Although 2023 ultimately turned out to be a year of cocooning and artistic reassessment for me, it started off strong, showing visual art in three exhibitions simulataneously.

• Cast/Recast, which showed at Mason Exhibitions in Arlington, VA, re-opened for a second run at Gillespie Gallery of Art at GMU Fairfax, showing my tapestry "I Am The End of the Patriarchy and So Can You."
• The first iteration of "I Am The End of the Patriarchy and So Can You" showed at Monmouth University as part of the exhibition Aging and the Lived Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-conforming (T/GNC) Older Adults: Narratives through Art.
• I also had new work in Forecast at Tephra ICA in Reston and as part of Sue Wrbican's Buoyant Oracle project. 

In March I released an album of solo guitar and voice songs, 50'♀ In The Raw: Live from the Magpie Cage. 

To celebrate, I performed a single album release show with Lady Hatchet & Jeff Waters at Zissimo's

Before Sinéad O'Connor's untimely death in 2023, I performed a tribute set at Current Space as part of Summer ATP, a ten-minute-one-time-only-band production event. Working with longtime collaborators Dominique Diglio on guitar and Andrea Shearer on drums, my tribute culminated with an homage to O'Connor's notorious Saturday Night Live appearance, in which I tore a hardcover of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in half with my bare hands.

After her death, I performed a solo set of Sinéad O'Connor's songs at Shakemore, a long-running alt-music festival in Western Maryland. In addition I appeared at Shakemore as a guest vocalist with the Go-Pills, performing Roky Erikson's "If You Have Ghosts" and with the festival closing Half Japanese tribute band, performing "Charmed Life."

I performed numerous other times this year, performing scroll readings, original music, and even a live reading of the Poe story "Ms. Found In A Bottle."

• Spellbinder Salon (The Crown, January): original music
• An Evening of Tom Petty (Zissimo's, February): cover music performed with Dominique Diglio and Christina Reitemeyer
• CityLit Panel: Queer Possibility: writing catastrophe and imagining what comes next, with Tonee Moll, Unique Robinson, Megan Milks, and Imani Spence (Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, March): Panel discussion and new original scroll reading performance
• Trans [Re]incarnation release party, with E. Kerr and Sylvia Jones (The Crown, April): Reading recently published works and an original scroll reading performance
• Waverly Writers Salon (Peabody Heights, April): Curated a panel of Waverly Writers for the new Waverly Book Festival and reading recently published works and an original scroll reading performance
• The Hopkins Review Walking Folio launch (The Ivy Bookshop, May): Reading from my new essay in the Hopkins Review
• Doomsday 2023 (Greedy Reads Fells Point, May): Live and streaming reading of Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" as part of a 24-hour Poe reading celebration hosted by Greedy Reads and the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre
• 50'♀, with Home Body, Manners Manners and Glorian (The Crown, June): Original music 
• Charm City Kitty Club (Theater Project, July): Original music and a new original scroll reading performance in two-night celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Charm City Kitty Club
• Tarot performance (Atomic Books, August): Tarot readings in honor of Eamon Espey's new tarot deck, Second Sight

2023 was full of jurying and curatorial opportunities, and I was honored to produce a range of events ranging from literary events and conversations about public art to curating the performance stage for the 2023 MSAC Triennial at Maryland Art Place.

• When Public Art is More Than Sculpture: Arts Roundtable featuring Se Jong Cho, Graham Coreil-Allen and Sylvia Jones (Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, February): Curated and hosted a lively discussion about the many forms and TK of public art
• Vivid: A Trans Femme and Queer-Led Group Exhibition (Gallery CA, March): Curation and artist talk hosting for a showcase of young trans artists
• Public Art in Baltimore: Practice, Curation and Collaboration, a discussion with Teri Henderson (Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, March): A second installment of public art conversation with the arts editor of the Baltimore Beat and author of Black Collagists
• Waverly Writers Salon (Peabody Heights, April): Curated a reading of writers based in Waverly to kick off the inaugural Waverly Book Festival
• MSAC Triennial performance stage (Maryland Art Place, May): Curated and hosted a evening of performance from artists across the state of Maryland for the 2023 MSAC Triennial, featuring performances by Liz Downing, Elizabeth Hill, MAD Dance, Rie Moore, Shana Oshiro, Pique Collective and Ramón Tasat
• Recycled Sculpture Contest juror (Montgomery Park Auditorium, November): One of three artist jurors for Maryland Department of the Environment's annual Recycled Sculpture Contest for high school aged artists

