The Coming Out Project: Episode One
Thinker in Residence, Catherine Hernandez, begins her podcast series The Coming Out Project where LGBTQ2S folks get to re-do their coming out stories. Listen to episode 1 here.
Columns
A Queer Art Canon: Reg Vermue and Madonna’s Truth or Dare
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can be …
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Everything your caregiver wants to tell you but isn’t privileged enough to say
It has been three glorious months since I closed my home daycare and became the Artistic Director of b current performing arts. In those three months I have had some time – not a lot of time, mind you, …
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How to Parent During Pride
Last year, I posted my guide to not being an asshole during Pride. I was thrilled to know it struck a chord with so many. This year, I wanted to include the smaller, meaner types we see during our festival: …
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A Queer Art Canon: JP Larocque and Batman Returns
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can be …
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The Annual Letter from Your Mother
Mothering ourselves into being is common practice amongst us queers. Since many of us are estranged or at odds with our parents for being the people we are, the process of growth, of learning and unlearning is a precious choice …
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Youngest Rice King
Ching-Chonged by a Toddler Listen to Catherine’s podcast of this article here: There is nothing small about microagressions. This term, coined by Harvard Professor Chester Middlebrook Pierce, means the casual degradation of any socially marginalized group. The key word here …
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A Queer Art Canon: Sarah-Tai Black and Glitter
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can be …
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3 Tales from My Pussy
Listen to Catherine reading from her blog here: It is International Women’s Day on March 8th. I’m not one to have holiday thinking. I don’t give a shit if masculine folks suspend their misogyny for a whopping 24 hours. Truth …
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A Queer Art Canon: Anthony Johnston and Who’s the Boss?
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can be …