"You can be in control of cross-dressing or it can be in control of you," Doyle says during a recent consultation. "Elaine" (not her real femme name) is what Doyle calls a "serious" cross-dresser: A ...

“Mint to Be: The Feminine Body as Costume Art,” which debuts May 1 at Mint Museum Uptown, reimagines the feminine form as a living canvas by centering the voices of marginalized communities at the ...

Depictions of control, containment and domestication in art appear in whimsical, colorful paintings by Colleen Francis Smith, whose work explores these themes in connection to femininity and womanhood ...

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