kusama pyjamas
Titled for Yayoi Kusama, who is the cat's pyjamas.
revolutionqueergrrrlstyle:seaponies:
Just bought this online!
I have this on my book wish list!
I have too much to read right now, so I won’t get to it for a while.
Keep us updated on what you think of it! :)
Reblog if books by sexually smart writers = your favorite thing to blow the budget on.
In an email conversation, I asked Josh about the place of queerness in contemporary craft. He wrote, “Recently, I’ve heard discussions that suggest that the site of queerness in fact, no longer resides in the body. But instead, it exists immaterially or spiritually, like a specter that has the ability to haunt culture.”
Artist is Josh Faught. Love his work with textiles on cultural memory and the popular - yet still outsider - nature of queers, feminism and the craft based arts.
OMG this image! <3 I have a print of it that I bought at the Getty that will hang proudly in my new place at the end of this year!
In the artist’s written response to the letters and demands she and the museum received, Lopez astutely wondered what it is about women’s nude bodies that seems inappropriate and sacrilegious to the men leading the protest to censor her image. (via Tikkun Magazine - Decolonizing Sexuality and Spirituality in Chicana Feminist and Queer Art)
Eeee! All time favorite, rework that christian iconography!
Class. Disability. Transphobia. Race. Body size. Surrogacy. Nationality. Biphobia. Economics. Sex work. Queer families. Misogyny. All of these issues and more comprise Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity. Edited by Jennifer Clare Burke the book contains personal essays from over fifty contributors who explore what it means to be a queer femme. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and totally new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor’s concrete notion of femmedom.
The Homofactus Press femme publication I mentioned before. I got very excited about it because it has so many new, contemporary femme writers as well as the established spoken word and activist femmes.
“Texta” is Australian for felt-tip marker and Arlene TextaQueen likes her tips felt. She spends her life as a marker superhero, exposing real women and other performers, un-dressed-up in accessories and surrounds of their own desire. Depicted in life-size line and livid color she re-con-texta-ualizes the tradition of the salon nude as she intimately uncovers the unique character of her subjects.
I can’t pick just one for Arelene Texta Queen
Her name is Ananda Nahu and her work is an explosion of color. Ananda Nahu is a Brazilian artist born in Juazeiro, a quiet city in the interior of Bahia. She grew up in Petrolina, an arid city in Pernanbuco state, separated from Juazeiro by the Sao Francisco river. This land is plagued by poverty; legacy of an unjust and racist system. She often portrays those who have been marginalized by society in her work.
