Laurie Toby Edison

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Photographic Suites

Pandemic Shadows — an iPhone photography suite during COVID, begun March 2020, completed 2023
Memory Landscapes: A Visual Memoir — a digital color work in progress begun in 2014
Women of Japan — a photographic portrait suite exploring the variety of women who live in Japan, completed 2007
Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes — Laurie Toby Edison, Debbie Notkin and Richard F Dutcher, published October 2003, SHIFTING FOCUS PRESS, P.O. Box 77005, San Francisco, California 94107
Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes — Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin, published October 1994, BOOKS IN FOCUS, P.O. Box 77005, San Francisco, California 94107

Solo Exhibitions

Minato Center (Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), Tokyo, June 2008
Nippon 2007, Women of Japan, Pacifico Center, Yokohama, September 2007
The Photography of Laurie Toby Edison, glbtq Web Gallery (Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), 2006 (www.glbtq.com/slideshows/edisonltslides.html)
Chatterbox Gallery (Familiar Men, Women En Large), San Francisco, March 2004
Good Vibrations (Familiar Men, Women En Large), San Francisco, January-April 2004
301 Gallery at the Center, (Familiar Men), San Francisco, September-October 2003
Kyoto Art Center (Artist in Residence) (Women of Japan), September-October 2002
SOMArts Gallery, “Men of Color: Nudes at Ease” (photographs from Familiar Men), San Francisco, June 2002
National Museum of Art — “Meditations on the Body: Recent Works” (100 photographs from Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), Osaka, Japan, August –September 2001
Third Gallery Aya (Women of Japan, Women En Large), Osaka, Japan, November 20-25, 2000
Gallery Fleur (Familiar Men, Women En Large), Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, November 14-26, 2000
Good Vibrations (Familiar Men), San Francisco, January 1998
Wallace-Musket Gallery (Women En Large), San Antonio, Texas, January-February 1997
New Words Gallery (Women En Large), Cambridge, Massachusetts, February-March 1996
Between the Pages Gallery (Women En Large), Palm Springs, California, January 1996
Suspect Gallery (Women En Large), Seattle, August-September 1995
Rita Dean Gallery (Women En Large), San Diego, 21 June 1995
Good Vibrations (Women En Large), San Francisco, October 1993

Selected Exhibitions

“Pandemic Shadows 36 Mailbox” (Pandemic Shadows), exhibited in ‘Scene and Meaning,’ Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, in collaboration with PH21 Gallery, March 20 - 27, 2023

“Pandemic Shadows 95 Flamingo” (Pandemic Shadows), exhibited in ‘Upside down,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) March 9 - April 1, 2023

“Fukazawa Junko” (Women of Japan), exhibited in ‘Motion @ Rome,’ PH 21 Gallery with KromArt Gallery and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams (Via Biagio Pallai 12, 00152 Rome), November 11–22, 2022

“purple petals & shadows” (Pandemic Shadows 106) & “paint building” (Pandemic Shadows 107), exhibited in ‘Shape’, Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, in collaboration with PH21 Gallery, November 3-13, 2022

“Bubu’s Shoes” (Women of Japan), exhibited in ‘Portraits Without Faces,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) October 20 - November 12, 2022

"Crossing Borders," the inaugural show of Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto Seika University (Japan), with 8 photographs from the permanent collection (4 Women En Large, 4 Familiar Men), 17 June - 23 July 2022

“Queen T'hisha & Robyn Brookes” (Women En Large); A/Symmetrical-Rome, PH 21 Gallery with KromArt Gallery and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams (Via Biagio Pallai 12, 00152 Rome), June 10–20, 2022

“Circles” (Pandemic Shadows 93), at the Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, in collaboration with PH21 Gallery, May 9-15, 2022

"Delicate flower shadows" (Pandemic Shadows 73), exhibited in ‘Monochrome,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) May 5 - 28, 2022

“Collection 2: Our Life”, National Museum of Art, Osaka (5 Women En Large, 2 Familiar Men); February 8th - May 22, 2022

“Ovals” (Pandemic Shadows 9); Shape-Rome, PH 21 Gallery with KromArt Gallery and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams (Via Biagio Pallai 12, 00152 Rome), October 15–24, 2021

A photograph from Women En Large in “The Art of Photography”, at the Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, in collaboration with PH21 Gallery, August 22-29, 2021

Two Pandemic Shadows photographs in “Containment: Stories of Art in Isolation Exhibition,” National Women’s Caucus for Art (Young Women’s Caucus), at the Project Gallery at Arc, July 10 - August 7, 2021

