Laurie says: My daughter Cid has been working in collaboration with the composer and musician Joan Jeanrenaud and the poet Denise Leto on a major work.  It’s called Your Body Is Not A Shark.  I saw the first section last month at Looking Left in Santa Cruz and it really knocked me out. I’m always [...]

Laurie says: I posted earlier about the international exhibition in Korea that included my work, Woman + Body curated by scholar and artist Hye-Seong Tak Lee .  The show included the work of US and Korean feminist artists and was sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of the Arts.  The exhibition was at Kepco Plaza Gallery [...]

Laurie says: I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. Over at the blog Inside, Insides, Andy Ellison of Boston University Medical School has been throwing the entire produce aisle inside a Philips 3 Tesla MRI, revealing the otherworldly realms that dwell inside common foods. Here’s but a small sampling of his many [...]

Laurie and Debbie say: A recent Italian study claims that “women with the most severe form of endometriosis happen to be unusually attractive.” The women also completed a questionnaire about their sexual history, and the results showed that women with severe endometriosis were more likely to have had sexual intercourse before age 18. This could [...]

Debbie says: This little video completely captured my imagination. Starting with an infant, it quickly shows you a wide variety of people, each one year older than the last. Once you get past the one-year-old, each one says their age (often not in English). It was filmed in Amsterdam, and here’s what the film-maker says [...]

Lynne Murray says: In A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury, author Louise Mathewson brings us small book of poems that resonate profoundly with me. The poems tell the story of reclaiming her life. She has brought back these words from a time of silence that followed a tremendous trauma caused by a serious auto [...]

Laurie says: I’m really excited that three of my photographs are in exhibitions in Korea that opened on the 13th of October. They selected the three photos I submitted – photographs of Kellen McCracken and Jerry McCracken (before and after transition) from Women En Large and Familiar Men, and my photograph a transwoman . .. [...]

Laurie says: I was really surprised Thursday when my daughter Cid emailed me that I was one of the artists in the Huffington Post’s 30 GLBT Artists And Performers To Follow. It was posted for LGBT History Month on National Coming Out Day. This is the second time my work has been featured in the [...]

Laurie and Debbie say: It’s great to have Laurie back from her long vacation, and be blogging together again! We’ll start by showcasing this trenchant book review from Tracey Ross for Racialicious. Neither of us has had the chance to read Iconic: Decoding Images of the Revolutionary Black Woman, by Lakesia Johnson, and both of [...]

Lynne Murray says: When I heard about the Minnie Mouse makeover (which also includes Daisy Duck and other characters) by Barney’s and Disney World, I couldn’t help thinking about the day I tried to fly. I was pre-school-age–too young to read, maybe five–but I could watch TV. I was watching a television commercial where children [...]

Posts

• Cid Pearlman: Your Body Is Not A Shark
• Cross-Gender Friendship, Meet Deep Cultural Bias
• Hot & Heavy: the Power and the Glitter
• Woman + Body: Korean Feminist Artists
• “God, The Human Body!”: People as Scenery