| When I was 18 I was…a girl, hitching across Europe with a friend, another girl, who had an old Rolliflex medium format camera. This impressed me greatly. After 6 months of high adventure, we returned to our small town on the California coast and I decided what I wanted to do with my life. I enrolled in every film, photography and philosophy course that the local community college offered and quickly made a name for myself. |
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When I was 18 I was…a girl, hitching across Europe with a friend, another girl, who had an old Rolliflex medium format camera. This impressed me greatly. After 6 months of high adventure, we returned to our small town on the California coast and I decided what I wanted to do with my life. I enrolled in every film, photography and philosophy course that the local community college offered and quickly made a name for myself. My first subjects were my family and later, when I moved north to San Francisco, the community where I lived. Thirty years later, my subjects are the same: family and community. The only difference is that my family extends far beyond the biological and there are no city limits in my community. I work with gender queers all over the world. Everything from drag kings and queens, knights and knaves, extremely camp followers and jolly sex slaves. My next book is called: Femmes Of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities, to be published by Serpent’s Tail 2008 with Ulrika Dahl.
My work is QUEER. Not "Queer as Folk" but Queer as FUCK MY ARSE, if you dare. Queer work, at its best, resists commoditization and disturbs the heteronormative fabric that we have all been wrapped in from birth. I am intersex and intersectional. As a gender variant visual artist, I access “technologies of gender” in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist, intentional mutation and intersex by design. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across. THAT is what my work is all about.