"Palm Leaf Shadow" (Pandemic Shadows), exhibited in ‘Monochrome,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) June 3 - 26, 2021

"The Table Ware Exhibition" (curated by Jennifer Jigour), Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Bankhead Theater Gallery, Livermore, California; May 7-June 27, 2021

Two photographs from Pandemic Shadows, exhibited in ‘-scapes,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) December 17, 2020 – January 9, 2021

November Artist of the Month (Women En Large, Women of Japan, Pandemic Shadows), Women's Caucus for the Arts; November 2020

"Debbie Notkin and Tracy Blackstone" (Women En Large); The Art of Photography, PH 21 Gallery with KromArt Gallery and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams (Via Biagio Pallai 12, 00152 Rome), October 9–30, 2020

Two photographs (Pandemic Shadows) exhibited in ‘Urban,’ a joint show of PH21 Gallery (Budapest) and Valid World Hall Gallery (Barcelona), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; August 20–30, 2020

"Baba" and "Okudo Yoko" (Women of Japan) exhibited in ‘Imagination,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) June 4 - 27, 2020

“J Kellan Dewey-McCracken” (Women En Large) and “Jerry Kellan McCracken” (Familiar Men) in the Women’s Caucus for Art 2020 Juried National Exhibition: Collectively Shifting; 4th floor gallery, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago; January 17 – February 21, 2020

“Frank Brenes” (Familiar Men) exhibited in ‘The Art of Photography,’ a joint show of PH21 Gallery (Budapest) and Valid World Hall Gallery (Barcelona), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; January 6–13, 2020

NWCA Exhibition “Bridging the Gap”, A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn; Feb 8 - Mar 10, 2019

“Chupoo Alafonte” (Women En Large) exhibited in ‘CorpoRealities,’ PH21 Gallery (Budapest) June 14 - July 7, 2018

“Debbie Notkin, April Miller, Carol S, Queen T’hisha, and Robyn Brooks” (Women En Large); NWCA Group Exhibition “Art Speaks!”, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica Art Studios; Feb 21-Mar 10, 2018

Audio evoking “Shawl,” part of the work in progress “Memory Landscapes: A Feminist Memoir”; "ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour through the collection of NMAO," curated by Karin Sander; running with "Travellers: Stepping into the Unknown", the 40th Anniversary Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Osaka; January 21 - May 6, 2018

“Staged”, PH/21 Contemporary Photography Gallery (“Marlene” (2009)), Budapest, Hungary; Jan 18-Feb 10, 2018
"Ryan Gander - These wings aren't for flying", National Museum of Art, Osaka (1 Familiar Men); April 2017
“Portraiture”, PH/21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (1 Women of Japan); November-December 2016
“The Cat Show”, PH/21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (2 Familiar Men); April 2016
"Ecce Homo: Behold The Contemporary Human Image", National Museum of Art, Osaka (4 Women En Large); January 16th - March 21, 2016
"No Museum, No Life?－Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2 Women En Large, 2 Familiar Men); June 16th - September 13th, 2015
“Motion”, PH/21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (1 Women of Japan); 28th May - June 17th, 2015
Transforming Community: Disability, Diversity and Access (1 Women of Japan, 1 Women En Large), Westbeth Gallery, New York City, February 7 – February 22, 2015
Body, PH21 Gallery, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary November 25—December 15 2014
LGBT Art: Our Common Wealth (4 portraits, 2 Familiar Men, 1 Women of Japan, and Tee Corinne), Commonwealth Club gallery, San Francisco, July 21 — September 18, 2014
National Queer Arts Festival, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco: Body, body, bodies, (Tee Corinne and Samuel R Delany), June 7-28 2014
LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, "Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art", Women's Caucus of the Arts international exhibition. (Women of Japan) Shenyang, China, April 15th-30th 2014
Kepco Plaza Gallery Museum, "Woman + Body", Women’s Caucus of the Arts international exhibition (Women En Large, Familiar Men) Seoul, South Korea, October 13-19, 2012
Gwangju Cultural Foundation’s MediaCube 338, "Woman + Body", Women’s Caucus of the Arts international exhibition, Gwangju, South Korea, October 23- November 6, 2012
The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: The Allure of the Collection (6 photos, Familiar Men, Women En Large) Osaka, Japan April 12-June 24, 2012
"Collection" (Familiar Men and Women En Large from their permanent collection), National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, January-April 2012
“Silver/Silicon : 5 Photographic Perspectives” (Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), Back to the Picture, San Francisco, March-April 2007
Gallery Fleur (Familiar Men, Women En Large from the permanent collection), Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, July 2006
“Altered Barbies and Friends” (Women of Japan), Shanghai Normal University Art Gallery, March 2005
“Fat Attitudes: Celebrating Large Women,” Macy Gallery, Columbia University, February 2004

