Check out the link to read more about Lee's newest project Batman: Noel, I can't wait, his work is totally insane and the talented jerk wrote it too! If you want to see more of Lee's work (and you DO!!!) Check out his blog Bruises and Black Eyes obviously he is a genius.
The Talented Cat Perez from Lesbians in San Francisco has been working hard on her
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2011 Pride Photoshow, called Stereo (based on lesbian stereotypes). I’ve photographed 15 girls twice; First photo in their stereotype of choice, and the second in their everyday look. These photos will be displayed staggered on the walls of the Lexington for Pride.
So even if you can't make the openingf on June 21st at the Lexington Club the show will be up for PRIDE 2011 so you can check it out, because really I know you will be in SF for Pride :)
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I'm reading tonight!!!! Comics available please come and laugh!!!!
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Break out your singlets, your elbow macaroni artwork and your hot glue guns. It's June. And at K'vetsh that means Unbridled Excellence.
For your visual and auditory pleasure we bring you Stevie Ann! Katie Kaapcke! Stevie Ann is the Lesbian in Chief of the Lesbian Lexicon, a new San Francisco transplant and student of Chinese medicine. Katie Kaapcke is a queer artist and comic book creator. She has shown her work at Homo a go go, Old City Art Gallery and Beatnik-Studios. Katie Kaapcke has provided poster art for Sister Spit: Next Generation 2010 and 2011, read her comic book called Poor Little Dyke Girl with Sister Spit and at Femina Potens and she has also been featured on many art and design blogs including Design for Mankind and Design Sponge. You can read more about her on her blog www.kiki.typepad.com. This Sunday, June 5th. 7:30 open mic sign-ups, 8:00 show. Always on time! Open mic people are welcome to present one piece of less than five minutes, or five minutes of a longer piece. Two pieces? No. Medleys? Check with me (Kirk can't be trusted to be firm). BUT PROBABLY NOT. The admission is $3 to $5. We are comfortable saying that is an incredible deal. You must be 18 or over to regard the dong throng inside Eros. Please feel free to dress in a tiny white towel for the show. Eros is located at 2051 Market St. at 14th St. in San Francisco. There are a couple little coolers with non-alcoholic beverages for sale, including Fresca and Muscle Milk. |
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This show is really exciting you shouldn't miss it, I'll be there and I can't wait, so many talented inspiring artists! Please try and make it out and support Queer artists!
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Opening reception on Sat 6/4 is FREE!
(SomArts is wheelchair-accessible and encourages all folks attending the opening to refrain from wearing scented products for those with chemical/fragrance sensitives) Inspired by the late 1960s utopian builders’ guide A Whole Earth Catalog, QIY: Queer It Yourself – Tools for Survival presents a forum for queer do-it-yourself culture and alternative world making. QIY is envisioned as a laboratory for creating a sustainable queer culture and demonstrating the power of self and community organizing, re-creation, speculation, and transformation. As an antidote to anti-sociality theories of queerness (that suggest queerness can only be rendered as a negation of heteronormativity), Queer It Yourself invites artists to forge their own tools for surviving the everyday challenges of contemporary queer existence. The exhibition is built around artists’ workstations, participatory spaces, hands-on training sites, maps, and user-friendly art that uses immersive and interactive experiences to demonstrate the idea of art as a tool ¾as having active agency within the totality of a meaningful lived world. The QIY curators have queered the index of the original “Whole Earth Catalog” and adapted its thoughtful and useful categories to frame our own QIY space. Land Use / Dig it (organic farming, community gardens, eco-projects, cruising sites, earthworks, recycling projects). Shelter / Sheltering (guides to urban and rural homemaking, greening your living space, creating mood lighting with energy efficient fixtures, housing collectives, polyamorous living). Craft Making / Queering it (queer arts and crafts, craft demos, how-to guides and workshops). Commerce / Selling it (selling it, experiments with capitalism, fashion collectives, sexwork, alternative book, art, and product distribution). Community / Join in (political organizing, queer community organizing, ad hoc political action committees, queer pride, gay shame, organizing your first demonstration). Nomadics / Roaming (the culture of the road, the runway, the superhighway, transnationalism, queer diasporas, queer immigrant and exile cultures). Communications / Connecting (zines, homo-core music, queer speed-dating, independent publishing, social networking, blogging, promotional strategies, writing your first press release, street art, queer graffiti). Learning / Get Schooled (community art and culture projects, health activism, continuing education, grant writing and fundraising, guides for queer survival). Style / Working it (working the runway, drag king culture, drag queen culture, fashion and make-up tips and tricks, makeover demonstrations, finding the right photographer for your head-shot). - - - With artwork by: Anthea Black, Richard Bolingbroke, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Julie Perini, Wayne Bund, Timothy Bruehl, Esra Canogullari, Liz Collins, Finley Coyl, Greg Der Ananian, DirtStar, Eric Robinson, Robin Field, Florencia Morano, Ricardo Gamboa (curator of the Youth Leadership & Engagement Project), Tammy Rae Carland, the GLBT Historical Society, Stephan Jora, Dorian Katz, Ali Liebegott, Bo Luengsuraswat, Mev Luna, Diana Martin, Million Fishes Gallery, Annie Murphy, Jeremy Novy, Jeremy Sanders, The |wör|iors, Kevin Seaman, Allison Smith, Ernesto Sopprani, The Cockettes - courtesy Rumi Missabu, Visual Aid, A’dra Wilson, Rachel Wood. QIY curatorial committee: Terri Berlier, Josh Faught, Jordy Jones, Rudy Lemcke (chair), Matt McKinnley, Pamela Peniston, and Tina Takemoto. Exhibition Coordinator: Nicki Green Exhibition Design: Matt McKinnley Special thanks to: Anthony Privatera |
This is my AMAZINGLY fashionable friend Leah, looking hot as ever for Lesbians in SF
What a BABE!!! Follow Leah's super inspiring tumblr workalook.tumblr.com and grab some of that magic!
Don't forget to check in on the vast expanse of queers in San Francisco brought to you in jaw dropping beautiful photo montage over at lesbiansinsf.tumblr.com
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Come and celebrate the opening of Take Root, a visual art show celebrating the queer tradition of turning trash into beauty and magic. Take Root is a part of Dirtstar 2011 and the National Queer Arts Festival. This show features Jamie Q, Allyson Mitchell, Gabby Miller, Lee Balan, Ector Garcia, Levon Fox, Jen Lorang, Ariel Springfield, Flo McGarrell, Sarah Biscarra-Dilley, Micah Bazant and Lewis Wallace, Dinah Dinova and James, Siobhan Flood, and Adee Roberson.
This Show is going to be complete MAGIC!!! I'm going, you should go, don't miss it because we all need more magic in our lives!
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Wednesday, June 1 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
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San Francisco Public Library - Main Branch
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6pm, Free! Koret Auditorium
CATHERINE OPIE's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Her selected solo exhibitions include shows at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Thread Waxing Space, New York; Art Pace, San Antonio; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York; Stephen Friedman, London; Barbara Gladstone, New York; Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan; Foncke Galerie, Ghent; and Ginza Art Space, Tokyo. Opie was a recipient of the United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. In September of 2008, the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened a mid-career exhibition titled, Catherine Opie: American Photographer.
JONATHAN D. KATZ, scholar of post war art and culture from the vantage point of sexuality, is an Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, and director of its Doctoral Program in Visual Studies, as well Honorary Research Faculty at the University of Manchester, UK and Guest Curator at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. An activist academic, Katz was the founding director of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University-- the first queer studies program in the Ivy League--and chair of the very first Department of Lesbian and Gay Studies in the United States, at City College of San Francisco in 1990. He co-founded the activist group Queer Nation, San Francisco, helped direct the San Francisco National Queer Arts Festival and founded the Queer Caucus of the College Art Association, the professional association of artists and art historians. Katz has curated the groundbreaking exhibition that opened in October 2010 at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery entitled Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture -- the first queer art exhibition at a national museum in US history—and has written its accompanying book.
