The Body; a Beast; a Corporal Compass, in collaboration with MassArt Student Government Association and Godine Gallery, Anukriti Kaushik curates 19 international artists’ work through this project. It highlights visual and written work that provokes and defies rigid norms and traditions pertaining to beauty, gender, and sexuality. In depicting authentic and intentional portrayals of Trans and Queer experience, this publication aims to build and rephrase collective narratives of queerness as a way to create autonomous modes of expression outside of current subjugative ones. Alternatively, it encapsulates the monumental journey of the queer body composing a home within itself and thus dismantling the idea of what an acceptable body, as per heteropatriarchal constructs, should be. It promotes the idea that the body existing in its truest form is itself a transgressive act of resistance.

Cover art by Prithi Khalique

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