Lesbian ConneXion/s, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2001; Belgrade, Serbia, 2002

Gentofle Main Library, Copenhagen, Summer 1997

University of Manchester (UK), March 1997
The Wheel, London UK, November 1996
“Gender: Beyond Memory,” curated by Michiko Kasahara, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, September 5 — October 27, 1996.
“Real Women” (with Diane Rosenblum and Nina Glaser) at Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon, March 1995
A.I.R. Gallery, Women’s Caucus for the Arts Health Show, Soho, New York City, February-March 1994

Permanent Collections

National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (12 photographs) (www.nmao.go.jp/english/home.html)
Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan (8 photographs) (https://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/fleur/past/2000/familiar/english.html)
Tate Modern, London, UK; Martin Parr Photobook Collection (Women En Large and Familiar Men)
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (www.nmao.go.jp/english/home.html): "ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour through the collection of NMAO," curated by Karin Sander, part of the 40th Anniversary Exhibition; includes Edison’s audio evoking “Shawl,” part of “Memory Landscapes: A Feminist Memoir”

Catalogues

Monochrome Exhibition catalogue, published by the PH21 Centre for Photography, Jun 19, 2021
"Collectively Shifting", Women's Caucus for Art National Exhibition, Chicago, 2020
"Ryan Gander - These wings aren't for flying", National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2017
"Ecce Homo: Behold The Contemporary Human Image", National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2016
"No Museum, No Life?－Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2015
“Motion”, PH/21 Gallery, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, 2015
"Who’s Afraid of Feminism?", A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn NY, 2015
Transforming Community: Disability, Diversity and Access, Westbeth Gallery, NYC, 2015
Body — PH21 Gallery, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary 2014
Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art: International Collaborative Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art and Chinese Women Artists — Luxon Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang China, 2014
Choice: An Art Exhibition on Women's Reproductive Rights — San Francisco — 2013
Women + Body — International Collaborative Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art and Korean Woman Artists, Kepco Plaza Gallery Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2012
The National Museum of Art, Osaka 2012 — 35th Anniversary Catalogue 2012
Meditations on the Body: Recent Works of Laurie Toby Edison (photographs from Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan, 2001
Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists — Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996

Documentaries

Meditations on the Body, produced and directed by John Wells, on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, MediaWorks, Japan (January 2008) (On YouTube)
ChumTV, CityTV, (Familiar Men) Toronto (February 2004, syndicated across Canada, NBC Asia, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Brazil, Japan, Poland, Spain, and Thailand)
SexTV, CityTV, (Women En Large) Toronto (April 2001, syndicated across Canada, NBC Asia, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Brazil, Japan, Poland, Spain, and Thailand)
Fat Is Beautiful: Empowering Fat Women through Media, Paper Tiger television documentary, directed by Randi Cecchine (March 21, 2000, New York City)
Body: The Value of Women, February 2000 documentary directed by Shereen Noon, inspired by and featuring Women En Large
OohLaLa, CityTV, Toronto, (April 30, 1998, syndicated across Canada, NBC Asia, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Brazil, Japan, Poland, Spain, and Thailand)

Selected Print and Web Appearances

Edison, Laurie & Notkin, Debbie, “The Trajectory of Fat Liberation: Where Did We Start? Where Are We Now?”, edited by Lori Don Levan & Stefanie Snider, Fat Studies Journal (Routledge 2022)

Article on Pandemic Shadows, in the web magazine Feminine Moments, Denmark. (2020)

Black Utopia: Speculative Life and the Music of Otherworlds, Duke University Press (2020), by Jayna Brown: the photograph of Samuel R Delany from Familiar Men.

Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness (Routledge 2018), by Emily L. Newman. (The cover photograph of Debbie Notkin from Women En Large and discussion of WEL's pioneering influences.)

'Fette Kunst' ('Fat Art'): Kristina Kuličová, "Fat-Studies in Deutschland: Hohes Körpergewicht zwischen Diskriminierung und Anerkennung", ed. Dr. Friedrich Schorb and Prof. Dr. Lotte Rose, Beltz Juventa (Spring 2017), photos of Edna Rivera, Queen T’hisha & Robyn Brooks, and Rhylorien n’a Rose from Women En Large.

Bravo! Digital Gallery. Special issue on the female body, curated by Thais Gouveia (Queen T’hisha from WEL), Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 2017.

Lori Don Levan, “Resisting Negative Stereotypes of Female Fatness,” Chapter 4 in “The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement” editor Ragen Chastain, Praeger 2015.

