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Transgender Author/Artist Shannon Belthor at In Other Words Tonight

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Transgender Author/Artist Shannon Belthor at In Other Words Tonight
Just Out
by Ryan Prado
25 August, 2010


http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21082


Star columnist Nick Mattos pontificated grandly in the latest issue of Just Out on transgender author and artist Shannon Belthor's impending reading tonight at In Other Words Books and Resources, as did he herald the book from which she'll be reading, Shape-shifter: An Awakening on the Paths of Art and Gender.

"Over the course of 25 years working in an array of media, Belthor has captured an astonishing journey from an almost aggressive density and physicality into a formless, spiritual state of being. Evoking at turns poet Mary Oliver's breathless transcendentalism and painter Sabrina Ward Harrison's joyous self-acceptance, Belthor's work is as exuberant as a long-awaited homecoming—and with her new book, the artist has put that homecoming into words
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