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#NHVdrag, New Haven PRIDE, and City-wide Open Studios
Diminishing Summer
and now Introducing...
Join me on September 16th at the New Haven PRIDE block party for the release of #NHVdrag. Limited to a printing of 500, all numbered and signed, copies will be available for $20, along with other #NHVdrag merchandise.
10% percent of all proceeds from #NHVdrag will be donated to the New Haven Pride Center; an institution dedicated to serving the needs of the LGBTQ community and its allies in Greater New Haven.
This project is 100% self-produced, self-published, and self-funded. If you are interested in contributing financial support for this document of queer cultural history in New Haven please contact me at 203.444.8538 or nhvdrag@gmail.com
All contributions of any amount would be well received and go towards artist living expenses and the production of #NHVdrag, Volume No.2, 168 York Street Café
Partners Café
New Haven, CT - 2017
Partners Café
New Haven, CT - 2017
Partners Café
New Haven, CT - 2017
#NHVdrag will have a booth at the PRIDE block party on Saturday, September the 16th from 4–8pm. I will have copies of the book, limited edition prints, and t-shirts for purchase. The block party will take place on Center Street between Church & Orange and will feature street performers, vendors, family friendly activities and more! Enter from Church Street.
City-wise Open Studios 2017, Westville Weekend @
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In the Gallery Room I will be exhibiting a selection of prints from my #NHVdrag photo-series. I'm excited to share this new body of work which serves as a future history of the social and cultural contributions of our drag community here in New Haven.
There is an increasing unwillingness to acquiesce to the false totality of the partial history inherited us by the white-supremecist, homogenizing western "heroes" of colonization. The documentation of history must not be left exclusively to institutions of power lest we arrive again 100 years hence at yet another cataclysm of unlearned lessons and celebration of oppressors.
I have identified photography, and by extension the printed document, as my opportunity to contribute to queer history as a queer person. I realized that, with a camera in hand, if I see something that I feel is important, by photographing it, I am contributing to it's legacy that it might remain and continue and be found and not forgotten.
We must advocate for our stories to be told by the voices of the people who lived them and as we continue to pioneer our paths in the present let us do so in full acknowledgment that our future history is the most important time for change.