Women of the Cold Mountains
24 hours, 24 women, 24 photographs. As is true of nearly everywhere on earth, the women captured in this photo series not only take care of their children and families....
Now We Know We Can Reclaim the World We Want: A Conversation with Pony Zion and Benji Hart
On the evening of Friday, April 19th, 2019, at the invitation of ArtsEverywhere, Pony Zion (De’von Webster) and Benji Hart (Benji Ninja) gathered in a conference room at The New...
Vogue is Not for You: Deciding Who We Give Our Art To
This essay accompanies Benji Hart’s conversation with Pony Zion, “Now We Know We Can Reclaim the World We Want.” It was originally published on Benji Hart’s Radical Faggot blog on...
The Church of OVAH: Transcendence in the House Ballroom Scene
For centuries the Christian church has fractured time and time again when the Church did not or would not meet the needs of a community. The subsequent Christian denominations, sects,...
Live to be Legend
In February this year, Arbert Santana, my friend and collaborator, died in a hospital in New York City. I miss him. Deeply. The last time I saw Arbert alive he...
400 Years of Inequality
400 Years of Inequality is a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals calling on everyone — families, friends, communities, institutions — to plan their own solemn observance of the anniversary...
Mediating Betrayal
Recent conversations at ArtsEverywhere with artists and journalists evoke perceptions of an imminent future marked by a further eradication of spaces for constructive civil discourse and disagreement. As social media...
Imagining Future Cities in an Age of Ecological Change
The guidelines of the prompt were very simple. Stories had to be set in a city in the distant future (i.e. in or near the year 2099), be 1,000 words...
Horizontes Errantes (Wandering Horizons)
Artists: Jonathas de Andrade (Brasil), Pilar Quinteros, (Chile), David Guarnizo, (Colombia), Christian Salablanca (Costa Rica), MarĂa JosĂ© Argenzio, (Ecuador), Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, (Ecuador), AngĂ©lica Alomoto (Ecuador), Rometti Costales (Francia &...
Curse of Geography: Boriquén, Part 1
Text: Sidd Joag Video editing and camera: Karla Claudio-Betancourt Producer and director of video: Esteban Figueroa Additional footage: Saul Betancourt, Julio Fernandez A massive colonial figure made of steel and...
An Iceland Story: Artists Who Inspire Public Engagements
Folk singer, poet, and gay rights activist Hörður Torfason began his weekly demonstrations in front of the Parliament building in Reykjavik on October 11, 2008, a couple of days after...
Practices of Pleasure, Joy, and Release
Every generation believes that their struggles in the face of socio-political global upheaval are worse than that of previous eras. Is today’s creeping darkness of rising nationalism, fascist authoritarianism, and...