Welcome to Filthy Dreams
Well hello there! Welcome to Filthy Dreams, a blog that analyzes culture through a queer lens. Rather than jumping right into new content, we thought it best to introduce ourselves and our aesthetics with our Trash Manifesto
Latest Entries
Reading Andy: Warhol’s Queer Literary Ambitions In ‘Warhol By The Book’
Describing the initial inspiration behind his aggressively and amusingly trying amphetamine-fueled tome a: A Novel in his more palatable The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), Andy Warhol explains, “I think it all started because I was trying to do a book. A friend had written me a note saying … Continue reading
No Longer Hidden Under the Bed: Pacifico Silano’s ‘Tear Sheets’ at Baxter St Camera Club
“Merrymakers dance the night away,” reads the bottom of a magazine sheet that the 2015 Baxter St Workspace Resident Pacifico Silano ‘tore’ from a vast collection of gay porn ephemera for his intricately hung solo exhibition at Baxter St Camera Club’s Chinatown location. Tear Sheets fits like a glove as a title to Pacifico’s practice, which … Continue reading
Art AIDS (Not All) America: The Developing Protest On Lack of Black Representation in ‘Groundbreaking’ Exhibition
Billing itself as “groundbreaking” and “the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States,” Art AIDS America, curated by Jonathan David Katz and Tacoma Museum of Art’s Rock Hushka, has in the past few days come under heavy criticism for its lack … Continue reading
Do You Want To Funk: Disco Death and Roller Requiems in Mark Bradford’s ‘Deimos’
Who would have thought that tossing orange and peach roller-skate wheels across a concrete floor to a disco tune could be so powerful? That a seemingly simple gesture could have such complex conceptual and political consequences? Continue reading
Sex Machine: Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong’s Downtown Erogenous Zone ‘Alone At Last’
Will someone please think of the perverts?! Like John Waters opines in his ode to disappearing deviants, perversion has been sorely lacking in New York for decades. I mean, Times Square–once the sleaze capital of NYC–attracts way more peeping tourists than peeping Toms these days. Where is a good pervert supposed to go? Apparently into … Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Holy Ho-Ho-Ho-Down Xmas Playlist
Ho…Ho…Ho…YEE HAW! Merry Christmas, Mary! Oh come in all ye faithful and warm yourself up with a little nip of nog. What’s that? Did we make a new playlist this year? Why I thought you’d never ask! I know last year we slacked and relied on the strength of our original Xmas playlist but this year, … Continue reading
…And The Rest Is Drag: Key West Art & Historical Society’s ‘What A Drag!’
“I was twenty two years old when I first arrived in Key West, it truly was an amazing place to be. Drinks at Claire’s, tanning on the Pier, playing Pac Man at Delmonico’s and of course, dancing at The Monster. Tea Dance at LaTeDa’s and those boring yet somehow comforting nights at Papillon’s.” –Luc from … Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Gobbledooker Thanksgiving Playlist
Why hello there, hungry Filthy Dreams readers? Do you hear what I hear? That faint gobbling in the distance?! That must mean it’s nearly time for Thanksgiving!! They said it couldn’t be done–a Filthy Dreams Gobbledooker Thanksgiving playlist–but, we did it, creating maybe our most maniacal playlist yet that will just wet your whistle for … Continue reading
Pin-Up Girls: Andrea Mary Marshall and Brigid Berlin’s Feminist Photography
“She lost all her innocence She said, ‘I am not a feminist’ –Hole, “I Think That I Would Die” Examining society’s impossible expectations for women in her essay “Bad Feminist: Take One,” Roxane Gay describes, “…the right way to be a woman is to be thin, to wear makeup, to wear the right kind of … Continue reading
Role Model: Amanda Lear
“Faust was right have no regret Give me your soul and I’ll give you life And all the things you want to get So follow me… –Amanda Lear “Follow Me” Why, hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers! I know, I know…I’ll speak softly. We all had one too many glasses of our World Famous Pumpkin Punch … Continue reading