Teaching Myself to Love

A long-term umbrella project: Teaching Myself to Love, in which I proactively explore love and loving in my body, my interactions, and our cultural mythology. Through a variety of actions, small daily practices, performances, and pieces in varying media I work my lover muscles.
I hunt, rummage and probe into relationships with myself/body, sex, romance, family, friends, community, spirituality and the greater world (society and the environment). In a time when there is no clear recipe, regimen, or curriculum to learn love, I will learn to teach myself.

Pieces involved in Teaching Myself to Love:
*31 actions: Crosstraining for Teaching Myself to Love
* You Know What I Love
A new ongoing project You Know What I Love is a week-ishly testament to something I love in my nearby surroundings.

Open Source Inspiration

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Hand List Project

Ephemeral orginizational art. Bathing is the Hand List’s natural enemy. My left, at random, through time and place.

Queer Sex Worker Pride Float

June 2008
I organized a float for sex workers in the annual San Francisco Pride parade. It was open to all sex workers and allies to participate and based on the historic role sex workers have played in San Francisco’s heritage. Between 1849 and 1906 madams and sex workers from local brothels would pile into open carriages and drive up and down Market Street to advertise their businesses and show off their fabulousness. We dressed in vintage lingerie in a vintage cable car as a nod to our legacy and to gain visibility and spread awareness about sex workers rights. The float was seen by tens of thousands of people and we handed out hundreds of informational cards about notable figures in San Francisco’s sex worker history (written by Jenny Worley) as well as an online resource guide for information about the plight of contemporary sex workers.