California: Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices

Press release by Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative, California Queer Aesthetics Flyer Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 7 p.m. Doheny Memorial Library Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240 Admission is free. A pre-event reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in…

Jerusalem: INANNA by Liliana Kleiner

Press release by Liliana Kleiner Print from the series Inanna by Liliana Kleiner INANNA – 12.01.2012 – 09.02.2012 at Antea, a Space for Women’s Art at Kol Ha-Isha in Jerusalem “INANNA – SHE DESTROYS WHAT IS FORBIDDEN TO DESTROY. SHE CREATES WHAT IS FORBIDDEN TO CREATE” Inanna is the ancient…

Dagmar Kase: It is proud and good to be…

It is proud and good to be… by Dagmar Kase – Modified essay from forthcoming book published by thealit. frauen. kultur. labor. Also published in ETMU (The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration)-blog. Still from  Dagmar Kase’s video It is proud and good to be… “Eestlane…

The Starving Artists Collective presents: THE ARTISTS’ SOUP KITCHEN

Hi friends, I’m excited to invite you to the ARTISTS’ SOUP KITCHEN. For six Monday afternoons this winter, artists can come to the ARTISTS’ SOUP KITCHEN for a FREE hot lunch. Each week is hosted by different artists who will bring their creative practices to the Soup Kitchen. We kick…

Holiday Greetings

Dear Artists, Friends and Colleagues, Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and yours. May your dreams come true and may life bring you lots of new energy and inspiring art projects in 2012. Love & kisses, Birthe Havmoeller, editor

Christmas Wishes from Marta Kochanek

Marta writes: Merry Christmas Faith makes all things possible, Hope makes all things work, Love makes all things beautiful, May you have all the three for this Christmas. May the good times and treasures of the present Become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wish you lots of love, joy and…

WE ARE NOT JUST THE 99% – Queering the Occupy Movement

Press Release WE ARE NOT JUST THE 99%: Queering the Occupy Movement, Reimagining Resistance Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore *CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS* Ignited by the Arab Spring, uprisings in Greece and Spain, and protests in Wisconsin, Occupy Wall Street has brought corporate greed and structural inequality into the spotlight while…

L-CALENDAR 2012

April, L-CALENDAR 2012 by Cristina de la Madera Belgian photographer Cristina de la Madera publishes the L-CALENDAR with pin ups of real lesbian couples. The 2012 L-CALENDAR is sold in different shops in Europe and online in the U.S. L-CALENDAR 2012 June, L-CALENDAR 2012 by Cristina de la Madera  Related Link More…

Sea Change by Barbara Hammer

Promtional video: Sea Change Installation from Barbara Hammer on Vimeo Sea Change (a poetics of the liquid state) by filmmaker Barbara Hammer, 5 Screen Digital Installation with Surround Sound and Photographic Prints. Dimensions variable. Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010), the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the…

LAVENDER REVIEW Call For Submissions for Issue 5

Press Release Lavender Review is a biannual e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever might appeal to a lesbian readership.  The Fairy Tale issue is now live online, with work by Eleanor Lerman, Leopoldine Core & Eileen Myles, Sarah Schulman, Susan Stinson, Ali Liebegott,…

Artist Talk: Tejal Shah

Visual artist and queer activist Tejal Shah, India, talks about her art projects and her work with the Hijra community in India.

San Francisco: QWOCMAP’s Free Video Workshops For Queer Women of Color

Press release by QWOCMAP – Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project QWOCMAP – 2 FREE Video Workshops [in San Francisco, USA] Spring 2012 DEADLINE 5pm Friday January 6, 2012 These workshops are offered to: African Descent/Black, Asian/South Asian, Arab, South West Asian/North African, Pacific Islander, Chicana/Latina, Native American &…

Pride Photo Award Winner Hinda Schuman

Artist statement by Hinda Schuman All images are copyright Hinda Schuman 2011 Photo from A True Story by Hinda Schuman Artist book: A True Story by Hinda Schuman Congratulations to Hinda Schuman, USA. Five images from photographer and queer woman Hinda Schuman’s autobiographical artist book A True Story were selected…

New York: Creating A Queer Museum

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Press Release Exhibition: Creating A Queer Museum Opening Reception Tuesday, December 13 6-8 pm Come celebrate the transformation of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation into the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art as the first museum in the world dedicated to exhibiting…

DGLFF Awards Best Documentar​y to DIFFICULT LOVE

Congratulations to visual activist Zanele Muholi and co-director Peter Goldsmid! Based on the audience voting slips during the festival in the category of DOCUMENTARY, the production Difficult Love has won the audience award for BEST DOCUMENTARY at DGLFF 2011 in Durban. See The Documentary Difficult Love Online In ‘Difficult Love’ Zanele talks…