The home team, although similar in student population, came out to play with only one sub one sub . That silenced us all. They are more commonly dressed in skirts and matching panties than in gym suits. We wonder at societies where clitorectomies are revered. Here we accept surgery to augment the breasts, slit them and slide silicon packets in them.
Young women starve themselves literally to flatten their stomachs and thin their thighs.
Our clothing girdles our bottoms and bulges our breasts. In our dance in the street we frill the breasts and split legs. I am beginning through Julia's photographs to feel the foreigner within me, too. Julia Marsalek Dawson is a photographer living in Dallas, Texas. She received her B.F.A and M.F.A degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Russell Lee and Garry Winogrand.