"You kill people and break things for a living." --Pete Hegseth, giving very eloquent instructions to military generals flown in for this momentous occasion

While I was in Atlanta for the Art Papers symposium, I also stopped in to the #AtlantaArtFair, which was different in many ways from other art fairs I’ve attended before. You can read my coverage below.

Mermaids, selkies, enormous man-eating mollusk shells, and lesbians - oh my! Had fun going down into the femme maelstrom for this one about the show currently up the Alice Austen Museum. Read it @hyperallergic.com

Read my latest dispatch below...

These photos have been making their way into the culture for a couple of decades now. There’s so much to say about them, but I shared some thoughts @hyperallergic.com - hyperallergic.com/1033022/casa...

Was great to get to spend some time this spring biking around a little bit of Brooklyn to check out water system sites with Stanley Greenberg and to visit his studio for this conversation, now up @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1032599/phot...

An embarrassment of riches! Yes, thanks to @rahnealexander.com for sending these five magnificent issues of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social cross-country so I could devour them in Seattle, hooray for Baltimore's newish alt-weekly, Black-led and controlled, and free for all, to more!💖🌠

The United States hasn’t always gone by America. That name rose to its current ubiquity only in the 20th century. It did so in response to the United States becoming an empire.

Super excited to share that my documentary film about queer and trans spaces and communities is now available to stream worldwide, with captions/subtitles in 6 languages. Excited this film keeps making its way in the world a few years after it premiered. vimeo.com/ondemand/all...

Mushrooms, a scientist who wasn’t really known in her day but managed to root herself in the field, and debating metaphors… It was inevitable that I would want to write about this fascinating little exhibit now up at the NY State Museum in Albany. Up @hyperallergic.com

BY THE WAY, YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE RESIST LIST.

Was stewing on this for a couple of weeks and decided to just write it down and share it. Just shaking my head over here…

Looking out on the world this summer with my dyke gaze… @hyperallergic.com

In which I get to write about #PhyllisBirkby #JuneJordan and some excellent contemporary art… now up @hyperallergic.com

I got such an ick walking through this show, for even more reasons than I had the word count to write about, but here are the main points up @hyperallergic.com

Worth the read…

Upcoming screening of my film in Athens, Greece. Fuck Drumpf's attempts to ban "sense of belonging" - I've now got subtitles/captions available in 6 languages. Reach out if you know of a group that might wanna screen it.

New review now up @hyperallergic.com

Loved having an excuse to bring up the Lesbian Herstory Archives and Audre Lorde in my little contribution to this…

Was invited by Dear Dave Magazine to write about the photo show “Hard Times are Fighting Times” by Alice Proujansky. Feels like an apropos moment to be thinking about the full complexity of the lives of leftist political activists across decades. deardavemagazine.com/deardaverevi...

I’ve long admired and learned from the work of the #GuerillaGirls, but looking at the current exhibition up here in NYC, I couldn’t help but wonder how these same tactics might or might not work in the moment we find ourselves in now. Read the full review @hyperallergic.com

Feels right to be wondering how to be better with each other, not just as lovers but also friends and other kinds of intimates. We need each other, now more than ever.

She wilts. She withers. No line now, no visitors at all, besides me. She starts her long rest and transmutation, maybe to bloom again years from now. What will the world be like then?

some good news for a change

OK let's figure out what we can do and then do it. At LHA I always say even if you do only one thing today, that thing will have an effect. And our communities will benefit from it and it is all important. No matter how shocked I am, or we are, we can do a thing or two or three.

A few quick glimpses from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The corpse flower hasn’t fully bloomed yet, but she’s starting. She’s taller and more undulating, petals are moving outward, the colors and spots are changing. Hard not to be a little bit in love.