Insight Studios insightstudiosonline.com As a piercing veteran, I’ve gotten over the adolescent impulse to rebel at the nearest body shop. I still have the urge to get pierced, but these days it’s in the most cautious, mature manner possible. At Insight, “Santi,” aka Juan Santiago, one of Insight Studios’ resident piercers, took hold of my […]
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Best sex-positive podcast
Full Disclosure With Eric Barry fulldisclosurepodcast.com Full Disclosure doesn’t just talk about sex, baby. Raw, raunchy, and touching, the local podcast takes an intelligent and humorous approach to discussing all things between the sheets, in dungeons, and in the news. Shows frequently touch on trans issues, masturbation, erotica (writing and film), sex work, BDSM, feminism, […]
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Woman Made Gallery’s Claudine Isé discusses ‘Feminism (n.): Plural’ in the art world
The gallery’s new show invites artists and viewers to engage in a conversation about what feminism looks, acts, and sounds like today.
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Check out artist Taylor Winder’s new book of ‘grotesque cartoonism’
And then, while you’re at it, leave him a tip.
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Artist Doris Salcedo discusses her MCA retrospective
A closer look at “Doris Salcedo”
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Rhona Hoffman and Valerie Carberry Galleries represent Chicago at ADAA Art Show
The 27-year-old art fair is one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished.
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In Wild, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon play characters with a unique mother-daughter bond
A mother and daughter, separated by a generation of feminist thought.