Katherine Diaz, our correspondent from Columbia, had an artist as a social media friend. She became aware of a drawing club at a local university that used models from the LGBTI community in Bogota. Then she learned that the drawing club was the brainchild of her social media artist friend. It wasn’t too long before she found herself modeling for the club’s artists. She blogs and vlogs about that experience today.
Is it good to be seated at the popular girls’ table? Groucho Marx said he wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would accept him as a member. Being out in the open and popular could dim the glamor that shown so strong as part of the underground. Even a cool club get’s boring when the “bridge and tunnel” crowd shows up. This year Southern Comfort has moved from Atlanta to Florida. Will Florida be too “bridge and tunnel”? Ch, ch, ch, changes.
Sophie Lynne loves art and literature, and movies with a message. She’s a big fan of Shakespeare. What’s that got to do with being transgendered? Sophie finds that it has everything to do with being transgendered. And today she explains the connection in What’s a Meta For?
It’s art! It’s fashion! It’s both and it’s personified in The Artist D. D is an artist, a talk show host, a radio host, photographer, and a simple housewife. Scratch that. She’s not a housewife and there’s nothing simple about her. Artistic though, that’s another story. This month she takes on fashion and art. I bet D wins.