CHINAKA HODGE is a poet and playwright. Originally from Oakland, California, Chinaka graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in May of 2006, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Writing for Film and TV at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She received co-writing credit for Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Scourge, sponsored, in part, by the Creative Work Fund, which opened in May 2005, in San Francisco. She was the Assistant Director of Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Plays, 365 Days,at its San Francisco debut in November 2006. She also co-wrote The One Drop Rule: A War Piece, which debuted in Fall 2008. Her first independently written play, Mirrors in Every Corner, commissioned by SF’s Intersection for the Arts, is a recent Rockefeller MAP Fund grantee.
PAMELA SNEED is a Boston-born, New York-based poet,performance artist, actress, activist, and teacher. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (Henry Holt, 1998) and KONG And Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009). She has held readings and performances at Center Stage at The Studio Museum, PS. 122, Creative Time @ The Brooklyn Anchorage, Exit Art, Lincoln Center Ex-Teresa in Mexico City, The ICA London, The CCA in Glasgow, Scotland, The Green Room in Manchester, England, Literatur Werkstat in Berlin. She teaches voice, performance and autobiographical writing at Long Island University.
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Ah MAZ ING! Guess what Original Plumbing #7 The GREEN issue is ready for Pre-Order, hurry up and get one!!! OP #7 Pre-Order
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I heart this comic! You should go read it HERE especially if you don't understand queerness so you don't say offensive things or ask annoying questions! Sometimes it's OK explaining this stuff but most of the time, it's frustrating, annoying and infuriating. If you are someone who doesn't understand these terms etc. and also doesn't understand why asking a queer a bunch of questions about it would be annoying even insulting...let me tell you:
Anyways this comic illustrates the basics so that people like me don't have to! Plus the artist is RAD. I'll go over the top 10 questions NOT to ask queers next.
Can you believe this??? I already entered you should too! Follow the link for details!!
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia...
And by EVERYTHING they mean eating carbs without puking them back up, the ability to pray or meditate without laughing or acting like an asshole, perhaps understanding a culture different than your own (don't kid yourself that doesn't happen), whining in new ways in a different time zone and finding more rich attractive men to fall in love with you.
What I've learned from watching eat, pray, love...
All Puking images via WE HEART IT
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God why have you forsaken us????????? Read all the details on Vegansaurus Everything is going to shit, first Little Otsu, then Modern Times is closing now Maggie Mudd's I don't even KNOW you anymore San Francisco!!!!
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I'm behind on monday comics, its been a crazy couple weeks for me, I'm even behind on sharing about that! I got a new part-time job, making comics, read with the amazing Sister Spit, got some commisions, making more comics, reading this Sunday in SF. Have massive amounts of laundry to do!!! It's all kinds of nuts but in the best way possible. So instead I bring you some inspiration a back log of my image hearts on we heart it all images via we heart it promise more soon!
yes please
aw
yummy
because it will.
droooooool
mmmmm pastels
puppy!
um i can get enough of this one
i love blood, and biting and scratching and slapping.
more pastels.......mmmmmmmmmmmm
KITTY!
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color aztec awesome!
ahhhhhh pastel bow ties!!!!!!!!!! gimmeeeee!
fluffy sugar
dream catchers
This is the cutest effing thing EVER!!!! How awesome are they??? FANS! Lit FANS!! Also they obviously rule because they picked up my comic Poor Little Dyke Girl...this makes me super happy!!!
Please go read the entire blog here because a) it's great and b) there's an edie brickell story.
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Seriously...WTF??? Fur hair extensions..........really..............sometimes I just hate people.
I've been meaning to share these photos for a couple weeks now as you will see from the calendar...I finished my room in my new place and I love it. My whole apartment is really amazing and magical but I love how my room turned out. It has been a really loooooong time since I've had my bedroom be just my bedroom. There is also an adorable little balcony off my room including the original screen door from the 40's I'm guessing. I get tons of light.
part of my wall collage.
