... in creating a full-scale installation at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. This would be the largest project she had ever undertaken, and she agreed to the exhi- bition right away. After a number of months, rambling phone conversations, and a trip to Pittsburgh for Greer to see the Mattress Factory space...

..., and Yinka Shonibare, among others. She has written on artists from Andy Warhol to James VanDerZee. From 1991 through 2002, she was a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum, where she co- organized The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion. She curated Greer Lankton’s 1996 exhibition at the Mattress Factory...

..., such as Eric, the neighborhood bully, who grabbed and poked at me, and tried to smother me under a mattress until Lindsay pushed him off and chased him away. Another time, when he was taunting and hurting Lindsay, my mother chased him off with a butcher knife, holding it up to him and saying, “I’m...

... when nénène stacked mattresses & family stories to the ceiling to keep me dry i became really her little girl. but johnnie’s father never left the river — he drowned there. like all colored men they could round up at gunpoint in that part of the delta he was driven...

... clothes; Justin faces the camera as Allen sits at the edge of a mattress 224 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Figure 3. Michael Meads, Allen and Justin: On Marty’s Bed, 1998. Courtesy of the artist with his head in his lap. The genitalia of both young men...

... reared his jaded head. I grabbed Ro-’s ears, shoved my cock up his ass until George’s face came up for breath. (“Square” 89-90) “Real sex” seems to obfuscate the mechanisms of desire more than it illuminates them. In fact, the real experience on “the filthy mattress” gained its...

...” as two factors contribut- ing to the profoundly traumatic impact of incarceration on inmates.46 According to Onuma’s WRA case file, Tanforan authorities did not even issue Onuma a cot and straw-­tick mattress to sleep on until twenty-­five days after his arrival.47...