30 LGBT Artists and Performers to Follow, Huffington Post (October 11 2012), photo of Bob Guter from Familiar Men.
30 LGBT Artists You Should Know, Huffington Post (June 28, 2012), photo of Bob Guter from Familiar Men.
Gesture and Meaning, photography text book, Open College of the Arts, Barnsley UK (October 2012) photo of April Miller from Women En Large and text.
Fat Studies: An International Journal of Body Weight and Society, review by Stefanie Snider of Women En Large and The Full Body Project. (February 2012)
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka Japan (March 2012). The catalog includes a photograph Bob Guter from Familiar Men.
We Learn magazine, essay on Edison and Alice Neel, Junko Fukazawa, Tokyo (Japan, Winter 2011/12)
Filament Magazine, interview with Edison on her work and Familiar Men (10 photographs), Suraya Sidhu Singh (England, December 2011)
Dazed and Confused/Korea, article “Ugly Beautiful,” photos from Women En Large (Korea, February 2011)
Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, “Body Image in the Japan and the United States,” written with Debbie Notkin, Rebecca Jennison and Mika Kobayashi (October 2009)
Image and Gender Magazine, Kitahara Megumi essay (2008)
femin, Tokyo (Japan, October 5, 2007)
The Photography of Laurie Toby Edison, glbtq Web Gallery (Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), 2006
Kyoto Journal: Perspectives From Asia. (October 2006), essay on Women of Japan and photographs
Zenya, Hwangbo Kanja essay on Women of Japan (Tokyo, 2006)
“Beautiful men = Hombres hermosos” Corpus, v3#1 (fall 2005), pp 132-145
Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, Kathleen LeBesco, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst & Boston, 2004)
Queer Crips: Disabled Gary Men and Their Stories, Bob Guter & John R. Killacky, Haworth Press, 2004 (A 2003 Lambda Award winner), photographs in book
Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, Kathleen LeBesco, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst & Boston, 2004
NY Arts/Berliner Kunst (New York/Berlin, May- June 2004), article
Crescent Blues, March 2004 (www.crescentblues.com/7_2issue/feat_picks.shtml), review
Bitch (San Francisco, January 2004), interview
N Magazine (Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winter 2003), review
NY Arts/Berliner Kunst (New York/Berlin, November- December 2003), review
SF Weekly (San Francisco, November 5-11, 2003), review
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, September 19, 2003), feature article
Diatxt. Magazine (Kyoto, Spring 2003), interview
Living in Kyoto (February, 2003), interview
Spectrum (San Francisco, June 2002)
SF Frontiers (San Francisco, May 30, 2002)
The Independent (San Francisco, May 30, 2002)
The Bay Times (San Francisco, May 28, 2002)
The Philadelphia Weekly (Philadelphia, February 20, 2002), feature article
PGN (Philadelphia, February 15, 2002)
Yoshioka, Hiroshi — “The Invisible Male Body,” Filozofski vestnik, Vol. 23 No. 2, (Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 2002), feature article

Le’a Kent, “Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women,” Chapter 7 of “Bodies Out of Bounds,” UC Berkeley Press (2001)

Mainichi Shinbun, (Japan, August 23, 2001)
Asahi Shinbun, (Japan, August 17, 2001)
Nikkei, (Japan, August 17, 2001)
Sankei Shinbun, (Japan) August 12, 2001)
“Respecting the Beauty of Diversity,” Crescent Blues, April 2001 (www.crescentblues.com/3_5issue/edison.shtml), interview
Art Activism II , Kitahara Megumi (Osaka, December 2000), chapter on Laurie Toby Edison
Hyper-Media Feminist Queer Readings, Mari Kotani (Tokyo, February 2000), photograph on cover
On Our Backs (October 1999, December 1999, April 2000), photographs in articles
FHM (London, UK, February 1999 and Australia, March 1999), feature article
Kobe Shimbun (Kobe, December 19, 1998), interview
Japan Times (Tokyo, October 25, 1998), interview
Siren (Toronto, April/May 1998), interview
The Politics Behind the Nude, edited by Michiko Kasahara, Chikuma Shobo Publishing Company (Tokyo, February 1998)
The Future of the Body, edited by Takayuki Tatsumi (Treville Co. LTD, Tokyo, 1998), photographs and essay by Debbie Notkin in book
XTRA! (Toronto, Canada, February 26, 1998), interview
Union-News (Amherst, Massachusetts, February 18, 1998), feature article
American Studies and Gender, edited by Kazuko Watanabe (Sekaishiso sha, Kyoto, Japan, July 1997), book chapter with photographs
Yes! (London, UK, February/March 1997), feature article
Le Millenium (Tokyo, January 1997), interview
Diva (London, UK, December 1996), interview
Eat Fat, Richard Klein (US Pantheon/Vintage 1996; UK MacMillan 1997), photograph in book
Chugoku Shimbun (Hiroshima, October 1996), interview
The Sunday Express (London, UK, October 1996), review
Asahi Evening News (Tokyo, September 1996), feature article
Afterimage (US, December 1994), review
Black Elegance (US, December 1994), review
Radiance (US, May 1994), feature article by Debbie Notkin with photographs
Denver Post (September 28, 1994), feature article
San Francisco Examiner (May 17, 1994), interview
Minneapolis Star-Tribune (March 23, 1994), interview
Allure (US, Spring 1994), review
The Utne Reader (US, March-April 1994), back page feature
Whole Earth Review (US, Spring 1993), article by Debbie Notkin with photographs
After Babel (Japan, September 1992), feature article

