Artlink Magazine Sexing the Agenda Back Issue

Guest co-editors Joanna Mendelssohn and Bec Dean.
Sexing the Agenda is a wild ride through the lush terrain of gender studies like you've not seen it before. In the name of next gen feminism women are getting in and out of strange disguises, (including the burqa) and in the name of QLGBT others are remaking images of self and selfhood, including drone drag - facial recognition technology used by US drones. Between this there are moments for reflection. 21st Century versions of the idea of family using the trope of 'holy family' Renaissance paintings, self portraits of a lone queer man in Kalgoorlie, couples who work collaboratively on their art. War artists reflect on gender at the battlefront. Indigenous women tell their stories, and the former Female Factory, later the old Paramatta Girls Home, is remembered. Artists include Deborah Kelly, Ben Quilty, Regrette Etcetera, Hannah Raisin, Nat 'n Ali, Yhonnie Scarce, Cigdem Aydemir and Maria Fernanda Cardoso.