❤️Red: Life This #PrideMonth, we're sharing artworks inspired by the rainbow flag. Today we look at Red, which symbolizes Life. . “The painting is based on a legend in which Achilles’s mother, fearing her son would die if he fought in the Trojan War, entrusted him to King Lycomedes’s household, where he lived as one of the king’s daughters. When the Greeks arrived to find Achilles, they presented the daughters with gifts of jewelry and clothes but also a sword and a shield. Achilles reached for the weapons, revealing his ‘true’ identity, and off he went to war. A friend once remarked that this is ‘Achilles in drag,’ and while that’s not quite right, it suggests an enduring cultural interest in what constitutes gender and what makes us who we are. In matters of gender and sexuality, what is essential and innate? What involves a choice or performance? For me, celebrating the possibilities as we embrace the most authentic version of ourselves is one of the things that Pride Month—an...