Ain’t nobody f*ckin’ with my
CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT 
Ain’t nobody fresher than my muthaf*ckin’
CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT 
As I look around, they don’t do it like my
CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT 
And all these bad bitches, man, they want the
They want the, they want the
CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT, CLIT

Hip-Hop Legend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19x8Wqpkq8
Reppin’ for the CLIT, lyrics appropriated from Kanye

I’m speaking on a panel at Photo Plus Expo tomorrow. The talk is at 1:30pm at the Javitz Center in New York City.

The panel addresses how online publishing affects photography as an industry. I will be speaking about the ways in which the online space presents vital potential for discourses and subjects who are historically and and currently censored in print. I’ll also be sharing tactical tips for getting your work published online. 

Details:

Fri, Oct 28, 2011 - 1:30 PM to 3:30 PMThe New World of Online Magazines + Curator Websites

Speakers:
Julie Grahame, Founder, aCurator.com
Manjari Sharma
Michael Itkoff
Stella Kramer, Moderator
Sophia Wallace

Tumultuous photography industry changes over the past five years, both in publishing and advertising, have reduced many avenues for emerging and even mid-career photographers to gain entry into the business. But as some doors close, others open, specifically with new online, curated Web sites and online photography magazines. These generally open-submission platforms are creating new avenues for photographers to show their work, and to place their images in front of photo editors, art buyers, gallerists, museum curators and others with an interest in photography. Free from the constraints of advertising demands, these online destinations offer photographers a way for their work to be seen as they like, and the chance to be seen by people all over the world. In this seminar you’ll hear from some of the biggest names in this new photography world, including Michael Itkoff, editor and chief of Daylight magazine and others from the world of photography and design. Moderator Stella Kramer, a Pulitzer prize-winning photo editor brings these new stars of the online world together to tell you the essentials of how they choose the photography they feature, what the submission guidelines are, and what increases your chances of being selected. They will also discuss other online sites, and the future of photography through the increasing prominence of these online magazines and curated forums.

The burden falls on the minority to explain itself to the majority. 

I am disillusioned by the relationship between the means of production required to produce images, the privileged position of arbiters who determine which images might be seen and moreover elevated– so often those images prized by the establishment reify their position of power in the world and interest in seeing flattering depictions of themselves. 

I am fatigued by the ratio of art that features nude women photographed by men. I’m disgusted that terrorism is understood in wars fought abroad but not behind closed doors on the bodies of women, children and incarcerated men. Both are horrific and unrelenting.

I’m frustrated that a heterosexual narrative is universal and a queer story is specific.  I’m disgusted that white is normal and black is racialized, that men and women are treated as opposites utterly fixed in their polarities.

These are lies. 

The burden remains on the minority to explain itself to the majority.  I am resigned to this inescapable fact.