Opening Reception: A Women’s Basketball Fashion Archive At Expensify

OPENING RECEPTION:
June 12, 2026 from 7 - 9:30pm at Expensify | 401 SW 5th Avenue Portland, OR 97204

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

Lady Luck, 2024 by Hypatia Sorunke

Defunct, 2024 by Hypatia Sorunke