Rebirth Garments: Fashion for Every Body
Rebirth Garments is a Chicago-based line that focuses on wearable pieces for customers who fall under the QueerCrip umbrella. Custom-designed for any ability, sexuality, size, and color, Rebirth is a...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: An Interview with Claire Arctander
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For the first...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: An Interview with Lucy Stoole
Intimate Justice looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. Lucy Stoole is an art star....
View ArticleIntimate Justice: An Interview with Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: An Interview with Emma Alamo
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: An Interview with Shawné Michaelain Holloway
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleIntimate Justice : David Nasca
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: Lauren Steinberg
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleFront-woman: A Look at Fran
I first saw Maria Jacobson from Fran play over the summer at The Hideout. Her voice, which I had previously only heard on Bandcamp, was atmospheric. It was natural. Her lyrics, empathetic and...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: Derrick Woods-Morrow
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: Liz McCarthy
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleNew Nepotism and What it Means to Curate Friends
Since I began writing about art in 2014, I’ve always had a personal rule that I would never interview a close friend for an article. Yet here I am, in 2018, breaking my own rule on new nepotism with...
View ArticlePreserving Celluloid Film: A Look at Archiving in Chicago
In 2011, visual artist Tacita Dean opened her exhibition “FILM” at the Tate Modern where she responded to the destruction of celluloid film. She exhibited a silent, 11 minute, 35mm looped film in the...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: GLAMHAG
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleColectivoMultipolar : Documenting Our Life
I first saw ColectivoMultipolar on the dance floor where they were photographing Rosebud, a queer party at Berlin in the Boystown neighborhood. The photographer came over to me and said, “Can I take...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: Jeanne Donegan
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleDouble Feature: Intimate Justice: Manal Kara &“Immanentizing the Eschaton”...
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleReview: I want to be pretty until I die at Baby Blue Gallery
The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. – Edna St. Vincent Millay And the artists at Baby Blue Gallery, Traci Fowler, Alex Bach, and Carmen...
View ArticleIntimate Justice: Amanda Joy Calobrisi
“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we...
View ArticleQueens Who Bathe and Queer Visibility
Andie Meadows (Miss Meadows) is a queer photographer in Chicago whose photographic project, “Queens Who Bathe” immediately pulled me in to their overarching work. New and familiar faces, elegant poses,...
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