For the archives: My queer gaze, as expressed in pinups.

I was always drawing pretty women, as a teen. I was inspired by the great illustrators, like Alphonse Mucha and Maxfield Parrish, then by SF artists – by sixteen my bedroom was wallpapered with Boris Vallejo- and then by the comic artists who were known for their “Good Girl Art”, which does not mean art […]

Unterwegs for March 2019!

This guy reminded me of a boy named Raj I had a crush on my first semester at Stuyvesant. Something about his slightly flipped, slightly 80s hair. Raj was so cute; I used to watch him play Asteroids in Tony’s Cafe next to Stuyvesant. He went back to India at the beginning of 1981, when […]