Lesbian Lives Conference 2015

22nd Annual Lesbian Lives Conference, ‘Lesbian Feminism/s Now’ is held on February 20 – 21, 2015 and hosted by University of Brighton LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub (south England) in conjunction with Women’s Studies Centre, University College Dublin. Registration for the Lesbian Lives 2015 conference is now open! Read…

San Francisco: ‘Queer Ancestors’, a Printmaking Workshop

Excerpt from Queer Cultural Center – December Newsletter, 2014 Call for Applications December 8th, 5pm Queer Ancestors Project Free workshop exploring queer ancestors & linocut printmaking for queer and trans* artists ages 18-26 Supplies included Exhibition at SF LGBT Center Workshop taught by printmaker Katie Gilmartin Meets January 5-April 27…

The Unstraight Museum Celebrates Pride in Sweden

Press Release by The Unstraight Museum WELCOME TO AN UNSTRAIGHT PRIDE! Come celebrate an unstraight Pride together with us at The Unstraight Museum. We invite you to a talk with gay police from Russia and a talk about queering the world of museums. We also want your best advice on…

Last Bastion: A Conversation on Feminist and Queer Museum Politics

Press release via California LGBT Arts Alliance’s newsletter The Last Bastion: A Conversation on Feminist and Queer Museum Politics – Featuring: Dr. Amelia Jones and Dr. Jonathan D. Katz two of the world’s leading Queer art historians. Monday, June 30 6:30 – 9:30 PM West Hollywood Council Chambers 627 N….

Crowdfunding – Arts in the Woods

Arts in the Woods is a summer arts camp for homeless LGBTQ young adults. The program empowers young queer artists to build an inter-generational community of visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers and performers. Sunday July 13 to Friday July 18, 2014, young people ages 18-24, who have survived NYC and…

GenderBlender

GenderBlender, June 6 – Augustus 17, 2014 at MU Emmasingel 20 5611 AZ Eindhoven, Holland “Femininity, masculinity, and everything in between. With GenderBlender MU and guest curators/artists Hanneke Wetzer and Leonie Baauw are focusing on the sliding scale between 100% XX and 100 % XY chromosomes, between male and female.”…

Workshop: “A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America”

Photo Workshop “A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America” – Photo Workshop with Lenore Chinn, Bob Hsiang & James Sobredo CHSA Learning Center, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco April 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm The workshops are free and open to the public. Come learn about…

Lesbian Art at CAA in Chicago

CAA returns to Chicago in 2014 for its 102nd Annual Conference. The conference will be held at the Hilton Chicago from Wednesday, February 12 to Saturday, February 15. I have surfed the programme and will higlight a couple of lesbian art events. Committee on Women in the Arts: Always Causing…

California – doubt it / talk series

doubt it / talk series: a conversation between Josh Faught and Julia Bryan-Wilson Tues, Dec 10, 7-10 pm n/a – 4303 West St, Oakland, USA doubt it / talk series is pleased to present a conversation between 2012 seca award winning artist Josh Faught and Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of…

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk

Excperpts from the newsletter ‘Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends’ and www.fitnyc.edu Exhibition A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk September 13, 2013 -January 4, 2014 Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave at 27th St, New York, USA A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet…

GendErotica 2013 – Programme is Online Now

Press release by Eyeswilddrag.it GendErotica 2013 contamination of queer art Fem! Rome, Italy, May 31st – June 2nd at Nuovo Cinema Palazzo and at Teatro Valle Occupato The most international, dissacrating, activist edition of GendErotica. Femme Power and Queer Femininity are the tools that women have for the appropriatation of…

Workshop by Dorothée Smith at Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie

Workshop: Dorothée Smith – The invisible side of things From 8 to 13 July 2013, at the international photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie in the south of France. The workshop is bilingual English – French. Participants will experiment with different technical and aesthetic decisions each day in order to…

Civil Partnership event at the Tate, 2012

Curating Feminist and Queer Art The above video presents the highlights of the Civil Partnership Event at Tate in 2012. The symposium was held as part of the Leverhulme funded project Transnational perspectives on women’s art, feminism and curating. “Reflecting on the politics and practices of queer and feminist art…

London: Films by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

Press photo: Charming for the Revolution, courtesy of Tate Modern and the artists. Three films by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz Friday 1 February 2013, 19.00 The Tanks at Tate Modern, London, UK The work of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz reflects on the interplay of sexuality, sexual perversions and…

Lesbian Lives Conference 2013

Lesbian Lives Conference 2013 15th Feb 2013 – 16th Feb 2013 Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, UK 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference, ‘The Modern Lesbian’ Held on 15-16 February 2013 and hosted by University of Brighton LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub in conjunction with Women’s Studies Centre, University College Dublin….

First Italian Femme Conference

Press release FIRST ITALIAN FEMME CONFERENCE Rome, June 2013 GENDEROTICA 2013: Contaminations of Queer Art International Festival Hosted by Eyes Wild Drag Call for Abstracts Femme is a term used by many in the queer community who identify as “feminine.” Defining unequivocally who is femme (or fem in Italian usage)…

Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West

The international conference Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West /Représentation du Corps Noir en Occident is being held in Paris, France January 17 – 20, 2013. Black Portraiture[s] explores the ideas of the production and skill of self-representation, desire, and the exchange of the gaze from the 19th…

Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness

Press Release Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness 1 – 3 February 2013 The Tanks, Tate Modern, London Presented in collaboration with Electra Full programme details are available from http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/film To mark to start of LGBT month next February, Tate presents a series of events…