Artist Attack! Ivana Is a Self-Taught Force of Nature and Tattoos
A self-taught Slovakian-born tattoo artist whose surreal designs and use of colour will blow your mind.
Art Attack! Hide/Seek Tells Half the Story
This provocative and important exhibit is worth your time — even if it sorta leaves you out.
Artist Attack! LTTR Is Here to Reconstitute a New Team Under An Old Threat
“We’re getting up and on the go with no finish line and I like it.”
Art Attack: 10 Websites For Looking at Pictures All Day
I don’t wanna work, I just wanna look at art/design/photo blogs all day.
Artist Attack! Laurel Nakadate Knows What She’s Getting Herself Into
” Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.”
Artist Attack! Diane Arbus Is The Live Grenade
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
Artist Attack! Gran Fury Wants to Know When Was the Last Time You Cried
“We decided to just go bare bones and say how we felt.”
Artist Attack! Judy Chicago Invites You to the Dinner Party
Feminist artist Judy Chicago will be dining with Sojourner Truth.
Art Attack Gallery: 100 Queer Women Artists In Your Face
100 works of art by 100 queer artists to kick off Art Attack month. Representative of many medias and many nations and many brains.
“Mädchen in Uniform”: Girl-on-Girl Culture Circa 1931
It’s queer film history time! Girls In Uniform was made by lesbians in 1930s Germany. It’s about an all girls Prussian boarding school.
“Lavender Scare” Exposes The US Government’s Cold War Era Gay Witch Hunt
Maybe you’ve heard about the McCarthy-era Red Scare. But how about The Lavender Scare, “a vicious and vehement purge of homosexuals which lasted longer and ruined many more lives”?
20 Years Ago Today in Gay History: The AB101 Veto Riots Would’ve Blown Your Mind
Twenty years ago today, the queers of San Francisco set fires, broke windows and got arrested, and they did it for you.
Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn
In which five of us talk about our favorite poet ever. “Those of us who think we know / the same secrets / are silent together most of the time.”
Pure Poetry #33: Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Marisa Meltzer
“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”
Pure Poetry #32: Gertrude Stein & Mina Loy
Did you know that Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy were friends? Do you even know who Mina Loy is? I didn’t until about ~5 days ago.
Pure Poetry #31: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.
Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You
“You can’t trust lesbians. You invite them / to your party and they don’t come, / they’re too busy tending vaginal / flowers, hating football, walking their golden / and chocolate labs.”
Sarah Kay on TED
“I don’t know if I could change the world, yet, because I don’t know that much about it.”
Pure Poetry #29: Sylvia Plath is Depressing
Once upon a time I hated Sylvia Plath. Now I don’t! How did this happen? The answers lie inside this post…
Pure Poetry #28 : Dorothy Porter
You really need to know about Dorothy Porter. She was an Australian poet, an out lesbian, and basically awesome.