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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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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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Lawrence King

Recently I began working on an art mapping project that would focus on a transgender issue. At first I was thinking of mapping trans deaths as the result of hate crimes, but I eventually decided to focus solely on the story of Lawrence King’s murder. The project is still in progress, but let me share [...]
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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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