Usually find something to read in New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town." Griffin Dunne's first visit to the Museum of Sex stopped me with relevance to my current moment.
Took me back to 2008 before we left NYC. Ron Bloom and I dressed up for the Museum's opening. Seems there were many Condom Amulets scattered about. Did I make those? Someone else? Took one of my favorite casual photos of Ron waiting in line.
That, however, was then. Nine years later my thoughts turn to where
am I going electronically speaking. My friend Ruth Ann Barrett challenged me--in a very nice way--recently. Talking about this began with my being alerted to the zine world again. What morphed into my other blog, Knit a Condom Amulet, It began life as a small paper zine.
HIV infection in women and men over 50 has not declined in the last decade. According to the Centers for Disease Control, they account for 25% of those infected. Amfar reports, "The proportion of AIDS diagnoses among women has more than tripled since the early days of the epidemic, from 7% in 1985 to 25% in 2014. Approximately one in four people living with HIV are women. Of the total estimated number of women living with diagnosed HIV in 2015, 61%were African American."
Still work to do there in telling the story...maybe a new place online where I gather together my parts as a Conceptual Artist. Takes in almost everything I've done since last 20th century--Feminism, of course, knitting worms, "This Dirt Museum: the ladies' room, the NO WAR peace action, bread making...
It's clear I have to get organized. Tomorrow there's the Zine Symposium. Kind of daunting. Have a new zine focused on old people vis a vis young people. Have already been to couple of meetings, mostly young women, gracious, helpful. Took my picture, put it on their Facebook page. More later...
Recent Comments