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On November 20, 1969, Indigenous activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, in an attempt to take back stolen land under the terms of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that “retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land was to be returned to the Indians who once occupied it”. While the occupation was not able to secure their land rights, it did help end the termination laws that were taking tribes’ lands and attempting to negate their sovereignty. Since 1975, the Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremony, also known as Unthanksgiving Day, is held on that site. Today also marks the National Day of Mourning protest in Plymouth, MA, “a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience”, states United American Indians of New England (UAINE).

Leslie-Lohman Museum acknowledges that New York City as well as the entire country is located on stolen land and founded on the erasure and exclusion of numerous indigenous tribes. Today we look to Chitra Ganesh’s (@chitraganeshbkny) #QueerPower facade which honors the erased histories and architectures of indigenous people (specifically the Lenape) alongside native, now-extinct plants including the sacred Tulip Tree. Her installation is populated with images that recognize the multiple past histories of this city and hemisphere, and expose myths about sparsely populated lands used to justify settler colonialism.

Looking for ways to support indigenous people today and every day? 1. Support queer indigenous artists--including those spotlighted in our collaborations with Knowledge of Wounds earlier this year. 2. Donate to indigenous orgs. Below is a small list to get you started:

-Indigenous Kinship Collective @indigenouskinshipcollective
-Coalition to StopViolence Against Native Women @csvanw
-Indian Law Resource Center @IndianLawResourceCenter
-The Native Youth Sexual Health Network @nyshn
-NDN Collective @ndncollective
-The American Indian College Fund @instacollegefund
- Honor the Earth @honortheearth

Image: Chitra Ganesh, “A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask”, (detail) 2020.

One of the most devastating aspects of 2020 is the unprecedented number of acts of violence against trans and gender non conforming people borne largely by Black trans women. On this Transgender Day of Remembrance we are looking to Chitra Ganesh’s #QUEERPOWER facade which honors the 36 individuals murdered in 2020 (at the time of the work’s completion),
alongside images of historic trans activists like Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, and Lorena Borjas, among others. Below is a series of portraits that Ganesh has drawn from the social media profiles of those no longer with us, and has immortalized in scenes of queer protest, survival, knowledge, and joy in the installation.

TONIGHT, 5pm Washington SQ Park, join @intersectionalvoicescollective to, quote “celebrate the lives of sisters lost and honor those still living”.

Dustin Parker, age 25, OK, 1-1-20
Alexa Negrón Luciano, PR, 2-24-20
Yampi Méndez Arocho, age 19, PR, 3-5-20,
John Scott Devore-Scottlyn Kelly Devore, age 51, GA, 3-12-20
Monika Diamond, age 34, NC, 3-18-20
Lexi “Ebony” Sutton, age 33, NY, 3-28-20
Ashley Moore, age 26, NJ, 4-1-20
Johanna Metzger, MD, 4-12-20
Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos, age 32, PR, 4-21-20
Layla Peláez Sánchez, age 21, PR 4-21-20
Nina Pop, MO, 5-3-20
Penélope Díaz Ramírez, age 31, PR, 4-13-20
Helle Jae O’Regan, age 20, TX, 5-6-20
Jayne Thompson, age 33, CO, 5-9-20
Tony McDade, age 38, FL, 5-27-20
Selena Reyes Hernandez, age 37, IL, 5-31-20
Johana Joha Medina Leon, age 25, ICE custody, 6-2-20
Dominique Rem’mie Fells, PA, 6-9-20
Riah Milton, age 26, OH, 6-9-20
Brian Egypt Powers, age 43, OH, 6-13-20
Draya McCarty, LA, 6-20-20
Brayla Stone, age 17, AR 6-25-20
Merci Mack, age 22, TX, 6-30-20
Tatiana Hall, age 22, PA 6-30-20
Shaki Peters, age 32, LA, 7-1-20
Bree Black, age 27, FL, 7-3-20
Summer Taylor, age 24, WA, 7-4-20
Marilyn Cazares, age 22, LA, 7-13-20
Queasha D. Hardy, age 22, LA, 7-27-20
Dior H Ova-Tiffany Harris, age 32, NY, 7-26-20
Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears, age 32, OR, 7-28-20
Elie Che, age 23, NY, 8-31-20
Isabella Mia Lofton, age 21, NY, 9-7-20
Aerrion Burnett, age 37, MO, 9-19-20
Mia Green, age 29, PA, 9-28-20
Felycya Harris, age 33, GA, 10-3-20

Monday, November 16, 6-8 pm join us for the final conversation in a series of four virtual public programs spotlighting the vibrant 2019-2020 #LLMArtistFellowship. Each of the events features a short artists’ talk by three Fellows, followed by a discussion with a curator, art historian, or writer. This week’s presenting artists include stefa marin alarcon (@stefalives), Heather Lynn Johnson (@heatherjmet), and Monique Muse Dodd (@museofire) in conversation with curator Legacy Russell (@ellerustle).

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art and a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow. Her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020) is published by Verso Books.

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Image: Legacy Russell 📸 (c) Daniel Dorsa.

#VOTE! 🗳Today is Election Day! If you are able to vote and haven’t already done so, get out to the polls an make your voice heard! Voting is both our right and our civic duty. This 2020 election is critical for preserving the rights of the LGBTQ community and especially the rights for LBGTQ people with multiple intersecting and marginalized identities.

