"We demand dreams, claws out or velvet paws” t-shirt size large

"We demand dreams, claws out or velvet paws,” an aphorism written by Cahun, Born on October 25, 1894, queer Jewish Surrealist photographer and writer Lucy Schwob, who later adopted the name Claude Cahun, was born in Nantes, France. Cahun would later participate in Paris’ Surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, creating photographs and written work that challenged binary ideas of gender, sexuality, and the self. In a time when queer theory as it is understood today did not yet exist, Cahun’s work was largely sidelined and unacknowledged by the time of her death in 1954. However, since the 1990s, art historians, feminists, and the LGBTQ+ community have come to recognize Cahun’s body of work as a powerful and relevant examination of self-identity.