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Vanessa Stovall

Vanessa Stovall engages with ancient mythology, focusing on hair, music, and synesthetics across her scholarship and artwork (the latter of which she often publishes under the moniker “v ness”). She edits the alternative classics publication Corona Borealis and can be found across the digital landscape @theoctopiehole. icon

On Dressing Down Myth

By Vanessa Stovall

“I research specific instances of Black artists who strip themselves out of mythologized dressings around race, sexuality, and gender.”

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