Tag: Gender
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John Criscitello and Seattle Gentrification
Loving these images from John Criscitello, a queer artist responding to the gentrification and changing nature of Capitol Hill in Seattle, previously a gay enclave but invaded by ‘Tech Bros’ and ‘Woo girls’. Amazon has taken over Seattle in part, and the ‘bros’ and hen-party good-time girls have flocked to the new bars in the…
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Queer as in fuck you
In Pride Month I learned the sad story about David Olio, who was forced out of his job for playing, not reading, an Allen Ginsberg poem ‘Please Master’ to 17-18 year old college bound kids. Was this in the 1960’s? 1970’s even? No, earlier this year, in Connecticut. Several things annoy me about this from…
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Four Women – for International Women’s Day
A belated entry – I heard Nina Simone on the radio for Women’s Day, Missippi Goddam the Carnegie version which I know word for word and sang along tears in my eyes. (Notable change: in the original the line ‘You’re gonna die like flies’ – one of the strongest expressions of righteous anger I’ve heard…
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BUTCH
I love these portraits by Meg Allen from a series called BUTCH, exploring female masculinity and those “who relate to and claim the term BUTCH”. Really wonderful, and challenging the usual notions of gender and beauty since it includes those who are “bull-daggers, dykes, manly women and female husbands”, “baby butches, young studs, gender queers,…