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Category Archives: Art + Comics
We’re Obsessed With: Ambivalently Yours
Oh to be a teen in the age of Tumblr. Pretty-on-pink drawings by anonymous artist Ambivalently Yours thoroughly soothe and vindicate my inner teenage girl with reminders that it’s more than okay to be sensitive, emotional, complicated, and unabashedly “girly.” Ambivalently says, “I want my art to be about all of us boldly undecided girls.” Here are a few of my favorites:
Filed under Art + Comics, Everything Else
You Could Be There: Erin Markey’s Deleted Scenes from Fun Home
Photo by: Amos Mac
Erin Markey is a New York-based performance artist, writer, comedian, actress, musician and all-around inspiration. I flipped out so hard when I heard that she was performing something called Deleted Scenes from Fun Home that she had to tell me to cool my jets. (You’ll see.) This week, in the middle of doing a thousand different things including prepping for this show, Erin took the time to answer a few questions.
Cathy de la Cruz: When and how did you come up with the idea for Deleted Scenes from Fun Home?
Erin Markey: A couple of months ago I accidentally became pretty obsessed with the Fun Home score, which is not generally how I behave with most Broadway scores. I was most personally scandalized by “I’m Changing My Major to Joan” and I played it at really humiliating volume levels in a car with the windows open (passenger seat). I couldn’t stop. I felt compulsively drawn in and for largely unnameable or unknowable reasons, I was activated in a strange way that I had no control over.
Filed under Art + Comics, Everything Else, Interviews, We Were There
FUNNY FEMINISM #1: Somewhere Between Skepticism and Enchantment – The Comedy of Babe Parker
A new monthly column, Funny Feminism features conversations with feminist-identifying artists who use humor in their creative work.
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“Horror movies make me glad
I’m a non-homeowner
I got rid of my dolls
I left my Prom early.”
–Babe Parker via Twitter
Babe Parker met me on a street corner in New York City on a fall Friday night. She met me outside because she didn’t think I would be able to find her place amongst her neighborhood’s hyphenated addresses and besides, she’s “squatting in a Verizon store anyway,” the 29-year-old Texan native joked. Babe, like myself, grew up in a conservative town in Texas before moving to Los Angeles, where she was working as an actress before relocating to the East Coast. Continue reading
Filed under Art + Comics, Everything Else, Funny Feminism
