A Women’s Basketball Fashion Archive: PDX

Schedule

Fri Jun 12 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

Location

Bank of Expensify, Southwest 5th Avenue, Portland, OR, USA | Portland, OR

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Photographer Hypatia Sorunke attended over 50 WNBA games to build an archive on self-expression. This exhibit is powered by Don’t Shoot PDX.
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A Women’s Basketball Fashion Archive: PDX

This exhibit is the continuation of the photobook A Women’s Basketball Fashion Archive: The Fitted W by photographer Hypatia Sorunke who traveled to 50+ WNBA games during the historic 2024 Season to build an archive of over 1200+ images of attendees.

Working with a point and shoot film camera, an instant polaroid, and their community of LGBTQIA+ friends, they worked to capture the importance of relentless consistency, collective effort, and unbound imagination in safeguarding women’s sports as a space where Black, Queer, and Transgendered individuals can exist and dream in. With the understanding that 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, this project is a tribute to understanding the necessity and impact of queered relational aesthics in innovating self-expression in the global cultural landscape of women’s sports.
Copies of AWBFA can be bought here: https://notesofhype.bigcartel.com

This exhibition is a collaboration of Liberated Archives for Black Lives powered by Don’t Shoot Portland. AWBFA will run from June 12th through August 28, 2026. Please email [email protected] for group visits and scheduled tours.

www.awomensbasketballfashionarchive.com / www.dontshootpdx.org


Don’t Shoot Portland / The BLACK Gallery
is an arts and education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation. Our mission is to harness the power of creative expression to inspire, educate, and mobilize communities towards equity, justice, and transformative social impact. is an extension of this programming, centering art as activism to showcase underrepresented artists. @dontshootpdx @theblackgallerypdx


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Bank of Expensify, Southwest 5th Avenue, Portland, OR, USA, United States

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