Gina

Hi there, I'm Gina.

This blog serves many purposes for me -- sharing new writing & works in progress, keeping in touch with old friends, making new friends, and keeping an eye on what's happening on the interwebs. But mostly? It's where I blow off steam from graduate school and talk about which David Bowie song is the queerest. ;)

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Doing Your Dirty Work: A call for art at CSC - May 15 deadline
Submit submit submit to this, visual artist friends! Last year’s show was stellar!

sexandculture:
Doing Your Dirty Work: a sampler of contemporary art about sex
Open to Artists in the United States

“Doing Your Dirty Work” is the second annual group exhibition at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, California. We invite all artists that are at least 18 years old to submit recent artwork that deals with themes of sexuality, sexual identity and gender identity. Please do not censor yourself. Nothing is too dirty! Nothing is too perverse!

The Center for Sex and Culture Gallery aims to provide space for artwork of significant merit that addresses sexuality and sexual identity, especially outsider or minority sexual identity. Too often mainstream art spaces self-censor or are afraid of sexual content. Too often the standard of artistic merit in sexuality community spaces is disappointingly low. Erotic art exhibitions are too often heavily hetero, cis, or white centric. CSC Gallery makes bridging these divides and providing a solution to these shortcomings its mission.

Jurors: Dorian Katz, CSC Curator and Marlene Hoeber, CSC Director of Collections

Submissions are due at midnight Friday, May 15th, 2013. The show will be from Friday July 5^th through Friday, August 30^th.

To enter your work, send the following to sexandculturegallery@gmail.com:

5 images, jpegs less than 2mb each

List of images with size, media and title (in the body of your email)

Artist CV (attachment)

Statement of up to 300 words about your work. Send one statement only and not one for each of the 5 images (in the body of your email)

On the main page of http://www.sexandculture.org/ click on the green donations button on the right side of our main page to pay $15 entry fee through the option Doing Your Dirty Work. (Note that you have paid entry fee in body of your email.)

· The gallery space also serves other uses so floor space is not available. We do not have equipment to present video work, but will accept wall-mounted video work with provided equipment. Wall-mounted sculpture is also acceptable.

· In subject line of email, write “Art Submission – 2013

Deadline: 05-15-2013
Center for Sex and Culture
San Francisco, CA

Contact: Dorian Katz
email: sexandculturegallery@gmail.com
Website: http://centersexculture.org
Source: sexandculture
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spaceykate:

Anyway, while we’re all eagerly awaiting the next page of The Exile & Happy Landing Of Natalie Ríos, here’s a one-page autobiographical bit of silliness I did a couple years back as a hypothetical submission to that second issue of Fucking Trans Women that seems to have never happened.

So if you were dying to know what words to use when you get me into bed, ta da! Now you don’t even need to ask. (See how easy I make it to have hot sex with me?)

Um, and if you were wondering why Christianne’s drawing Exile and not me, I guess now you don’t need to ask that either. :P

“IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!”

Oh, sweet friend. I love you so.

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spaceykate:

krelllabs:

Exile page 1 by ~doctor-morbius

This is a work in progress, but it’s finished enough to show. Pen and ink on bristol board. I might make it color. I might not. I kinda like the black and white. This will run eleven or twelve pages when I’m done with it. It will also be VERY not safe for work.

OMG! FIRST PAGE! OMG! SO BEAUTIFUL! *dies*

I was afraid when I gave Christianne a script that covers 21 years, 4 major characters and 6 sex scenes in 10 pages she would tell me I was nuts (well, I mean I am, but) and ask me to redo it, but her talent turns out to be more than up to the challenge.

I just love all the little details she fits in to imply things about the characters that there was no possible way I was going to be able to talk about in such a short amount of space (in fact, I think panel 2 is the only place in the whole comic in which Ricardo Ríos shows up in full). For instance, the stack of untouched canvases in the corner of her father’s apartment, or the way his clothes are a little too big, like a boy playing dress-up.

Anyway! Please reblog so that everyone can see how beautiful this is because OMG am I proud to have been a part of this project.

This is incredible!!! I am so proud of you, Rachel! <3 <3 <3

Source: krelllabs
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"Awash in Bodies" opens at the Center for Sex & Culture Friday night! :)
My dear friend Jos Truitt is so talented it almost hurts. I am unbelievably proud of her for putting on this show. Come out to the Center for Sex & Culture on Friday night to see her take on The Little Mermaid as a trans fairytale. I’ve had the extreme pleasure of getting up close & personal with this work already (and even seeing some of it in progress! Being friends with a printmaker is COOL, y’all!). It is gorgeous, eerie, brave, intense, sexy, funny, and very, very smart. Not unlike the artist. ;)
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Jos Jos Jos Jos JOSSSSSSSSSS! Beautiful awesome Jos! I adore you. <3 <3 <3

occupyvday:

I don’t find heteronormativity or consumerism attractive. But I’ll keep the chocolate.

(via queerfatfemme)

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Melissa Gira Grant: Paying for it
yes! this!!!

melissa:

One of my favorite GrizzlyFetus-isms so far goes like this:

“What’s with the whining “poor women this, birth control that”? Poor people shouldn’t be fucking. Fucking, like caviar, is for rich people.”

That is, we’re not in a war on abortion, gang. We’re not in a war on women. We’re in a class…

Source: melissa
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Doing Your Dirty Work: A call for art at CSC - May 15 deadline