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Photography & Oral History Project – Seeking Participants

The note below is from my Facebook & Craigslist ad seeking more participants for my latest project.  My goal is to create an ongoing series of portraits and oral histories – exploring gender, body image/size, sexuality and race – to be shown in a gallery and web space.  I am so very excited about this [...]
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Locative Media Artists

During this spring I have been drawn to ways that the human body and human emotions can be explored using locative media. My initial thoughts were that this mapping form of art would be particularly useful when I begin working with queer community in the Dominican Republic, but I was having trouble envisioning the scope [...]
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New Blog: Sexuality & Gender

I’m starting over. Well, more like reshaping. This recession has helped me to strip down to my barest essentials. It’s been sucky and it’s been a blessing. So, I’m starting this new blog to get to my point and share. Exploring sexuality and gender identity personally, academically and artistically has been my main interest for [...]
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LGBTTIQQGFPSUA & LGBFPSUTGTIQQA Pride Flags – A Jam of Sexual Culture

The LGBTTIQQGFPSUA & LGBFPSUTGTIQQA flags above are my responses to the Culture Jamming assignment. For those who need some clarification on the acronym within the flag, the letters stand for: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, GenderQueer, Fluid, Pansexual, Straight, Unlabeled, Allies. The top flag begins with LGBT just to be familiar and [...]
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