A Women's Basketball Fashion Archive: A Liberated Archives Exhibition
About this Event
Art & education nonprofit Don't Shoot Portlands' latest Liberated Archives exhibition launches the first ever archive of women’s basketball fashion with art inspired by The Fitted W, a published work by Hypatia Sorunke. A Women’s Basketball Fashion Archive is the first exhibition of the photobook that showcases Sorunkes' travels from coast to coast documenting 50+ WNBA games in 12 different cities during the historic 2024 Season.
This is the largest fine arts project undertaken to archive the professional women’s basketball space. It is a direct and unique response to fill the narrative gaps in the history of women’s sports. While focusing on mapping black queer migration patterns, Sorunke uncovered the lack of documentation around the transitive and contemporary industry of professional women’s basketball. Working with a point and shoot film camera, an instant polaroid, and their LGBTQIA+ community, Sorunke worked to capture the importance of safeguarding women’s sports as a space where Black, Queer, and Transgendered individuals can exist and dream in. The future success of women’s sports relies on the ability to build a community where everyone can be themselves and see themselves in it, marking the project as a tribute to understanding the necessity and impact of queered relational aesthetics in innovating self-expression in the global cultural landscape of women’s sports.
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A Womens’ Basketball Fashion Archive
On view at at Expensify from June 12 - August 28, 2026
Please email [email protected] for guided tours and visits outside of public event hours.
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