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Dec 20, 2024 | 
them.us | Fran Tirado |James Factora |Quispe Lopez |Sarah Burke |Samantha Allen |Ana Osorno | +2 more
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
If you know anything about the legendary activist Marsha P. Johnson, chances are you’ve been touched by the work of Tourmaline. Widely recognized as our community’s preeminent Johnson scholar, the Miami-based artist has explored Johnson’s life and legacy across various mediums, including film, photography, and her own activism. Now, Tourmaline is on the precipice of her latest and most substantial offering to the historic canon — Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
If one measure of good art is its capacity to make us feel, then the best works often embody an invitation to grow. Multidisciplinary creator JJJJJerome Ellis has a term for offerings that act as olive branches to a gentler world: “gatherings.” I can assure you that what may at first brush sound like abstract art-speak takes on a more visceral quality when experienced in the flesh. Two summers ago, I had the opportunity to enter Ellis’ sonic universe of careful anticipation myself.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
Earlier this summer, queer families from around the world gathered in Provincetown, Massachusetts for a week of Pride, learning, and joy. Billed as the largest annual gathering of LGBTQ+ families, Family Week brought visitors from 33 states, as well as Australia, Denmark, France, and Mexico, to P-town, the historic gay haunt on the northern tip of Cape Cod. Organized by Family Equality, a national advocacy organization, this year’s celebration marked the 30th anniversary of the mass convening.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Wren Sanders
1:362 hours agoHere's how Ernesto may affect New EnglandWCVB • 2hStorm Team 5 is tracking Ernesto in the tropics, which was upgraded to a category 1 hurricane Wednesday morning, as its following a path toward Bermuda.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
“One of Them” is all about you. More community than column, this space is where we’ll be speaking to friends and idols, history-makers of the past and present, and those who inspire us, challenge us, and dare us to ask for more from this world. It is where we can be together. Read more here. One early spring afternoon in Los Angeles, Irene Lee opened their front-facing camera and began to yap.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
Mickalene Thomas’ recently unveiled mid-career retrospective All About Love is, in a sense, all about Sandra Bush — not only the artist’s late mother, but also her first muse. The model, affectionately known as “Mama Bush,” appears in several of the nearly 100 works that comprise the exhibition, on-view at The Broad in Los Angeles until September 29. Her alluring likeness is rendered in the triptych, Lounging, Standing, Looking.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
Jamie Diaz never stopped dreaming of freedom. Even after nearly 30 years of incarceration, the painter filled canvas after canvas with wings, fresh air, and exuberant queer expression. Now, Diaz no longer needs watercolors to envision life on the outside; just after 10:30 a.m. last Friday morning, she walked out into the Houston rain as a free woman.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Wren Sanders
Gabriel Joffe, courtesy of Greene Fort Productions, LLCJamie Diaz never stopped dreaming of freedom. Even after nearly 30 years of incarceration, the painter filled canvas after canvas with wings, fresh air, and exuberant queer expression. Now, Diaz no longer needs watercolors to envision life on the outside; just after 10:30 a.m. last Friday morning, she walked out into the Houston rain as a free woman.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
them.us | Wren Sanders
To be trans in the United States today is to live with a preternaturally high tolerance for the absurd. It was just a few years ago that conservative lawmakers in Ohio were faced with the mortal and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and chose to turn the state’s legislative focus to the “issue” of five transgender girls, out of some 400,000 high school athletes, competing in youth sports.
