The Original Gender Criticals - Gender queers and people of color – among others – played a major part in First Wave Feminism. And while many of the people pictured here no doubt held views we would now find antiquated, they understood and experienced their gender within an intersectional position that TERFs both explicitly and implicitly reject. These were the OG GCs.
Millipedes Make Me Hard - I love to play with gender expectations in my work.
So Fucking Beautiful! An obvious play on the classic monster movie theme.
Wannabe Martyr - when you call for a modern day genocide, having tomato juice poured over you is really not the same as being stoned.
Stupid Prizes - Internalized colonization has caused a cultural dysfunction in many indigenous communities, including my own.
Cancelled - People of unimaginable wealth who use their power and privilege to target marginalized groups should not whine that they are being "cancelled" when they're really just being critiqued.
My first bug box, featuring my "Good Big Girl" - a Spiny Leaf Insect, or Extatosoma tiaratum.
"Release the Queers", 2024 I'm fascinated by the nightmare scenarios conservatives dream up. Especially when they seem pretty awesome to me.
I painted Rabbit as a warrior in 18th century style Cherokee clothing with transgender flag colors for Pride 2024.
Two Spirit Jingle Dance Jingle Dancers with some Cherokee details and Two Spirit related motifs. This painting was part of the "Creating Safe Spaces through Trans Art" exhibition at the Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, October 25 - December 12, 2024.