Episode 38: Why Have There Been No Great Transgender Artists?
We're coming for your throat, Linda! On a spicy (technically third part) response, BYWAP is back on our regular bullsh*t to talk about Art Spaces and Queer artists with Why Have There Been No Great Transgender Artists by Jeannie Tang, delivered at the Queering the Museum panel at the Brooklyn Museum (2013). Today's episode discussion is also enhanced by Marta Wiktoria Byrll's article Modern Transgender Art (2020). To no one's surprise, gender, identity, and race still deeply impacts how artists are received... And usually? It's not great! If your feminism isn't intersectional, it's trash.
Find out how art schools have (d)evolved over the decades, continue to disassemble the sexism (and other toxic biases) of all art institutions, contemplate how your personal bias affects how you attribute art to artist identity, stay curious about why the Identity of the Artist is so deeply linked to the reception of the Artist, and remain frustrated over how the stagnant interpretation of visibly trans artists affects everything that they then must overcome... just to make it in the world! This is a heavy episode. And in case you're wondering: the "Genius" still does not exist.
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