Now playing · Tue Oct 6 · 4:30pm
Butch Heroes: An Artist Talk by Ria Brodell
Ria Brodell discusses More Butch Heroes (MIT Press, 2025), 15 paintings and biographies styled as subverted Catholic holy cards, portraying people assigned female at birth who presented as masculine. Brodell, a queer and trans artist and author based in Boston, holds an MFA from SMFA at Tufts, has received an Artadia Award and a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.