Aspects of our identities such as sexuality and gender are negotiated through style-fashion-dress. We analyzed the recent history of style-fashion-dress through a queer lens by examining how queer identities have been negotiated on and around the body by women in the Midwest region of the United States from the late twentieth century to the present. Based on our research, we created an exhibition using community-participatory practices that allowed us to authentically tell the histories of ten queer-women’s styles. We told stories that reflect some of the long-standing stereotypes of queer woman and the butch-femme dichotomy, but when we unpacked these histories, they more closely aligned with Kaiser and McCullough’s “(k)notty model” metaphor. The women’s garments, styles, and fashions represent the “shifting queer styles” that capture the lived experiences of midwestern queer women in the latter part of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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酷儿时尚与风格

我们身份的各个方面，例如性取向和性别，都是通过风格-时尚-着装来协商的。我们通过研究从 20 世纪后期到现在美国中西部地区的女性如何在身体上和身体周围协商酷儿身份，通过酷儿镜头分析了时尚服饰的近期历史。根据我们的研究，我们使用社区参与的做法创建了一个展览，让我们能够真实地讲述十种酷儿女性风格的历史。我们讲述的故事反映了一些长期存在的酷儿女性刻板印象和女汉子二分法，但当我们解开这些历史时，它们与凯撒和麦卡洛的“(k)notty 模型”比喻更接近。女装、款式、