Ria Brodell is an artist and educator based in Boston who has had solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and whose work has been featured in the Guardian, ARTNews, the Boston Globe, and New American Paintings. Brodell is a part-time lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully
celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries
'assigned female at birth' who 'had documented relationships with
women, and whose gender presentation was more masculine than
feminine"…This is a serious—and seriously successful—queer history
recovery project.—Publishers Weekly
Butch Heroes is a fascinating, intersectional, feminist art-text
project, and overall a rather wonderful reclamatory book of LGBT
history that subvert and resonates in the human psyche. —The
Advocate
The portraits give homage to contemporary ideas of queer ancestry,
and in doing so give strength to trans and non-binary communities
currently under attack. That makes Butch Heroes worth
celebrating.—Into
Brodell has created a frank, compelling, sensitive, and celebratory
compendium of gender-role pioneers, telling the stories and shining
light into a corner of history that has long been in
darkness.—Boston Globe
Brodell has created a frank, compelling, sensitive, and celebratory
compendium of gender-role pioneers, telling the stories and shining
light into a corner of history that has long been in
darkness.—Boston Globe
Butch Heroes is beautifully designed.—PopMatters
These stories reveal the lives of gender non-conforming individuals
from many eras in history who stayed true to themselves despite
living under the narrowly defined rules and roles governing gender
in their particular culture.—The Gay & Lesbian Review
A splendid and insightful collection.—Lavender
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