucked away in the Catskill Mountains, a few hours away from New York City. There they were able to live freely en femme. Photography was essential to their identity as crossdressers; in a quasi-sacred ritual, photographs circulated widely within their community. Despite their now outdated female identities, the Casa Susanna crossdressers broke with the gender prescriptions of their time and defiantly refused to submit to an archaic cult of masculinity. Defiant and determined, they organized the first known trans network in the United States. In their day, the crossdressers of Casa Susanna called themselves 'transvestites' or 'TVs' for short. This term is today deemed pejorative, and we have avoided it wherever possible. In French, however, the only available term is 'travesti'. We have used it here both for historical accuracy, and because most of the members of the Casa Susanna network made a clear distinction between their identities as crossdressers and other trans identities. There are three cases where we have opted to give a crossdresser’s masculine identity: for Felicity, Susanna and Doris. Either they were well-known in their lifetime or their families have given us permission to disclose their identities as part of making visible the difficult conditions that cross-dressing and trans individuals continue to face and the ongoing impact of this discrimination. As historians, we have tried to strike a balance between historical facts, the ways the individuals in the Casa Susanna circle self-identified, and our contemporary awareness of a spectrum of gender identities. Thus, in our view, this community stands as the first known trans network in the United States."-- Curators' statement by Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett (Rencontres d'Arles website)."@en | |
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Casa Susanna: the story of the first trans network in the United States, 1959-1968 |
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| schema:text | Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2023 Photography Catalogue of the Year Shortlist. |
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| schema:text | In English. |
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| schema:text | Introduction / Susan Stryker -- The story of the first trans network in the United States, 1959-1968 / Isabelle Bonnet -- Performing authenticity: Casa Susanna's crossdressers and photography / Sophie Hackett. |
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