Book Talk: Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader edited by Tirza True Latimer, Thursday, 10/29/2026
6:30pm EDT – 8:30pm EDT at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York.
Category: Art Books
Posts about queer feminist art books, monographs, zines, graphic novels, etc. made by living artists and biographies about our queer feminist foremothers that have made it into our queer art history.
NB! The fact that an artist is mentioned in Feminine Moments’ bibliography it is of course no guaranty that she will be lesbian, bisexual or queer tomorrow, nor that the authors of the below books are “out and proud” in their writings…
Video (1:13): Publisher Gerhard Steidl talks about the vintage art book Jens F. (2005) by Collier Schorr.
The catalogue includes 120 museum‑quality images, essays and interviews by curators and writers, providing an in‑depth look at Opie’s innovative approach to contemporary photography.
Video (4:17): Leaf through and review of ‘On Loving Women’ (2014), a collection of stories about coming out, first love, and sexual identity by Diane Obomsawin.
Looking for queer art books in the library…
“Dreams from America” is Renée Jacobs’ biggest collection to date and is composed of 308 images taken mostly during the photographer’s years living in California from 2006-2016.
We Others. Photographer: Donna Gottschalk. Edit: Nathalie Chapuis, assisted by Camille Cibot. Texts: Hélène Giannecchini, Julie Héraut, Carla Williams. Publisher: LE BAL / Atelier EXB, 2025.
Video (0:57): Catherine Opie introduces her exhibition Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at The National Portrait Gallery in London. The show runs through 31 May 2026.
Still Dangerous! – The Harmony Hammond Reader by Harmony Hammond,
Editor: Tirza True Latimer,
Foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson,
Release date: August 25, 2026.
Video (16:15): Queer artist Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty takes us on a walk to the Ladies’ aka the Office of a Kurator where she discusses her art books.
Video (8:01): A flip through Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005–2016 (Taschen, 2017).
Video (13:07): A leaf through the book, Annie Leibovitz – Wonderland (Phaidon Press, 2021).
Video (7:25): Annie Leibovitz shares moments behind photographing some of the world’s most influential women, now published in the reissues of her book Women.
Ksenia M. Soboleva’s book project, What Happens After, Art, AIDS and Lesbian Histories is the first art-historical study to focus on art and lesbian identity during the initial two decades of the AIDS crisis in the United States.
Video (0:22): A quick leaf through Red Threads (2004) by Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon.
Video (6:08): A leaf through Zanele Muholi Exhibition Book (Tate, 2020). Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist and photographer documenting the LGBT+ community in South Africa.
Video (43:54): Miwa Messer in conversation with Annie Leibovitz about her book Women (Phaidon, 2025) which is now in two volumes.
Video (56:08): Jennifer Camper in conversation with Katie Fricas about her debut graphic novel, Checked Out (2025).
Video (9:53): MSNBC interviwes author Alison Bechdel about her graphic novel Fun Home (2006).
New Art Book;
Queer Modernism: 1900–1950
/ Queere Moderne – Queer Modernism: 1900-1950
by Susanne Gaensheimer (Editor), Isabelle Malz (Editor), Anke Kempkes (Editor). Publisher: Hirmer, 2025