The hat storage idea was not mine, I found the tip here however I didn't measure anything, I am not a measuring person, I eyeball everything, I just know where I want things and I put them there. I'm too impatient for measuring, luckily I have a decent eye...but I fuck shit up sometimes too.
It's funny I got this glasses display idea off of a beautiful mess too!
This blanket was an amazing gift from an amazing roommate I had for a mere 3 months, she was one of the sweetest, kindest most giving people I have met.
So I made 5 million pom poms of varying sizes for an art show these are some of the left overs, my sister has some in her room and there are some in our hallway and a hatbox full of more...yeah I got a little carried away...awesome tutorial can be found here on honestly WTF I love that blog...I mean it's called honestly WTF...its like we are soul mates.
trees and windows. This is why we call our apartment the Treehouse, also the living room is one huge long wall of windows in the trees.
The whale print is by Tara McPherson of course! Love her, love her work, it's tattooed on my body, I have 2 other prints of hers and so does my sister!
Art on the left starting from the left and moving clockwise, Vintage Disneyland Tiki Room Print from when they re-opened it and shag did a bunch of art for it, I have a pair of his prints of the jungle cruise too. By the way I'm mildly obsessed with the tiki culture of the 50's and 60's. 2) oh I LOVE this piece taco head print by John VanFleet love him love his work. and then 3) my dork original which is basically a self portrait.
i just like these colors.
artwork starting from the upper right moving counterclockwise 1) vintage hawaiian print inherited from my grandparents 2) print from the super talented Scott Barry 3) fucking amazing "sketch" of Harry Potter by Tommy Lee Edwards I love his work so much, his work is just insane! 4) cover from the first issue of our little mini comic anthology from back in the day called Nice by Lee Bermejo yes it's me at 18 holding a chainsaw...not much has changed.
collage wall again. Unicorns print by Vol. 25
The artwork in the blue frame is a little painting of my favorite Sandman character delirium by the watercolor genius Rebecca Guay it was a gift from a very good friend. I love her work. The photo is a beautiful one of my grandparents on their porch reading the paper. The brown hat hanging on the wall belonged to my grandfather. It still has his business cards in the rim.
daily reminder It's ok.
So that's my room!
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this post is amazing! Vegansaurus does it again and says it like it is! I have heard all of these 5 million times since I was 16, sometimes all of them in order, I've been mocked, harrassed, yelled at, challenged and asked WHY I don't eat meat only for them to proceed to rip me apart. I chose to not answer that question for many years, I also said it was innapropriate to discuss whilst eating. You would think that when I tell a carnivore that I don't want to discuss it because I'm tired of being attacked for my choices and answers they would let it go............nope then they just wanted to know why I was being so secretive and defensive about it.........weird. So then I started getting really irritable about it and say it's none of your business and I'm not answering questions about it. Keep in mind this was the mid to late 90's so being a veggie wasn't that mainstream yet and I lived in meat heavy conservative towns.
Luckily it's better than it used to be. People leave me alone a lot more. But I still get shit and people think it's funny............let me tell you right now IT'S NOT FUNNY. I do not antagonize meat eaters, I may give information, suggest they don't eat meat one or two days a week in disscussion, serve them amazing vegan food and discuss things not over food so why do meat eaters think it's ok to harass me? I've concluded it's meat eater guilt, massive defensiveness trying to mask it. The whole thing is really annoying.
Foodie trends are annoying. People attacking the MINORITY all the time is annoying. Meat eaters and foodies inability to take any criticism after slinging insult after insult at you is annoying. Seriously I called bacon a trend on pinterest and it was like I said no one should poop ever again! So I deleted the board which was entitled "trends that need to die". If you think that bacon everything and bacon being put into everything isn't a foodie/hipster trend you are A) in denial B) an idiot. Deal with it.
