A Women’s Basketball Fashion Archive: PDX

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 info@theblackgallerypdx.com for group visits and scheduled tours.

www.awomensbasketballfashionarchive.com / www.dontshootpdx.org

Don’t Shoot Portland / The BLACK Gallery
Don’t Shoot Portland 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. The BLACK Gallery powered by DSPDX is an extension of this programming, centering art as activism to showcase underrepresented artists. @dontshootpdx @theblackgallerypdx