If you’re voting in person today below is a helpful guide to your rights:

🔹If the polls close while you’re still in line (9 pm #NYC), stay in line – you have the right to vote.

🔹If you make a mistake on your ballot, ask for a new one.
If the machines are down at your polling place, ask for a paper ballot.

🔹If you run into any problems or have questions on Election Day, call the Election Protection Hotline:
English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682

If you have an absentee ballot you can drop it off at any poll site by 9 pm

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[Image: Diana Davies, (1968 - 1975), “Marcia P. Johnson pickets Bellevue hospital to protest treatment of street people & gays.” @nypl]

Happy Halloween! Leaving this painting by Thomas Woodruff (2003) from #LLMCollection here as a little costume inspiration. What are you dressing up as?

Thomas Woodruff is a self-proclaimed “neo-fabulist” artist who works in series in painting, illustration and books. Calling on vocabularies from the past and present, Woodruff references sideshow banners, Pompeian wall frescoes, Baroque religious paintings, theatrical posters, and Victorian penmanship charts to create a new yet oddly familiar world. Woodruff’s practice is often elegiac in nature and highlights issues around the HIV/AIDS epidemic, aspects of maintaining wellness, and celebrating the outsider in all of us.

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Arantxa Araujo (@arantxaaraujo) #LLMArtistFellow 2019-2020 is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is multidisciplinary, feminist, and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which often include new media, video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance. Araujo’s work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, Chashama Space, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, Art in Odd Places in NYC; RAW, Miami Art Week; Semel & Huret & Spector Gallery, Boston; and SPACE Gallery & Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh; in Mexico, at El Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC and in the Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada.

Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art award recipient (2020/19), BAC grantee (2020), LMCC grantee (2019) and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships, including Creative Capital taller (2018), ITP Camp (2018, 2019) and EMERGENYC (2017). Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from the Mexican Government Institution CONACYT (2012). She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College.

Join @arantxaaraujo, Heather Marie Scholl (@heathermariescholl), and Fernando Vieira (@fernandovieirausa) with curator Richard Morales (@urbanmoral) Monday, November 2, 6-8 PM for the second in a series of four virtual public programs spotlighting the third cohort of the Museum’s Artist Fellowship. RSVP 🔗 in our bio #LeslieLohmanMuseum

Images:
1. Arantxa Araujo,”DAR a Luz”, 2018 📸Kolin Mendez
2. Arantxa Araujo, “POLVO”, 2020 📸Vicios Ocultos
3. Arantxa Araujo, “lutxa”, 2020, 📸Wei Chao
4. Arantxa Araujo, “Yerma”, 2019
5. Arantxa Araujo, “140 Mujeres, 14 Días”, 2018 📸Alex Romania
6. Arantxa Araujo, “lutxa”, 2020, 📸Wei Chao
7. Arantxa Araujo, “CuerpXs de Luz”, 2019 📸Wei Chao
8. Arantxa Araujo, “Cabeza(s) de Mujer(es)”, 2018
9. Arantxa Araujo, “POLVO”, 2020 📸Araujo
10. Arantxa Araujo, “Igneous Affair”, 2018 📸Javier Sanchez

Heather Marie Scholl (@heathermariescholl) #LLMArtistFellow 2019-2020 uses embroidery, mixed media, installation, writing, and education to confront legacies of violence. Using the intimacy of her own story she addresses whiteness, gender, and trauma. Harnessing the disarming effects of craft and heirloom embroidery, her work reveals alarming truths, with an insistence of self-reflection and transformation.

Her series “Whitework” (2015-present) uses whitework embroidery to address white women's roles in white supremacy through home and wearable objects. This work is building to a fully recreated home environment, with education and transformation at the forefront (📸 1-5). Her work also addresses the more personal aspects of her own trauma and emotional landscape. Building from folk art and surrealist traditions, to create a new mythology. She is currently working towards the completion of “The Resurrection of a Victim”, a recreated chapel environment with altar cabinets and triptychs that tell her story of abuse and redemption (📸 6-9).

Learn more about Scholl’s work by visiting heathermariescholl.com.

Join @heathermariescholl, Arantxa Araujo (@arantxaaraujo), and Fernando Vieira (@fernandovieirausa) with curator Richard Morales (@urbanmoral) Monday, November 2, 6-8 PM for the second in a series of four virtual public programs spotlighting the third cohort of the Museum’s Artist Fellowship. RSVP via 🔗 in our bio #LeslieLohmanMuseum

Images:
1. Heather Marie Scholl, “The Heroine’s Veil”, 2016, 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
2. Heather Marie Scholl, “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness” (F), 2018 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
3. Heather Marie Scholl, “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness” (B), 2018 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
4. 5Heather Marie Scholl, “The Throne of Equality, or the Invisible Journey”, 2017 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
5. Heather Marie Scholl, “Whitework” piece in progress, 2020
6. Heather Marie Scholl, “My Inner Twins”, 2016
7. Heather Marie Scholl, “Her pain was life”, 2018
8. Heather Marie Scholl, “The Door”, 2020, Woodworking by Mindy Otten-Chen @mchotten1
9. Heather Marie Scholl. “Incessant Deaths”, 2020
10. 📸 of Heather Marie Scholl, 2020