This thesis project seeks to explore the erotic image-making of (queer) women and femmes as a means of challenging current established understandings of sexual desire and cisheteropatriarchal sexual scripting. Drawing on bell hooks’ concept of the oppositional gaze and Audre Lorde’s theory on the erotic as power, I suggest ways of seeing these works as proclamations of power and potential roadmaps towards queer eutopic futures. Also, in order to create these worlds which are wholly divested from institutions which champion power imbalances, I probe further and suggest a framework for liberating desire from these institutions.

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