2023 
Publications in 2023 included: 
* "VFW Hall" in Flux (forthcoming in print in 2023)
* "Making Fajitas in Manasquan" in Beach Badge #1 
* "You're Never Too Old To Throw Up In A Neptune Bathroom" in Beach Badge #2
* "Twilight For Us All" in Light Ekphrastic, Feb 2022
Ongoing articles in BmoreArt, Jennifer Magazine, and UMBC Magazine

2022 
My chapbook, Heretic to Housewife, continued to sell its second pressing and provided opportunities for online literary events throughout 2021. 
 
I was invited to be on faculty at the inaugural Tulsa Glitterary Writers Conference in 2021, where I presented a writing workshop entitled "Voice Exercises: Finding, Strengthening, and Refining the Writer's Voice." I also offered a reading from a cross section of my published works during the conference run. 
 
This kicked off a number of literary events throughout 2021, including a reading and artist talk as part of Urban Ivy's anniversary celebration and a panel at OutWrite entitled "LGBQT+ Writers Reading the Apocalyptic News." I was also a guest panelist at the virtual version of Barrelhouse's annual Writers Connect conference, as part of the "Cross-Genre: Stay in Your Lane(s): Writing and Publishing in Multiple Genres" panel.
 
In October I joined Eleanor Whitney and Liz Flyntz at Red Emma's for a talk about issues summoned by Whitney's new book, Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy.
 
In November, the Enoch Pratt Free Library invited me to participate in their Book Chat with Pratt online interview series. I chatted with Lo Smith, with a focus on November as Trans Awareness Month, and the conversation was broadcast and archived on YouTube and Facebook Live. 

Passed a nice milestone in 2021 in which my supercut video work was cited in Max Tohline's A Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases. Subsquently, Tohline published a list of the 20 Most Underrated Supercuts of All Time, and included my 2008 piece Equal+Opposite at number 11.
 
I also guest-hosted on several episodes of the Projection Booth podcast, including discussions of Witchhammer, The Mephisto Waltz, and Just One of the Guys. The Witchhammer episode was released as a bonus feature of the 2021 DVD release of the film, as a component of Severin Film's comprehensive box set All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror.
 
And, of course, two of my supercut video collages continued to be available via the BMA Screening Room. 
 
2020
Two of my video collages, "Dude Descending a Staircase #1" (2019) and "Simoom" (2009) were invited for inclusion in the BMA Screening Room, the online video platform launched by the BMA to support the work of Baltimore artists in the wake of the pandemic. 
 
"Dude Descending A Staircase #1" premiered in an exhibit during the  International Conference of Chinese Computer Human Interaction, Xiamen, China in June 2019, and was created in direct response to the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Bret Kavanaugh in 2018. "Simoom, "which premiered at the BMA in 2009, is an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's first story, "MS. Found In A Bottle," and was commissioned by the 48 Hour Film Festival for their celebration of Poe's anniversary in 2009. 
 
In the days immediately prior to the quarantine shutdown, I was honored to show work in a two-person retrospective (along with Kristen Anchor) in the Microcinema series curated by Stephanie Barber at Rhizome DC. 
 

I completed my MFA in Intermedia + Digital Arts at UMBC in 2021. My thesis project, Sick Transit, a tripartite intermedia piece about medicine, mobility, and art-making within a mother/daughter relationship defined by multiple sclerosis and transsexuality.

Sick Transit is an exemplativist femmage, comprising a series of autobiographical monologic performances meditating on mobility, maternity, gender, feminism, and systems of healthcare in the relationship between two artists: the transsexual daughter of a devout Mormon who lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 30 years. 

The titular video performance is featured in Let’s Exchange, a streaming telethonic variety/talk show hosted by the artist  interviewing more than two dozen Baltimore artists, and framed by Control Room, an installation replicating the artist’s pandemic studio. A supplementary internet radio show, featuring a playlist of related music, was featured on Carrie Fucile's Owls At Noon internet radio channel. 

For the hardy, my MFA thesis defense was broadcast (and archived!) on Facebook Live.