The Secret Life of Antlered Girls

Come on up to MassMoCA if you’re free. It’s Miss Rockaway’s first art project in a museum!

Here are some pictures Tod Seelie took of the build going on there

It feels funny to say it, but it’s true, I’m really glad to come home after traveling for so long. I can’t wait to help build the massmoca show and I’m excited not to be scared for my safety. In the DR it’s impossible to walk down the street or be in public anywhere for that matter without someone mean-mugging you like crazy. you get an exorbitant number of nasty looks from local men. i hear this is called “guapa” which actually means handsome but refers to an angry girl here. i dunno. this may be something that happens to everyone, or specifically to us as tourists/foreigners. also women are fair game for sexual harassment and cat-calling and people are totally shocked if you get mad about it. there are lots of things about latino machismo which i find hard to stomach, though i find machismo repulsive in all its locations. of course getting shot at and robbed while already struggling with money, with impunity, has a way of disrupting one’s sense of safety as well.