𝗚𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 and 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘀 for 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 No. 1 (c. late 1970s)
Photography by 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀
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It wasn't a place that we felt like we belonged.
All of this beauty and energy and environment just stuck to me.
I saw thousands of Black cowboys and they were doing the Cupid Shuffle in the desert and they were cooking turkey legs. And there were Black folks dressed like traditional cowboys. There were also Black folks riding their horses in Jordans and women riding with their braids blowing behind them and their hands with long acrylic nails clutching the reins.
There are Black cowboys pretty much everywhere. I mean, there are Black cowboys here in Portland, Oregon, where I live, which I think is the last place that I would have expected to find them.
I went all the way to Oklahoma to realize that there were cowboys up the road from me who have been there for four generations ... You'd be hard pressed to find a part of America where there wasn't at least some some portion of this culture.
Up until a few years ago, I really thought that term cowboy was a joke when applied to a Black person.
But ultimately, cowboy became a shorthand for our noblest ideals.
A lot of these things our popular culture is hesitant to attribute to a Black person. So I think to have a cowboy rushing in, saving the day with a Black face just didn't jibe with the stories that Hollywood was trying to tell. I think it's erasure. I think it's at best, laziness, at worst, very intentional and malicious. But I'm excited to see that transforming before my eyes.
—Ivan McClellan
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So definitely a [just passed midnight so I’m gonna post this] type of post
Tumblr plz don’t block me….
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i hate it when i refer to a woman as a cowboy and then someone corrects me "erm actually shes a cowgirl!!" no she's not. cowboy is all genders you cannot separate the power of yeehaw
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okay but what if we had cowboys but the cowboys were VAMPIRES
1. by Oliver Odmark
2,3. by Betty Jiang
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Jason Wallenberg for Playgirl (October 1989)
Photography by Brad Hahn
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fun fact: western shirts' buttons are snaps instead of normal buttons so cowboys can more easily tear each other's clothes off without ruining them in the heat of the moment
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Still my favorite piece of art I've done this year 🔥
[prints / my other art]
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