My work explores the relationship of fandom and mass media to our identities, with the goal of building those identities into physical communities–communities in which we can organize collectively as neighbors and workers. As someone who has been out as queer since I was a teen and living as a transgender man for over a decade, fan communities saved my life; they allowed me to cosplay the gender expressions I badly needed. Cosplay interlaces with clown and drag in my experiments as the character Sexual Gumby. My collage and poetry work are cut-ups from my life as a “fujoshi,” a lover of gay comics. The city and queer hirstory are sacred to me. I use he/hir pronouns as a tribute to Leslie Feinberg. I have supported tenants and art workers in my neighborhood for over a decade, and I consider my work in collective with any social or spiritual practice that agitates for the abolition of rent and gender. I fight for accessible, free, and communal space to make art.
Ø.K. Fox 