Lauren Martin
Lauren Martin is a mixed-race queer feminist artist/writer/activist born and bred in New York City. In addition to her work in the anti-violence movement, she writes and performs about the intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality, exploring the fragmentation, overlapping and performance of identities. Lauren has been creating zines for over a decade, and has been published in a number of anthologies and zine compilations including A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution (St. Martin's Press), Zine Scene (Girl Press), Evolution of a Race Riot, and How to Stage a Coup: an insurrection of the underground liberation army. She is editor of the sassy compilation Hard As Nails: the tough girl comp zine. In 2001 and 2003, Lauren's zines went on tour across North America with Projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project, a traveling exhibition of zines and artist books, and she has also volunteered with the Project as a jury member, tour guide, and local artist lecturer. Lauren believes in spreading art and the DIY (do-it-yourself) ethic to the masses, and to that end, she is co-founder of the NYC Arts & Crafts Skillshare Collective.
Lauren has lectured, led workshops, appeared on panels and performed extensively at numerous conferences, universities, community organizations and events, including OutWrite Writers Conference, At the Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Inaugural Conference, the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, Sarah Lawrence College, Asian Pacific American Students' Conference, Portland State University and Bluestockings Bookstore. Topics have ranged from queer domestic violence to self-determination through alternative media to taking feminist organizations and movements to task for their separatist tendencies. All of her work, whether it be creative, theoretical or grassroots organizing, is informed by a feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-oppression framework and a commitment to social justice.
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