Walking into the Park Avenue Armory you know you’re about to see something special. The Gothic Revival building, built in 1880, is breathtaking with its soaring ceilings, intricate wood, glass, and tile detailing, and unique lighting fixtures which bathe everything and everyone in a flattering, soft, and romantic glow. This environment invariably pleased the crowd […]
A collective of female and female-identified solo electronic music producers, Hathor was conceived as a space to create community, cultivate creativity, and connect with likeminded artists. Named for the fecund Egyptian goddess of sky, motherhood, music and fertility, Hathor is a powerful antidote to a culture and scene that too often pits women against one another […]
When I worked as a dominatrix, I had a friend who would bring me in for doubles in a sleek downtown NYC studio. I joined her once, I think around 2012, for a session with a client who liked to dress up in cream-colored, old-fashioned lingerie. Clearly, his erotic glee emerged from shocking us with […]
Legacy of the Witch 2 on April 23, 2016 at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn celebrated the witch as an icon of female power and persecution through music, art, and burlesque. Eternal thanks to all those who came out and communed with us! For the second year in a row, we were able to raise $1,000 […]
XHOSA is a genre-bending artist and producer equally at home in the art and music worlds. Her fusion of hip hop, post-punk, R&B, and a kaleidoscopic aesthetic draws equally from Sade and Yayoi Kusama, Lauryn Hill and Andy Warhol. This New York City bred multi-instrumentalist and beat maker’s previous EP Heavy Psyche found her rapping […]
“Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses.” -Joni Mitchell Every March, I continue my yearly tradition of spring cleaning, and with Joni […]
Our March Slut of the Month has the kind of voice that reverberates in your bones. Cutting through Tower‘s sick slab of heavy sonics, Sarabeth’s roar scorches and seduces in the vein of Leather Leone, Janis Joplin or the late great Ronnie James Dio (she did front Holy Diva, after all). Catch this babe commanding the stage with Tower on […]
Undressing conceptions of femininity, objectification, and power with every self-captured pout and arch of her back, Leah Schrager‘s work is a THOT-provoking synthesis of digital culture, hyper-capitalism and sex positive feminism. In a two woman show at Superchief Gallery Soho that Schrager shares with artist, actor and designer Lindsay Jones, the two creatrixes explore their shared history […]
The evening after I heard the verdict in Kesha’s lawsuit against Dr, Luke, I found myself traversing some familiar mental territory. How many women did I know who had been abused, assaulted, or raped? The number is staggeringly high. Even as high as that number is, it can only really come from accounts of those […]
As a mesmeric symbol of female power and persecution, the witch reigns supreme. Her ubiquity in film, fashion, art, and literature is not merely a trend, but speaks to a hunger for archetypes and belief systems beyond patriarchal bounds. Similar to the way the word “slut” is used to police and punish women today, the word “witch” […]
