By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 11 years ago

In the Bay Area? Come see Jos’s art show!

Jos Truitt piece from Awash in BodiesYou may have noticed that Jos’s byline has been missing from the blog recently. That’s because she’s been hard at work–and we’re so excited that soon we can see the fruits of her labor.

Jos’s mixed media prints are appearing, alongside paintings by Colette Standish, in “Awash in Bodies” at San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture. Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid,” Jos’s work features severed and stitched legs and fishtails and explores “moments of variable transformations.” Of her own work, which looks beautiful as well, Standish says, “This is all about sex.” Yes, please!

The opening reception is this Friday and the show runs through January 27th. I can’t make it this weekend, but I’ll be at the artists’ talk on January 4th, so stop by and say “hi!”

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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