Artist Spotlight: Ria Brodell’s “Butch Heroes”
Taking the Catholic prayer card where it has never gone before.
Hey NYC LGBTQ Artists, Submit Your Stuff To “Love Out Loud” Group Show
Vanessa’s Team Pick: An open call for LGBT artists, photographers, and sculptors in the New York City metropolitan area.
Drinks, Debauchery, and Oh Yeah, Art: A Queer Goes To Art Basel
“Rachel Maddow is actually really sweet in person. Like, really really sweet.”
Difficult Love: Watch Zanele Muholi’s Powerful Documentary on the South African LGBTQ Experience
Anyone who is interested in intersectionality, anti-colonialism, and just regular rattling of the cage of mainstream norms, this is for you.
Queer Artist Lizz Andronaco Wants You (To Paint!)
Jamie’s Team Pick: “Her paintings capture queer sexuality in an honest, sensual way I find both striking and refreshing.”
On Gender, Girlhood, and Norman Rockwell
A decade before Rosie, Rockwell was painting the girls who were destined to become riveters.
Sophia Wallace Wants The World To Get Cliterate
Vanessa’s Team Pick: Sophia Wallace believes “the world is illiterate when it comes to women’s bodies” but she’s decided it’s time for us all to get Cliterate.
Stories from the Subway: Visit the Underground New York Public Library
If you like books and street photography, UNYPL is going to be your new happy place.
It’s Time To Add Your Queer Voice To The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project is “a traveling library created by thousands of people from across the globe,” and I think you should sign up to participate.
TESTIMONY Exhibition Gets Born, Tells The Story Of Being Young And Queer
Were we ever so young? “Testimony” is here to tell us we were (and it was actually kind of okay.)
Queer Couchsurfing Through Europe: A Photography Book You Can Help Fund
Queer photographers Yael Malkas and Cait Oppermann are going backpacking through Europe and making a queer photography book out of it. Help fund queer art!
Alexa Meade Turns Realism On Its Head
Laura’s Team Pick: This stuff takes that whole “life imitates art” thing to the next level.
“A Girl And Her Room” In Four Parts
“This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world.”
15 Ways Vice’s Period Photo Set Could’ve Been Even Better
“12. Girls plus the chairs they were just sitting in.”
BLOOM: 28,000 Flowers That Will Move You, Even Now
Carmen’s Team Pick: “Reading about the exhibit made me wish, more than anything, that I had been able to stand in those spaces with those flowers and feel like a part of a sweet and gentle goodbye.”
Get These Playing Cards, Support Feminist Artists & Musicians
Alex’s Team Pick: I’d like to bring your attention to a project that you may want to support the existence of — Feminist Playing Cards! The deck will feature custom illustrations of 52 feminist musicians drawn by 14 feminist artists.
Art Attack!: Ariel Schrag Relives High School So You Don’t Have To
Schrag captures the anxiety of queer adolescence, will make your heart break, make you cry.
Art Attack! Spotlight: Sadie Lee Demands That You Look
Lesbian art or lesbian artist? Either way, Sadie Lee leaves a mark.
Artist Attack! Spotlight: Laura Doughtie Makes Art From Moments of Failure
“Embracing failure. Obsessive thoughts. Banal repetition of actions. For me they can be both very meditative and calming or crazed and overwhelming. Intensely intimate.”
Artists Attack! Ten Lesbian Photographers You Should Know (About)
From Catherine Opie to Cass Bird to Zanele Muholi, here are ten queer women with vision and talent changing the heteronormative face of contemporary photography.