Esther Godoy is a photographer, artist, curator, and creator—most widely recognized as the founder of Butch Is Not a Dirty Word, the world’s only editorial platform dedicated to butch identity, visibility, and voice.

A first-generation Australian and now based in the United States, Esther has been immersed in queer communities across three continents. Her lived experience spans multiple cultural landscapes, shaping a nuanced understanding of how place, lineage and social structure, influence queer identity and expression.

With over a decade of experience in artistic production and curatorial practice, Esther’s work moves beyond conventional content creation, positioning queer narratives as immersive, affective experiences rather than passive consumables.

Engaging with print publications, digital media, photography, film, and immersive events, her practice interrogates the commodification of queer culture, advocating for a reclamation of identity beyond corporate appropriation. By centering queer individuals as living archives of their own histories, Esther’s work resists the reduction of identity to a marketable aesthetic, instead asserting independent platforms as necessary spaces for authentic, un-censored self-representation and storytelling.