​Exploring vanity from a lens where the assumption that beauty begets camaraderie, the femme aesthetic, gender fluidity and non-binary expression explore the intersectional spectrum of beauty via social proximity and adjacency. This pageant in exhibition form and in its programming explore the agency of a socially fluid relationship to mobility and beauty in all forms of imagining “Miss/They Camaraderie.” This pageant exhibition contextualizes the futuristic consumption of modern-day photo realism and contemporary art practice as our “beauty queens” in a dialogue with the revisualizing timelines for archival research. Miss/ They Camaraderie has much experience with being subjected to representing mysticism, realism, professionalism, gender expression, non-linear mobility, and all of general epistemology, basically, being to others, very much all the above. This pageant program is a community centered convening that crowns a real-life local participant of femme and queer camaraderie. Miss / They Camaraderie offers the best of world building with pessimism, beauty futurism, identity surrealism, and most importantly, the exchange of vanity as a shared dialogue.Building frameworks outside of what bell hooks describes as “White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy” Miss/They Camaraderie is one of many voices in their community, but of course the winner of this Pageant is a black woman.