Do you have to look 'different' to be different?
Someone asked me recently whether fully owning your difference inevitably makes it visible on the outside. In this video I share my answer along with some of my favourite, most ‘me’ outfits.
Sometimes I feel like a monster | chat & make
What happens when the same week someone tells you that you've created a safe space where people feel truly seen, you also put your foot in it so spectacularly that your brain is still replaying the horror movie version three days later?
“Normal is a type of madness”
"Normal is a type of madness, isn't it? I think it's just that the only madness society allows is called normal." - from Life Ceremony, by Sayaka Murata
Interview: Find Your Freaks
In this episode of Find Your Freaks, Tonya Kubo sits down with Eli Trier - artist, writer, and self-described “dopamine dealer” - to explore what it means to live as an outsider and how that experience can become the foundation for something powerful.
Reading to soothe my jangled nerves | Library haul
The construction outside has been relentless, my brain is frazzled, and the only thing that's making me feel better is losing myself in fictional worlds! So the wonderful Lars was dispatched to the library and came back staggering under the weight of a giant pile of books
Aging as art, living as art, dressing as art
Life will happen anyway, may as well make it art
How inspiration works | Basquiat at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Inspiration is rarely a single lightbulb moment. It's more like a compost heap - a giant steaming pile of disparate things slowly breaking down until they become something new. This is a tour of my particular inspiration compost heap.
The compulsion to create ourselves into existence
"She notes the singular importance of this particular genre for women as a “way to present a story about herself for public consumption,” a rare break from the typical objectification of the female form as depicted by the male artist."
