Tag Archives: Queer

An Imposing Figure: Thoughts on Activism and Commodification

by Tanya Wischerath | Aug 18, 2016

An Imposing Figure: Thoughts on Activism and Commodification

by Tanya Wischerath | Aug 18, 2016

In this personal essay, artist Tanya Wischerath reflects on the complexities of bringing activist art to a culturally objective viewership.

Artist Introspectives

Queer Secrets Exposed

by Vera Rubin | Jul 18, 2016

Artist Introspectives

Queer Secrets Exposed

by Vera Rubin | Jul 18, 2016

Artist and DJ Vera Rubin considers the nuance in finding the right kind and amount of exposure for art that originated underground.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Ben McCoy

by Ben McCoy | Jul 5, 2016

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Ben McCoy

by Ben McCoy | Jul 5, 2016

Guest editor Ben McCoy introduces the theme of our July / August issue: “Exposed,” explored with a focus on trans, queer, and feminist artists.

Affixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex | An Interview with Tiona McClodden

by Jessica Lynne | Mar 23, 2016

Affixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex | An Interview with Tiona McClodden

by Jessica Lynne | Mar 23, 2016

An interview with filmmaker Tiona McClodden about her digital project memorializing poet and activist Essex Hemphill.

Queer Berlin

Dark Art(s), Coven Berlin, and the Queer Erotic Occult

by Ali Fitzgerald | Mar 1, 2016

Queer Berlin

Dark Art(s), Coven Berlin, and the Queer Erotic Occult

by Ali Fitzgerald | Mar 1, 2016

Ali Fitzgerald investigates the emergence of mysticism and the occult in Berlin’s art scene, exploring the cyber-feminist collective Coven Berlin whose goal is to ‘conqueer’ the universe, and a new Berlin bookstore specializing in forbidden books.

New Kids on the Block

The Go! Push Pops on Future Feminisms

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Aug 18, 2014

New Kids on the Block

The Go! Push Pops on Future Feminisms

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Aug 18, 2014

Go! Push Pops—a transnational radical queer feminist performance art collective—creates “work that visually represents a future of feminism as a form of healing.”

Queer Berlin

Queer Berlin and James Franco’s “Gay Town”

by Ali Fitzgerald | Feb 28, 2013

Queer Berlin

Queer Berlin and James Franco’s “Gay Town”

by Ali Fitzgerald | Feb 28, 2013

Longtime contributor Ali Fitzgerald launches her new column “Queer Berlin” with a review of James Franco’s “maddeningly egocentric and self-congratulatory” exhibition.

Queer Past/Queer Future: In Conversation

by Aldrin Valdez | Jan 30, 2012

Queer Past/Queer Future: In Conversation

by Aldrin Valdez | Jan 30, 2012

What can the Occupy movement learn from the history of HIV/AIDS activism? Ted Kerr’s “Questions for a Revolution” offers a starting point.

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Elisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, writer, curator, and educator whose work often addresses feminist, queer, and social issues. While there is a long history of appropriation-based political critique …

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Contemporary fiber artists have a lot of baggage to handle. They have so much baggage in fact that they had to knit a bigger bag to fit everything in. Fiber …