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Sky Cubacub

They // Them // Theirs

Garment Maker and Performance Artist

Chicago, Illinois

A Filipinx nonbinary person throws back their head and smiles joyously. They have tan skin and wear a magenta, purple, and turquoise headpiece made of metallic scales. They're wearing a magenta and green chain link top with protruding sculptural shoulders, colorful gloves with metallic scales, and purple lipstick.

Photo by Grace DuVal.

Sky Cubacub is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx human from Chicago. Rebirth Garments is their line of wearables for the full spectrum of gender, size, and ability. Cubacub maintains the notion of Radical Visibility, a movement based on claiming our bodies and, through the use of bright colors, exuberant fabrics, and innovative designs, they refuse to assimilate and are spearheading a Queer and Disabled dress reform movement. They are the editor of the Radical Visibility Zine, a magazine for Queer and Disabled teens based off of their manifesto.

Cubacub has had over forty fashion performances and lectured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Utah, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Rebirth Garments has been featured in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Playboy, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Wussy Mag, and The New York Times. They were named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by The Chicago Tribune and are a 2019/2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow.

Donor -Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024