Dougherty Arts Center
A No Haters Society
RECEIVED Mon., March 2, 2020
Dear Editor,
Now that everyone is comfortable with very young children participating in book readings in public libraries with transgender performers, why can’t our Austin City Hall “The People’s Gallery” exhibit slated to open March 6 offer such contemporary features as the one funded by the San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture depicting in a video a sculpture called Xanda Ibarra’s “Tapatio Cock” where the Latinx artist, dressed as her persona La Chica Boom, wears a strap-on penis formed by a pepper-sauce bottle as revealed on p.49 of the Feb. 28, 2020 Austin Chronicle in its “Qmmunity” column [“Video by Queer Latinx Artist Xandra Ibarra Pulled From San Antonio Art Exhibit”]? Let’s grow our diverse arts community while at the same time promoting socially enlightening displays that mimic ejaculation from a dispenser of pepper-sauce.
Given the happy face on the cover of the December 27, 2019, edition of The Austin Chronicle featuring “Queen of the Night” Louisianna Purchase, I submit we include as a culturally appropriate “display” a Halloween performance in which the scream queen offers “a seven-minute electronic noise track where I burnt a Bible and snapped a nun’s neck and vomited blood on her face” [“Dragula Star Louisianna Purchase Finds Fantasy in the Nightmare,” Arts]. Someday, somewhere we indeed can only hope to be exposed to these types of soul lifting art exhibits that will result in achieving a more tolerant, progressive, and friendly (meaning no haters) society.
Now that everyone is comfortable with very young children participating in book readings in public libraries with transgender performers, why can’t our Austin City Hall “The People’s Gallery” exhibit slated to open March 6 offer such contemporary features as the one funded by the San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture depicting in a video a sculpture called Xanda Ibarra’s “Tapatio Cock” where the Latinx artist, dressed as her persona La Chica Boom, wears a strap-on penis formed by a pepper-sauce bottle as revealed on p.49 of the Feb. 28, 2020 Austin Chronicle in its “Qmmunity” column [“Video by Queer Latinx Artist Xandra Ibarra Pulled From San Antonio Art Exhibit”]? Let’s grow our diverse arts community while at the same time promoting socially enlightening displays that mimic ejaculation from a dispenser of pepper-sauce.
Given the happy face on the cover of the December 27, 2019, edition of The Austin Chronicle featuring “Queen of the Night” Louisianna Purchase, I submit we include as a culturally appropriate “display” a Halloween performance in which the scream queen offers “a seven-minute electronic noise track where I burnt a Bible and snapped a nun’s neck and vomited blood on her face” [“Dragula Star Louisianna Purchase Finds Fantasy in the Nightmare,” Arts]. Someday, somewhere we indeed can only hope to be exposed to these types of soul lifting art exhibits that will result in achieving a more tolerant, progressive, and friendly (meaning no haters) society.
Mark Hey