Selected Lectures and Presentations

A Symposium on 3 artists - Tomiyama Taeko, Laurie Toby Edison and Shimada Yoshiko, as part of the “Border Crossings” exhibition at Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto Seika University, July 23, 2022. (YouTube link forthcoming)
Introductory Speaker at opening of Bodyscapes exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest (through Google Meetings) July 1, 2021
Wiscon 2014 — "Memory Landscapes: Time Travel Through Our Lives" with Debbie Notkin, Emma Humphries and writer Nisi Shawl.
Wiscon 2014 — "Time, Contingency and Memory: As Elements of Art" with Debbie Notkin and writers Pat Murphy and Nisi Shawl.
Portland Community College, Photography, Feminism and Body Image, July 15th, 2013
Wiscon 2010 “A Cross Culture Work Conversation” with Mari Kotani
Kyoto International Manga Museum, September 2007
Foto-Graphix, San Francisco, December 2006
Dr. Rebecca Jennison, on Women of Japan, PSi #12 Performing Rights Conference, London UK June 2006
“Women En Large – Looking Back Over Ten Years,” NAAFA Conference, San Mateo, California, August 2005
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, April 2005
Dawn Center, Osaka, December 18, 2004
Yokohama Women’s Forum/BankARTS Gallery, Yokohama, December 12, 2004
Waseda University, Tokyo, December 9, 2004
Columbia University, New York, February 28, 2004
Wellesley College, Massachusetts, February 10, 2004
Waseda University (with Mari Kotani), Tokyo, October 22, 2002
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, October 11, 2002
Kyoto Art Center (with Kangja Hwangbo and Hagiwara Hiro), October 6. 2002
Third Gallery Aya (with Mika Kobayashi), Osaka, September 27, 2002
“Contested Flesh” (with Jaime Cortez), National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, June 2002
“The Female Gaze” (with Maryann Luera), National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, June 2002
International Women’s Day, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 8, 2002
College Art Association, National Conference, Philadelphia, February 21, 2002
Lambda Literary Festival, San Francisco, October 2001
“Stories of the Body,” National Museum of Art, Osaka, August 2001
National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, June 2001
Good Vibrations, San Francisco, March 2001, January 1998, March 95, October 93
Kyoto Seika University, November 2000
Bookstore Gallery Amus, Osaka, November 2000
Readers & Writers Conference, San Francisco, April 1997 & October 2000
New England Camera Club, 54th Annual Conference, Amherst, July 1999
Kyoto Seika University, October 1998
Kyoto Sangyo University, October 1998
OutWrite Conference, Boston, March 1998
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, February, 1998
Amherst College, Massachusetts, February, 1998
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February, 1998
Fat Feminist Conference, Seattle, November 1996
Ms Crayonhouse Book Store, Tokyo, Japan, September 1996
College Art Association, National Conference, Boston, February 1996
Women’s Caucus for Art, National Conference, Boston, 1996, San Antonio, 1995

Selected Broadcast Interviews and Features

Body Oppression Teach-in, Sonoma Occupy, Sonoma CA September 2015
Interview with Leanne Putt, Open College of the Arts, Barnsley UK, March 28 2014
Deborrah Cooper, BlogTalk Radio (April 16, 2008)
WBAI Radio (“Cat Radio – International Womens’ Day” New York, March 8, 2006)
Chum TV (Toronto, February 2004)
WBAI Radio (“Cat Radio,” New York, March 20, 2002)
City TV (Toronto, March 2001)
Eyada.com (Internet radio, “Love Bites with Bob Berkowitz,” May 19, 2000)

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