Fashioning Identity: Clothing and the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community of the Mississippi Valley | Digital Museums Canada
A tattooed arm is holding up an off-white t-shirt on a wooden hanger. The shirt has a multicoloured pattern of random, amorphous blobs resembling ink or watercolour. Black text across the front of the shirt reads

Fashioning Identity: Clothing and the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community of the Mississippi Valley

Mississippi Valley Textile Museum 2026

How do you use clothing? For millennia, different cultures, communities and individuals around the world have been using clothing in many ways; not just to cover their bodies, but as a form of expression, connection, identity, solidarity and resistance. Nine members of the Mississippi Valley’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community are sharing their wardrobes and their journeys with style. Explore how they use clothing to fashion their identities!