Personal Statement: I am a writer, visual artist, filmmaker, and community organizer.

Men’s works turn me on - their videos, their books, their music. But their portrayal of woman is one I don’t want, one I am not. So aggravating. To put it mildly! Getting turned on by music in a song whose lyrics put me down. By films whose portrayals set me up. By words in a book scribbling me out. A television image whose reflection erases me.

The ghost of woman embodied in the distant but definite description of her insulted form is a ghost author simultaneously elevated and demeaned until she writes herself and makes herself manifest. I create, therefore I am.

To take up space like a man, or a subject. The insistence. Someone who authors desire! In my art I author myself.