Tin, Sin & Kinship by Dinah DiNova

A successfully funded queer Kickstarter project by Dinah DiNova, 2012. Tin, Sin & Kinship – a collection of modern day Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes celebrating queer & radical subcultures in the United States was successfully funded in December 2012. Visual artist Dinah DiNova writes about her project: “This photographic exploration has…

The Worlds of Bernice Bing

A documentary film project by Jen Banta and Lenore Chinn at the crowdfunding site Indiegogo Description of the Film Project “We need to raise $5,000, to complete a documentary about visionary painter and community activist, Bernice Bing (1936-1998), titled, The Worlds of Bernice Bing. Cal Humanities Community Story Grant and…

TED Talk by Artist iO Tillett Wright

Video published by TEDxWomen 2012 TEDxWomen’s description of the film: “Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves…

Speakers at Tate Tank

Gender Talents: A Special Address

Review of Gender Talents: A Special Address, The Tanks, Tate Modern for Feminine Moments – Text: Anna McNay / art-Corpus Panellists at The Tanks, Tate Modern. Photo by Anna McNay Gender Talents: A Special Address As part of Tate Modern’s Charming for the Revolution Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness weekend, Saturday…

Painter Romaine Brooks

Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…

Migrating Archives

Three Questions for Curator E.G. Crichton

Press release by The GLBT Historical Society & The GLBT History Museum, USA The “Migrating Archives” exhibition will feature materials from nine countries, including Belgium (left), South Africa (upper right) and Italy (lower right). Exhibition Opening: February 1, 6 – 8 p.m. Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates From Collections Around the World at The GLBT History…

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)…

Italy: QUEER INFECTION – GENDEROTICA 2013

Press release by Eye Wild Drag QUEER INFECTION GENDEROTICA 2013 queer art contaminations International Festival by Eyes Wild Drag Rome – June 2013 Queer Infection, section born during the second edition of the Festival, is an exhibit and performative laboratory open to Italian and foreign artists, working on Gender and…