The burden of proof to prove their gender identity is not just a legal requirement but also a lived burden and struggle for sexual and gender diverse people when they seek protection from persecution.
This work is a piece of autofiction. While it draws from lived experience, the characters, events, and circumstances have been altered, condensed, or reimagined to preserve the emotional truth of the narrative rather than document factual events. This essay contains explicit sexual language and terminology specific to LGBTQ+ communities. These elements are presented in the context of the author’s personal reflections on navigating gender, sexuality, intimacy, and identity.
Touch Me Everywhere Softly Read More »
Members of a collective celebrate their diverse histories with dramatic flair, finding liberation and joy on the runway and in performances.
Sharing Complexities in Heritage and Belonging Read More »
This webinar brings together Tamar Ballard and Ibtisam Ahmed with moderator Afra Sampreety to explore how subversive art reclaims the body, desire, and selfhood in Black feminist and queer contexts. Discussing Black women’s music and queer catwalk, they center practices that do not seek permission or validation but instead boldly celebrate intimacy and pageantry. Together,
Erotic Art & Fabulous Defiance: Reclaiming the Body through Art Read More »
Queer catwalks empower the marginalised on a personal level and set the stage for performance work that carries on the fabulousness of multiply marginalised heritages.
Fabulous Fabulations: Brown Empowerment on the Queer Catwalk Read More »
Alex Aradas, an undergraduate student raised in the American South, uses photography to understand and capture the diverse Queer experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community in her region. These are a few selections from a larger series entitled The Art of Recognition.
The Art of Recognition Read More »
In the US and across the world, there is a backlash against LGBTQ+ that is a sign of an authoritarian tendency. We’ve seen this before.
Stating simply the intent to fight Anti-Black racism in queer spaces isn’t enough. Opening our minds to criticism and approaching it with curiosity rather than guilt or shame greatly increases our ability and willingness to make positive changes.
Anti-Black Racism in Queer Spaces: adapted from a zine Read More »
Webinar on the joys, challenges, and responsibilities of curating queerness in art and film in Sweden and the U.S. South.
Queering Curation: Art, Film, and the Politics of Recognition Read More »
Nowhere is curation as important as when it comes to representing criminalisation: then, an image that is fully tailored to the message conveyed rather than the realities of a complex minority identity takes over.
Curated Queerness: Between Acceptance and Criminalisation Read More »
As South Carolina’s “Don’t Say Gay” policies threaten the humanity and well-being of the LGBTQAI+ community, using the practice of art curation as a form of storytelling and advocacy, a creative response amplifies the lived experiences of those under attack.
Curation as Storytelling and Advocacy Read More »
