“My question to myself was whether and how to be an ‘out Jew’,” the longtime curator told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Ari Moore’s Long Road From Police Officer to Buffalo Trans Icon
“If I do not share the knowledge I have, it’s all wasted when I’m gone,” the artist, educator, and activist told Hyperallergic.
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Deborah Bright’s Art Puts the Sex Back in Sexuality
“My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.
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Carrie Yamaoka Thrives Between the Cracks
“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.
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The Badass Punk Life of Kay Turner
Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker “magnificent hag.”
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Sunil Gupta’s Extended Queer South Asian Family
“Art history is essentially a bunch of stories. I thought our stories should be in there and they weren’t,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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All the Beauty and the Tenderness of Nan Goldin
“I’m not so interested in photography anymore,” Goldin told our senior editor. “That should be the headline,” he replied.
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Marlene McCarty’s Unorthodox Visions in Ballpoint Pen
The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies.
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Lola Flash Has Got Some Stories to Tell
“For years, I didn’t want acceptance from the art world. I wanted the opposite, to be honest,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Kate Bornstein’s Life Through Four Dimensions of Gender
A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.
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Weaver Roy Kady Is a Shepherd First
“That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Philip Yenawine’s Transformative Teaching
“I attribute what creativity I have to being gay,” explained the art historian and author in a conversation with Hyperallergic.