“If you’ve been acculturated to believe that you have certain obligations - familial, social, human - if multitasking has been your forte and that’s what’s been praised and rewarded, where do you find the single-mindedness, the selfishness to do something like art?” — via Interior Lives - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
In late 2011, I traveled across the United States to Southern gay bars, isolated vegan communes, midwestern universities, community centers, and academic queer conferences with the goal of making portraits.
via Radical Transgenderism - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“We have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products… It can be counterproductive both to the literary enterprise and to people’s reading, because it can set up barriers. Readers may think, ‘Oh, I’m a straight man from Atlanta and I’m white, so I won’t enjoy that book because it’s by a gay black woman in Brooklyn.’” — via A Question of Faith- Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
In the children’s books there are inanimate objects that come to life, speaking statues, rings and words of power, talismans and amulets, but most of all there are doors
via The Faraway Nearby - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“In the pit of my stomach was a rock, pressing and pressing. I saw my death standing by the side of the road, among the sick trees.” — via The Hunger Bride- Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“Prehistoric artisans upon these plains were spinning wool and plaiting it into mats as early as seven thousand years ago. Since then, people here have been born on carpets, prayed on them, slept on them, draped their tombs with them.” — via Thawra’s Loom - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“The worst thing we can think of, we’ve done.” — via Blasphemy- Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“The guava season is getting ready to end so now we prowl Budapest like we’re hunting animals. We carefully comb and comb the streets, eyes trained on the trees so hard our necks could strain.” — via Blak Power - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Propelled by questions about my own gender identity, I photographed those who shared my desire to live in the androgynous space between genders.
via Radical Transgenderism - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics