In the early decades of the twentieth century, ideas around gender types became the subject of much fascination. Representations of queerness and same-sex desire flourished, with artists using their own image to assert nuanced identities that didn’t fit into society’s rigid binary gender categories. Shaving their heads and wearing trouser suits, some women artists would also go on to change their names to masculine or gender-nonconforming ones, signalling the identity they had chosen for themselves. Poets Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley took the single name of Michael Field; Marjorie Moss
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