Austin’s Gender Unbound Spotlights Trans and Intersex Creators

The multi-disciplinary arts fest seeks community support to expand

"...Stuff for a start – which partially explains why Gender Unbound’s third annual festival is expanding from one day..."

July 18, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Charlie Neddo

Gender Unbound: Spotlighting Trans and Intersex Artists

The fest is raising money to pay featured musicians and artists

"...If ever there was a time to celebrate our transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex communities it’s now. Texans living..."

Aug. 2, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Trans*/Gender 101

Opening up to transgender terms and realities moves everyone forward

"...Open-heartedness is the best arrow in the quiver in..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Lawrence Everett Forbes

Gay Place

The Gender Unbound Art Fest will spotlight the work of trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming artists and musicians

"...around our bodies, bathrooms, victimhood, surgeries, and transitions," says Gender Portraits artist and nonprofit founder Drew Riley. Instead of..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Wall of Words

Artist Drew Riley on the power of Transgender Day of Visibility

"...Local artist Drew Riley – known for her Gender Portraits series – is one of two activists speaking..."

March 30, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Drew Riley

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Gender Unbound: bigger and better than ever

"...that's looking to be a truism for this year's Gender Unbound Art Festival, which takes over the Blue Genie..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Keeping Life Queer in 2020

A Guide to Gifting Queerly for the coming decade

"...A Painting from Drew Riley’s Gender Portraits Collection..."

Dec. 5, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Shout OUT: Drew Riley

These are the people in our gayborhood: Jane of all Trades

"...of stages, she began an art and advocacy project, "Gender Portraits", that has since given purpose to the new..."

July 8, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

Gay Place: Grit 'N Glitz

Heavy-hitting week in the LGBTQ with Christeene, Drew Riley, Eileen Myles, Peaches, and more

"...GENDER PORTRAITS @ EAST Face it. Drew Riley's portraits are..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

Support our talented local queer artists this holiday season

"...that special someone. Perhaps you're looking for knockout artwork? Gender Portraits, Shaun Lee Creative, Court Lurie, Beth Consetta Rubel,..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Your Queer Guide to Austin

A crash course on the city's LGBTQ parties, prides, and resources

"...A monthly community meetup (at Butterfly Bar) for trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary folks – and their allies...."

Sept. 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

This year's Top 10 local queer heroes & LGBTQ stories

"...the president of PFLAG to her presence at the Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial, Nguyen is a great force..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Events to Help Queer Up Your Autumn

As the temperatures cool, the queers come out to play

"...Now known as the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival, aGLIFF is one of..."

Aug. 30, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Out in Public

OUTsider returns with Sex in Public, and we're ready to voyeur

"...incorporates her dog, Fu Fu, as well as ethnicity, gender, class, and the body. Appearing, too, is Star Amerasu,..."

Feb. 17, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Ezra Edwards

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Modern-day cultural fads

"...Gender Portraits Artist Talk: Drew Riley discusses the complexity of..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Queer Events to Come

A guide to Austin's poppin' parties, fests, and art shows

"...with diversity in mind! aGLIFF, now short for All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival, returns with more than..."

Feb. 12, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place: He's BAAAAAACK!

They all come back, y'all, and this is one we're happy to see. SRDub, aka Stanley Roy.

"...Gender Portraits Exhibition Drew Riley's art is as unconformingly bright,..."

July 10, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Self-Care for Queers, by Queers

A queer's guide to gifting and weathering the next three years

"...Riley, the Chronicle’s 2017 “Best Artivist” and mastermind behind Gender Portraits, for art classes. For now, tentatively scheduled classes..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Gay Place

Summer is the best time to get outside and play like a kid

"...VERGE Summer Art Show Catch Gender Portraits' artist Drew Riley (and many more) at this..."

July 29, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

'Arise' Screens Tonight at Alamo Slaughter

Award-winning film documents women working for social change

"...being accomplished toward goals of Earth democracy, biodiversity, and gender equity, Arise is an important film for its promotion..."

Sept. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Gay Place

The Flash Collective calls on the queer community to help create public art

"...piece, created by Austin's Flash Collective, will feature small portraits of queer residents along with local and national LGBTQ..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Fall into fun!

"...pioneered in the 1600s with all-female troupes performing multiple gender roles, spawned the art of kabuki actor portraits. From..."

Aug. 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

“Micky Hoogendijk: Pure Imagination” at Women & Their Work

The photographs here fully reveal the artist’s skill with composition and light, but show less of their subjects’ interior life

"...dealer, this is a consideration, too. Several of her portraits – her best, really, with the girl's anachronistic septum..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Melany Jean

The Huntress Captured by the Game

"...haven't yet made it into paper but remain definitive portraits of the princess who would never be queen...."

Aug. 27, 1999 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

On Display

"...PGP (Preferred Gender Pronoun): She..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Vision Portraits D: Rodney Evans A feature-length documentary that chronicles the..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

"Xavier Schipani: Chasing Desire" at Lora Reynolds Gallery

The artist probes the history and crisis of masculinity by placing beefy men in salacious tangles, exposed and unashamed

"...slogans and doodles, all centered on similar themes of gender, sexuality, and identity. At Lora Reynolds, Schipani's exploration of..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Buttigieg Back for SXSW, Plus Kenan Thompson and More

New speaker list adds keynotes and notables to virtual conference

"...to discuss his new book, Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants, the second collection of his art,..."

Feb. 24, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

FotoATX: "Austin Women by Austin Women" at the Elisabet Ney Museum

The five women showing photographs capture the beauty, passion, grace, and resilience of being a woman in Austin today

"...but stylistically characteristic of Blackwood and her exploration of gender, here anatomized in close crops of her subjects...."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Christina Coleman at WEST 2017

The artist gives voice to the blackness in creation stories and personal histories

"...Mexican-American family. We've had a tradition of taking formal portraits of the kids when they reach the age of..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

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