Tirza True Latimer

Tirza True Latimer has published work from a lesbian feminist perspective on a range of topics in the fields of visual culture, sexual culture, and criticism. She is coeditor, with Whitney Chadwick, of the anthology The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and the author of Women Together / Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

She also is an independent curator whose recent exhibitions include Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (2005, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley; Frye Museum, Seattle; Jersey Heritage Trust, Isle of Jersey) and Unexpected Developments (2006, PLAySPACE, CCA, San Francisco). She is currently collaborating on a major exhibition about the life and afterlife of Gertrude Stein, which will be organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.

Tirza's teaching, like her research, explores the intersection of visual and sexual cultures. Her interests include the emergence of lesbian and gay visual communities in early twentieth-century Paris, collaborative and participatory art practices in contemporary art, new genres of public art, the visual politics of identity, art activism, and the history of photography. She is cochair of the Queer Caucus for Art, a College Art Association–affiliated society.

photo by Tee A. Corinne