Natalie Haddad

Queer Elders — 9 min read Carmelita Tropicana (photo Carlos David, courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June. When the off-Broadway theater Soho Rep moved from its longtime Tribeca space in 2024, it went out with a bang. The final show at the location, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, was a fitting tribute to its history as a downtown theater hub.

For the past three decades, pioneering gender and queer theorist Jack Halberstam has redefined his fields of study through unconventional perspectives and cultural forms — as he puts it, “tell[ing] stories slightly differently than the way they’ve been told in the past.” In his seminal 1998 book Female Masculinity, he argued for masculinity in people other than cis men as a category all its own rather than a quality inherent to “maleness.” Since then, he has examined the myriad ways that...

Feature — 6 min read Daniel Higgs, “Advance the Truth about God” (2010), ink on paper, in Folded, an exhibition curated by Bill Nace and Kim Gordon (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) Before music was on her radar, Kim Gordon was a visual artist. The multitalented creator, best known as co-founder of the influential indie rock band Sonic Youth, moved to New York in 1980 to pursue an art career after earning her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.