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Please consider attending this art show at FAIRGRINDS coffee house in Mid-City. My homegirls Sarah Sass Biscarra and Adee Roberson are having an opening for their art show, LET THE CURRENT HOLD YOU. They are queer women of color visionaries and they deserve your support. Adee was AfroPunk before the word existed. She's a musician (ex member of New Bloods) and a visual artist. Check out her art blog here: pineappleblack.blogspot.com. I'll be there too, and maybe this would make a good meeting pla… Continue

This is from a questionnaire I had to answer from BOOKLYN Artists Alliance, a book art project in Brooklyn NY. I wrote the response last year, in February 2008. It's basically about why I bother to write my zine, Shotgun Seamstress.

Shotgun Seamstress is a zine for people more or less like myself: Black, queer,
feminist, artist, musician, outsider. It is a zine primarily for Black people who
do not fit into white people's stereotypes of what a Black person should be, and who
resist our own inte… Continue