Queer photographers challenge social norms in family-making
Queer photographers challenge social norms in family-making
In an exhibition at New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, eight artists of colour explore how ‘chosen families’ in LGBTQ+ communities can challenge conventions and create a spirit of queer kinship
Kin, 2017, by Mengwen Cao, part of the LGBTQ+ photography exhibition ’Chosen’ in New York
Who is your family? Is it the people you inherit, or the community you choose?
‘Chosen’, an exhibition at New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art coinciding with Pride Month 2021, highlights eight queer emerging artists of colour who explore how ‘chosen families’ in LGBTQ+ communities challenge the social norms and biological imperatives of heteronormative family-making.
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Controversial opinion, perhaps, but someone needs to break it to Virginia Woolf: You don t need a room of one s own to achieve work-from-home success; you just need a desk. And while we d all love to enjoy the spacial luxury she did, even those with a spare room for studying, emailing, taking meetings, getting creative, or strategizing know that the real key to productivity is having a surface space to work on (i.e. a desk). If you have to make do with working in an unused bedroom or living room corner or you re trying to figure out how to make your eat-in kitchen or dining room moonlight as an office you re in luck. We scoured the best designer portfolios to come up with 15 DIY desk and home office ideas that will allow you to turn any room into an ace workspace. From clever repurposing ideas to easy DIY tips, the makeshift desks ahead get the job done.
Above: A photograph by Vanessa Charlot from TRNK’s “Resistance::Resilience” exhibition.
This Black History Month, TRNK founder Tariq Dixon wanted to use his platform to directly address the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020 and to imagine a way that he, as a Black retailer and the head of a design studio, could affect change. The result is the latest installment of the TRNK Editions art series, “Resistance::Resilience,” a collection of photographic and mixed-media works that aim to contextualize the history of Black activism in the United States.
The exhibition brings together diverse perspectives on protest and its implications for the Black American experience from the likes of Amandla Baraka, Gregory Prescott, and Quan Brinson; the works are available framed and unframed, starting at $150 each, with 25 percent of sales throughout the year benefiting the Black Youth Project 100, a member-based organization of Black youth activists. We spoke with Dixon about th
ZZ Driggs Fights Fast Furniture With a Direct-to-Consumer Branch
December 18, 2020
The Angle armchair by TRNK s Tariq Dixon.
In the U.S. alone, nearly 10 million pounds of furniture waste ends up in landfills annually. The biggest culprit is what creative entrepreneur Whitney Falk calls “fast furniture”: cheaply made products that can’t be recycled due to the resins and glues used in their construction. To help mitigate this issue, Falk founded ZZ Driggs, a distributor of heirloom-quality furniture and a rental outlet that recently launched a direct-to-consumer arm after six years serving the B2B market. Products are made by ZZ’s partner manufacturers, all of whom meet the company’s stringent sustainability and ethics standards. Yvonne Mouser’s Double Bucket bench is handmade of solid ash by Amish artisans in Pennsylvania. Forrest Lewinger of Workaday Handmade offers up Milking, a striped ceramic stool crafted in his Brooklyn, New York, studio, while Los Angeles desig