Vaginal Davis: Blacktress [business card]

[Los Angeles]: Vaginal Davis, nd. 2 x 3 1/2 in. Very good. Item #10609

The business card of the Black punk musician, drag performer,
artist, and zinester Vaginal Davis.

Davis, a foundational figure in the 1990s queercore scene, was born intersex at a time when doctors assigned birth through surgical intervention in cases like hers. But Davis’s mother refused to let doctors operate. She grew up with “male” on her birth certificate, but her mother and four sisters referred to her by female pronouns. She has said that she was conceived in a single illicit encounter between her then-45-year-old Black mother and her then-21-year-old Mexican American father under a table at a Ray Charles concert at the Hollywood Palladium in the early 1960s. Consistently challenging the concepts of identity, performance, and authorship, she took her name as an ode to Angela Davis.

Price: $150.00