Hoodie, Wiederhoeft. Briefs, Calvin Klein. Skirt, Belle. Jewellery, Alexis Bittar. Sneakers, Tom Ford.
Characteristic Editor / Koko Ntuen
Pictures / Felipe Zapata-Valencia
CD + Styling / Phil Gomez
Magnificence Editor / Rory Alavrez
Cowl Artwork / Mikey Meza-Pérez
Hair Stylist / Isaac Davidson / Che Nieves
Styling Assistant / Alon Cameron
MUA / Anaiyah Simmons / Nyala chamberlain / Sophie Hartnett
Tomie is a boundary-pushing digital creator, dominatrix, and host of the unapologetically uncooked present Uncensored with Mx.Tomie. A grasp of transformation each on-line and in actual life, they weave digital artistry, immersive cosplay, and fearless storytelling right into a singular, mesmerizing id.
Via their work, Tomie reclaims energy in an area usually dictated by norms—difficult magnificence requirements, gender constructs, and inventive limitations. Their digital creations pulse with surrealism, horror, and excessive trend, echoing a deep love for the eerie and ethereal.
Tomie exists on the intersection of artwork, and subversion. Whether or not they’re moving into a brand new persona, crafting visually gorgeous content material, or making males squirm with pleasure, one factor is definite—Tomie is right here to disrupt, encourage, and redefine.
What drives you to maintain pushing artistic boundaries?
I’ve all the time been drawn to the rise up of pushing boundaries; whether or not that’s in myself, in my subs, or in what’s acceptable socially. Grinding up in opposition to the road of acceptability makes me really feel alive and within the digital house, there’s one thing that doesn’t but exist on the intersection of conventional intercourse work and in style tradition that I wish to uncover. There’s an urge and deep need for me to maintain experimenting and presumably uncover one thing that hasn’t been expressed totally but.
What does being an It-Lady imply to you?
I really like the time period “It Lady” because it intersects with intercourse work, as a result of the time period itself acknowledges the fixed pressure as ladies round objectification but additionally the celebrated aesthetic privilege of being “It.” I perceive It-Ladies as dichotomies: ultra-personalities but additionally nonpersons. Whenever you are an object (of need, of tradition, of projections, and many others), how do you animate?
There’s a crushing objecthood to all of it, however inside it, a deeper story about how this constructed, plastic thing-ness comes alive. It jogs my memory of those mecha scenes in Neon Genesis Evangelion the place you understand that the robotic bleeds.
Being an It-Lady and being a intercourse employee means understanding there may be an company to who I’m and my work, nevertheless it’s not a willful company in a Western sense (“I” placed on this outfit), however somewhat an artificial company as tradition performs me.
The primary time I placed on latex for a sub at my first dungeon illustrates this sense. He was a Hasidic Jewish gentleman who requested simply latex gloves, nothing else wanted to be latex, which to at the present time is exclusive. I requested him what he favored about it and he mentioned that once I put it on, he can see my pores and skin and arms extra clearly, like my soul was displaying by the shine.
Girls’s Herstory Month is all about honoring trailblazers. Who’re the ladies—fictional, historic, or private—who’ve formed your journey?
So many, however Yin Q is the one individual I all the time circle again to as being an instrumental determine in my journey. I learn her quick story in Apogee in faculty, throughout a time once I was simply happening Fetlife and experimenting like a wild baby in Chicago, and it caught with me in a deep method. I don’t simply admire her as a dominatrix, but in addition as a mom, a group pillar, and the way in which she cares.
What’s your favourite factor about being knowledgeable dominatrix?
It seems like what I’ve all the time been meant to do. I really like experiencing folks and experimenting with folks of their darkish recesses.
The intersection of digital artwork and intercourse work is altering. What’s one thing you’re excited to see change within the business, particularly for girls creators?
Many intercourse staff are artists and select this occupation as a type of intensely private artistic expression or to fund their inventive endeavors. Nonetheless, for a few years, being out as a intercourse employee meant being pigeonholed within the grownup house. There continues to be a number of stigma and assumptions related to intercourse work and this business. I felt this anxiousness deeply when transitioning to domming full time – as a girl, for many of historical past, it really is burning the boat. And it’s not nearly abandoning a civilian life, however having such an awesome marker in your id that, regardless of the complexities, folks cut back you to an idea.
I’m excited to be on the forefront of this modification in tradition the place digital artwork just isn’t solely recognizing the contributions intercourse staff have had within the artwork scene, however platforming our voices, our bodies, and imaginative and prescient in a tangible method.
How do you reclaim your house as a type of self-empowerment and storytelling?
Quite a lot of it does need to do with what I discussed above round animation. There’s the easy reply – there’s nothing extra empowering than with the ability to not solely be financially unbiased however thrive to the purpose I can take artistic dangers. My anime-inspired domme shoot was a kind of dangers.
I just lately rewatched the film Sanctuary and there’s a poignant second initially the place (spoiler alert) you understand the session was scripted. I usually discover determining the interaction between that is what the shopper, the tradition, the algorithm, and many others. desires and what I would like. It’s a candy spot the place I get to push to maximise MY imaginative and prescient and emotional wishes in that dance.
Should you may ship a message to your youthful self—the Mx. Tomie earlier than all of the platforms and success—what would you inform them?
Present your face earlier haha…don’t overthink it for that lengthy.
Within the spirit of Girls’s Herstory Month, what’s one legacy you hope to depart behind in your artistic world?
I hope my bizarre, playful, wacky, sadistic, sophisticated model of what a dominatrix may appear like opens up the world for different dominant ladies to totally be themselves in no matter their model of energy seems to be like.
Costume, Frankie Julia. Gloves and footwear, Abilities personal.
