Trina Rose
21, Semiotics Student/Go-Go Dancer for Unisex Salon at the Delancey/Multimedia Artist/Filmmaker/Performer

Emily Cain
20, Film Student/Photographer/Costume Designer

Brooklyn, NY & New York, NY
One day in 2005, Trina was running late to the set of Shortbus, clad in a red beaded dress with feathers. Costume designer Emily, who lived in the same building as Trina, noticed Trina outside and stopped her to find out “who she was, where she was heading and where on earth did she get that fabulous dress!” Shortly afterward, Emily made Trina the primary subject of lots of her photography and faster than you can say “darkroom” their relationship was developing. Today they create clothes together so they can “use our bodies as mediums in our socially-conscious art project to challenge misogyny and re-conceptualize the relationship between sex, gender and the cultural definitions of beauty.” They add, “We are both feminists who work to challenge sexism, ableism, heightism and other oppressive systems through our artwork and other modes of representation. Our creativity is the glue that holds us together.”