Photo from the series Women With Weapons

  • B&W Photographic Portraits, 1992-1993

    Women with Weapons is a photo series Handelman shot in early 1990s
    San Francisco & New York City with queer sex workers and their personal weapons.

    The series was originally featured in Taste of Latex, a historically pivotal, underground community zine by activist & stripper Lily Braindrop Burana that documented the pro-sex & kink, sex worker, and body modification scenes as they were in San Francisco in the early 1990s.

Taste of Latex No. 7, 1992 (Cover)

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"

Photo from "Women With Weapons"