PITS/MUCAS/HAIRY REMOVAL

These video works were created for International Woman’s Day 2021. Opal created "Is This What You Want?", a series of videos about their experience of transphobia, classism & the gatekeeping of gender & femininity within the not-for-profit sector. These videos were premiered at Ideas of Resilience, a woman’s day exhibition. Using a staple of hair removal and a butter knife, they shave their legs and create their own vulva. the work is about rejecting approval from heteronormativity, the male gaze and the drive to be perceived as valid by "the man in your head".

The video titles are Mucas, Hairy Removal & pits