This brigde called my back by cherrie moraga
Laura Aguilar, Plush Pony series
Laura Aguillar, a Chicana lesbian artist who works in photography and video, has done extensive photographic work documenting the Los Angeles Latina lesbian community. One of her works, the “Plush Pony” series (1992), explicitly centers around the Plush Pony bar. The “Plush Pony” series is described this way in her biography:
Aguilar set up a makeshift studio in the back of Plush Pony and offered to photograph women alone, in couples, or in groups. The resulting series of photographs is an amazing document of working-class Chicana lesbian culture, a group whose existence is relegated to the margins of both Chicana and lesbian social formations. The “Plush Pony” series records the highly stylized bodies of the women—in particular, their Chicana configuration of butch/femme tattoos and hairstyles and their poses.
