How’s the Hair?
by Trent Adkins, 1988 Black is back! Not that African Americans had ever really gone anywhere. Hopefully, Black Power was, is, and always will be. But now it’s much nearer […]
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Serving You Realness!
House of Thing is a platform for Black LGBTQ+ arts and culture and a safe space to identify and discover one’s own fabulousness.
2022 LGBTQ State of the Union Address
Angelica Ross, the “Pose” and “American Horror Story” star, delivered the 2022 LGBTQ+ State of the Union address on March 1, 2022. Ross delivered an amazing speech that addressed the […]
ALL Black Lives Matter
Violence against Black trans people is often left out of the national conversation. If you’ve been supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s important to include LGBTQ+ people in your […]
THING: She Knows Who She Is
Excerpts from the Chicago History Museum’s Thing magazine online exhibit at Google Arts & Culture. What is THING? Thing magazine was founded as a platform for black LGBTQ+ life. As such, […]
Thirty Years Ago, a Black Queer Zine Captured the Scene that Birthed House
by Leor Galil for the Chicago Reader, June 2021 – In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of […]
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The Life and Legacy of Thing
by Solveig Nelson for Artforum International, February 2018 – IN 1991, at “SPEW: The Homographic Convergence”— a showcase of queer zines, T-shirts, videotapes, and performance that took place at the […]
The Final ‘Thing’
Owen Keehnen Talks with Zine Pioneer Robert Ford, 1993 The legendary ‘Thing’ magazine, the “she knows who she is” magazine, began in late 1989 as a couple hundred Xeroxes done […]
Robert Ford and THING Magazine Exhibition Reviewed in the NY Times
“…[Y]ou’ll certainly want to drop by the exhibition “THINGS: A Queer Legacy of Graphic Art and Play” at Participant Inc. on the Lower East Side. “Organized by Bradford Nordeen and […]
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