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Sharing this for my friend Samantha, who could use a little help with hospital bills. She's lovely and a great photographer and musician.
If anyone out here can spare some part of my shortfall (about $550cdn), it would really take the hurt off me
DO NOT SEND ME MONEY IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT, ONLY WHAT YOU CAN.
Yes it's hypocrisy to give money away that I can't afford and then say that
But in my defense, I'm really bad at counting 😭
DO NOT SEND ME MONEY IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT, ONLY WHAT YOU CAN.
Yes it's hypocrisy to give money away that I can't afford and then say that
But in my defense, I'm really bad at counting 😭
September 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Sharing this for my friend Samantha, who could use a little help with hospital bills. She's lovely and a great photographer and musician.
In honor of Canada Day, reposting the article I'm most proud of. hyperallergic.com/816617/the-c...
The Comedians Who Helped Define Generation X
In the early ’90s, the Kids in the Hall transgressed boundaries of propriety, gender, sexuality, even species as an alternative to binary thinking.
hyperallergic.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In honor of Canada Day, reposting the article I'm most proud of. hyperallergic.com/816617/the-c...
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The Victorian era photographer Alice Austen was no progressive lesbian hero, but her images offer tantalizing glimpses of intimacies among women at a time when only a tiny number of them were behind the camera, and even fewer offered anything that could be described today as a lesbian gaze.
Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze
Her intimate photographs of women include humor and playfulness, and speak to her closeness to her subjects.
hyperallergic.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Victorian era photographer Alice Austen was no progressive lesbian hero, but her images offer tantalizing glimpses of intimacies among women at a time when only a tiny number of them were behind the camera, and even fewer offered anything that could be described today as a lesbian gaze.
And the wonderful, talented, generous Holly Hughes
hyperallergic.com/924089/holly...
hyperallergic.com/924089/holly...
Holly Hughes’s Politics of Pleasure
The veteran performance artist spoke with Hyperallergic about camp, queerness, anti-porn discourse, and nurturing feminist community across generations.
hyperallergic.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And the wonderful, talented, generous Holly Hughes
hyperallergic.com/924089/holly...
hyperallergic.com/924089/holly...
Posting a couple of my favorite pieces from Hyperallergic's 2024 Pride Month interview series, and maybe a few other Pride-related articles I love.
hyperallergic.com/926964/kate-...
hyperallergic.com/926964/kate-...
Kate Bornstein's Life Through Four Dimensions of Gender
A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.
hyperallergic.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Posting a couple of my favorite pieces from Hyperallergic's 2024 Pride Month interview series, and maybe a few other Pride-related articles I love.
hyperallergic.com/926964/kate-...
hyperallergic.com/926964/kate-...
Long before I understood the complexity of gender identity, I dreamed of playing guitar and looking like the "blonde woman." Happy Pride Month to anyone who comes across this.
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Long before I understood the complexity of gender identity, I dreamed of playing guitar and looking like the "blonde woman." Happy Pride Month to anyone who comes across this.
Jim Shaw's Drawings at Gagosian ends this weekend. The lede image is censored here, so go see the show in person.
Some of Jim Shaw’s iconography might seem random at first, but the more you connect the dots, the more the insidious and, ultimately, catastrophic work of the US government, law enforcement, and military come to the fore.
Jim Shaw Peels Back American Pop Culture’s Facade
The more you connect the dots in his work, the more the insidious and catastrophic work of the US government, law enforcement, and military come to the fore.
hyperallergic.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Jim Shaw's Drawings at Gagosian ends this weekend. The lede image is censored here, so go see the show in person.
A bunch of metalheads got a fiercely left-wing, antifascist, and pacifist speech at a Napalm Death concert last night. It was good to hear some of them cheering.
May 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A bunch of metalheads got a fiercely left-wing, antifascist, and pacifist speech at a Napalm Death concert last night. It was good to hear some of them cheering.
Alice Coltrane, Eternal Monument ends at the Hammer Museum this weekend. Read Nereya Otieno's lovely review of it and see this show about the great Alice Coltrane while you can.
Alice Coltrane’s life exemplifies living artfully in service to something unquestionably good.
Los Angeles Pays Homage to the Cool Trance of Alice Coltrane
An exhibition of the late musician and devoted spiritual leader effectively incorporates music, performance, and visual art.
hyperallergic.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Alice Coltrane, Eternal Monument ends at the Hammer Museum this weekend. Read Nereya Otieno's lovely review of it and see this show about the great Alice Coltrane while you can.
Anyone who can make it to Cincinnati should definitely see Shahzia Sikander's survey Collective Behavior at the Cincinnati Art Museum, curated by Ainsley Cameron, before it ends on May 4. www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibiti...
Cincinnati Art Museum: Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
For more than three decades, Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, Lahore, Pakistan) has been reframing South Asian visual histories through a contemporary feminist perspective.
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
April 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Anyone who can make it to Cincinnati should definitely see Shahzia Sikander's survey Collective Behavior at the Cincinnati Art Museum, curated by Ainsley Cameron, before it ends on May 4. www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibiti...
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Shahzia Sikander subverted the Indo-Persian miniature painting by redefining it through the lens of feminism. Not only does her work decenter patriarchal power, but it also addresses the nebulous status of South and West Asian women in conversations about racial identity.
Shahzia Sikander’s Transgressive Femininity
In the artist's works, a woman is at once a social subject pushing back against marginalization and a disruptive energy, a flow that transcends barriers.
hyperallergic.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Shahzia Sikander subverted the Indo-Persian miniature painting by redefining it through the lens of feminism. Not only does her work decenter patriarchal power, but it also addresses the nebulous status of South and West Asian women in conversations about racial identity.
I rarely post, but I hope people see this very meaningful show before it ends on April 5 (and read my review of it).
islaa.org/exhibitions/...
islaa.org/exhibitions/...
Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas
This exhibition, featuring the 1982 documentary Trans by Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla, provides an intimate look at a group of Venezuelan trans women’s experiences, aspirations, a...
islaa.org
March 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I rarely post, but I hope people see this very meaningful show before it ends on April 5 (and read my review of it).
islaa.org/exhibitions/...
islaa.org/exhibitions/...
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“Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas” centers Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla’s 1982 documentary about a group of trans women, or “transformistas,” who survived as sex workers in Venezuela.
The Luminous Magnetism of the Transformistas
Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla’s sumptuous 1982 film about trans sex workers in Caracas is the centerpiece of a new exhibition.
hyperallergic.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas” centers Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla’s 1982 documentary about a group of trans women, or “transformistas,” who survived as sex workers in Venezuela.
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And a semester long explosion of art making in Ann Arbor ends with Nayland Blake leading a Gender Discard Party, which they describe as part show and tell and part clothing swap, a charming, low fi but poignant subversion of the Gender Reveal party syndrome.
November 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
And a semester long explosion of art making in Ann Arbor ends with Nayland Blake leading a Gender Discard Party, which they describe as part show and tell and part clothing swap, a charming, low fi but poignant subversion of the Gender Reveal party syndrome.