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MUNI & Stress Mapping
My original stress track created with a Garmin GPS unit while I was waiting at the Balboa Park MUNI station. It was frustrating to wait for a train that never came! This was where my idea for mapping stress began. and then I thought of this…an abstraction of female anatomy: Explorations of stress relating to [...]
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Links About the Alemany Area & Urban Farming
Alemany Farm Islais Creek – audio memories Alemany Housing Development research Project H Design proposal Urban Dictionary definition of “Alemany” Interview with Jason Mark about the farm Another urban farm, Ghost Town Farm, in Oakland
Alemany Farm & Neighborhood
Recently I visited San Francisco’s Alemany Farm. My project partner and I took two buses to get there and when we got to our drop-off point, the intersection felt like no-man’s land. Strange really, because there were townhouses behind us, freeways in front of us. Just beyond the freeways were more townhouses. To our left [...]
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Multi-Media Event at the CSC
Earlier this year I attended a dual preview night of Thank You for Being Urgent by Silas Howard and Slightly Real Confessions of a Poser by Lynnee Breedlove (both former band members of the queer/dyke punk band Tribe 8). The opening performance art piece was by Heather Acs. The show was hosted at the Center [...]
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Harvey Milk for Everyone
Since I’m a queer-identified woman who is very happily out, and because today is National Coming Out Day, I thought it most appropriate to post “Harvey Milk for Everyone,” a photo collage by Atsuko Morita. I, along with many others, was photographed for this awesome piece while parading around at this years San Francisco LGBT [...]
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Unbuttoned
THIS SUNDAY in SAN FRANCISCO!! Come see me shimmy shimmy as Lexi Lipstick in my burlesque number with Queer Girl Theatre Project! Choreography by the fabulous Amelia Mae Paradise of Diamond Daggers, who among a fabulous host of other lovely women will be headlining!! xoxo Queer Girl Theatre Project presents UNBUTTONED — taking it all [...]
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Art of Participation at SFMOMA
At the beginning of the semester, I went to the Art of Participation exhibit at the SFMOMA. It was filled with conceptual works by artists such as Lynn Hershman Leeson, John Cage and Hans Haacke. My favorite work was a video piece created by Marina Abromovic and Ulay entitled “Imponderabilia.” This piece is a single-channel [...]
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