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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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SF Pride and Art Updates

Wow, my last post mentioned the San Francisco LGBT Pride festival & here it is again, the next year later!  Sometimes this blogging thing gets away from me:)  Speaking of the festival, I love Pride week here in SF because it’s like a holy week; Market Street is now lined with rainbow flags, there are [...]
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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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