Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer, best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. In her writing she consistently referred to herself as elle (she), [5] and this article follows her practice; but she also said that her actual gender was fluid. Cahun is most well known for her androgynous appearance, which challenged the strict gender roles of her time. During World War II, Cahun was also active as a resistance worker and propagandist.