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Gender, Fucked: An Exhibition Made by Lesbians About Gender, COCA, Seattle, WA, June 28-August 23, 1996
Gender, Fucked: An Exhibition Made by Lesbians About Gender, COCA, Seattle, WA, June 28-August 23, 1996

Gender, Fucked: An Exhibition Made by Lesbians About Gender, COCA, Seattle, WA, June 28-August 23, 1996

Artist Ellen Forney
Printer Girlie Press
Venue COCA (Center on Contemporary Art)
Date1996
Mediumpaper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 26 × 19 7/8 in. (66.04 × 50.483 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1998.828.3
Text Entries

This poster was designed by Ellen Forney (b. 1968). who is a cartoonist based in Seattle. In the 1990s, her autobiographical comic strip I Was Seven in ‘75 ran in The Stranger, and her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines, in collaboration with comedian Margaret Cho, writer Kristin Gore, professor Camille Paglia, and Stranger sex columnist Dan Savage, among others. She has published work related to mental health and political activism, curated a travelling exhibition on comics and health for the National Library of Medicine, and painted two murals in Seattle’s Capitol Hill light rail station. 

"Gender, Fucked: An Exhibition made by Lesbians about gender" was curated by Catherine Lord (b. unknown) and Harmony Hammond (b. unknown). It opened in 2016 at the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) in Seattle.

Poster with white border and a black inner border. Title of the exhibition is in pink lettering at the top. Below the title are two women , each with a pink bodice that turns into a pink skirt that is shared between both. One woman is bald and the other has black, curly hair. Details of the exhibition and the artist represented are in black ink towards the bottom of the poster.
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