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was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, obscure for decades. Cahun’s shape-shifting, gender-bending, “self” portraits—made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (née Suzanne Malherbe, aka l’autre moi, “the other me”)—feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the “I.” These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art—and a life—that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination.