In the dust of Texas, Rodeo is changing. As its popularity diminishes, a new generation of girls brought up around the sport have traded their fandom and femininity for participation.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ILONA SZWARC
Rodeo, the work of cattle herders and ranchers turned sport, has always been a man’s world. But Polish American photographer, Ilona Szwarc’s series “Rodeo Girls” documents a generation of young women uncomplicatedly redrawing the boundaries of their femininity and disrupting the traditional gender roles that have always governed their sport and the community around it.
Enjoying their strength and control over the animals they handle, the girls dress for their work in the same unassuming plaid shirts and denim jeans of their fathers and brothers. Meanwhile, the traditional ideas of femininity that they have been brought up with still find expression in the close attention and grooming that goes into their animals. Together, these elements make up a new femininity – as confused as it is liberating for these rodeo girls.
In the dust of Texas, Rodeo is changing. As its popularity diminishes, a new generation of girls brought up around the sport have traded their fandom and femininity for participation.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ILONA SZWARC
Rodeo, the work of cattle herders and ranchers turned sport, has always been a man’s world. But Polish American photographer, Ilona Szwarc’s series “Rodeo Girls” documents a generation of young women uncomplicatedly redrawing the boundaries of their femininity and disrupting the traditional gender roles that have always governed their sport and the community around it.
Enjoying their strength and control over the animals they handle, the girls dress for their work in the same unassuming plaid shirts and denim jeans of their fathers and brothers. Meanwhile, the traditional ideas of femininity that they have been brought up with still find expression in the close attention and grooming that goes into their animals. Together, these elements make up a new femininity – as confused as it is liberating for these rodeo girls.
In the dust of Texas, Rodeo is changing. As its popularity diminishes, a new generation of girls brought up around the sport have traded their fandom and femininity for participation.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ILONA SZWARC
Rodeo, the work of cattle herders and ranchers turned sport, has always been a man’s world. But Polish American photographer, Ilona Szwarc’s series “Rodeo Girls” documents a generation of young women uncomplicatedly redrawing the boundaries of their femininity and disrupting the traditional gender roles that have always governed their sport and the community around it.
Enjoying their strength and control over the animals they handle, the girls dress for their work in the same unassuming plaid shirts and denim jeans of their fathers and brothers. Meanwhile, the traditional ideas of femininity that they have been brought up with still find expression in the close attention and grooming that goes into their animals. Together, these elements make up a new femininity – as confused as it is liberating for these rodeo girls.
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is a large format international biannual magazine from Istanbul. Focusing on arts, culture and society, each issue tackles various universal subjects within a distinct theme.
Address
Mim Kemal Öke Cad. No.6 D.6 Nişantaşı, Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey
+90 212 232 4288
contact@212magazine.com
POSITOPIA
17
OUT NOW
is a large format international biannual magazine from Istanbul. Focusing on arts, culture and society, each issue tackles various universal subjects within a distinct theme.
Address
Mim Kemal Öke Cad. No.6 D.6 Nişantaşı, Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey
+90 212 232 4288
contact@212magazine.com