Media has often shown society that the way to show that you’re a queer woman (whether that be lesbian, bisexual, pansexual or any other label), is to dress more masculine, carry yourself a certain way or overtly wear rainbow colors. Because of this, people often have a narrow perspective of how we look and dress.

Underneath Sedrick Huckaby’s strokes of impasto in his painted portraits, layers of history lie in the expressions of each subject and the thickness of the paint itself.