Riley Yaxley Archives - Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/byline/riley-yaxley/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:33:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-Sixty_Logo_Icon_Green-32x32.png Riley Yaxley Archives - Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/byline/riley-yaxley/ 32 32 Mountain Call: An Interview with Ivan David Ng and Hai-Wen Lin https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/mountain-call-an-interview-with-ivan-david-ng-and-hai-wen-lin/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:25:59 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74133 Two Hakka artists discuss the origins of their friendship and artistic collaboration and reflect on cultural mythologies of the sky and the folk art practices that inspire their work.

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]]> Una toxina amenaza, pero también invita https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/una-toxina-amenaza-pero-tambien-invita/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:08:35 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73197 En la última exposición del artista agustine zegers en la Galería 400, el olor a petróleo evoca recuerdos y emociones para explorar nuestra paradójica ternura hacia las toxinas creadas por el hombre.

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]]> A Sticky End https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-sticky-end/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72788 In an exhibition at Roots & Culture, artists Kitty Rauth and Ále Campos compare histories of sunken cruise ships and gay cruising culture to interrogate the morality of our never-ending search for pleasurable experiences.

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]]> A toxin threatens, but it also beckons https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-toxin-threatens-but-it-also-beckons/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=71669 In scent artist agustine zegers’ latest exhibition at Gallery 400, the smell of petroleum summons memory and emotion to explore our paradoxical tenderness for man-made toxins.

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]]> The Risky Sex, or Why I’m Befriending Men https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-risky-sex-or-why-im-befriending-men/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=71168 In her search for connection, a woman dares to ask: Are men capable of friendship?

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]]> Your Portrait, My Love https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/your-portrait-my-love/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=69758 Portraits of friends and lovers are places for identification, emulation, and playful invention in an epistolary response to Wrightwood 659's exhibition "The First Homosexuals."

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]]> I am whispering to you https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/i-am-whispering-to-you/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=66958 The point at which dances, candles, hymns, shrines, all charged with varied meanings converge and become something new. How did this happen? What has changed?

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]]> Fucking Like a Girl https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/fucking-like-a-girl/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=66970 Is it possible to fuck oneself into girlhood? Vera Blossom's debut essay collection offers an answer.

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]]> Quicker Than a Ray of Light, Then Gone https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/quicker-than-a-ray-of-light-then-gone/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:34:20 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=61796 During a night of performances at the historic PS1 Close House in Iowa City, five artists questioned the slipperiness of identity through a blend of ballet and bodybuilding; protest; green screen suits and wigs; Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A."; and augmented reality filters.

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]]> A Miserable Party https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-miserable-party/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:37:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=60841 riley yaxley pens an elegant, elegiac, and heartbreaking ode to the dissolution of a relationship, the perils of love, trans womanhood, and the grace that is found through writing the self.

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]]> Consider a Disappearance https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/afterimage-a-response-to-ruby-ques-consider-a-disappearance/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=60792 riley yaxley explores Ruby Que's multifaceted practice through their exhibition Consider a Disappearance, an interplay between technology and light, longing and home, and the sentimentality of small moments in life.

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]]> An Angel With Her Wings https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/an-angel-with-her-wings/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:23:50 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=59069 What does the TRAP do to a cishet social order? What does a TRAP do with replica bodies and the expectations that come with genitals? Ava Wanbli's "Sertraline Dolls" had something to say.

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]]> Celeste Siempre Será La Chica Alt https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/celeste-simpre-sera-la-chica-alt/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:12:35 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=58082 El papel de espectador y voyeur viene naturalmente. Observamos ansiosamente. Ella está despreocupada. Ella es Celeste.

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]]> CELESTE WILL ALWAYS BE THE ALT GIRL https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/celeste-will-always-be-the-alt-girl/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:09:37 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=57859 A question from their mother. A book of their grandparents’ love letters. An imprint of their face on a makeup wipe. Performer and drag artist Ále Campos reflects on their journey as Celeste.

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]]> The Tongue https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-tongue/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:57:48 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=57421 What does theft have to do with desire? The smallest chocolates with the greatest evils? Sometimes, "I want you" is not enough, then too much.

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]]> Too Much Sentimentality https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/too-much-sentimentality/ Mon, 01 May 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=54808 In the midst of the pandemic and appendicitis, Riley Yaxley reflects on navel-gazing, sentimentality, and freeing yourself through revealing yourself.

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]]> The Lovers https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-lovers-prayer/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:19:25 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=52440 Inspired by Clarice Lispector's novel, 'An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures,' Riley Yaxley dedicates a prayer to a past lover.

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]]> Penetrate Me https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/penetrate-me/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:45:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=50411 Inspired by McKenzie Wark's autobiography, "Reverse Cowgirl," Riley Yaxley writes a personal narrative about penetration, transformation, and the back of a 2004 Camry.

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]]> The Wound https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-wound/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:15:01 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=48565 Inspired by the book 'An Apartment on Venus' by Paul B. Preciado, Riley Yaxley reflects on and writes about the moments of desire, confusion, and self discovery that have shaped their trans identity.

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]]> In My Mother’s House There Is Still God: A Response to the Film ‘to render the infinite’ https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-my-mothers-house-there-is-still-god-a-response-to-to-render-the-infinite/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:58:52 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=47526 A lyrical essay inspired by different characters from 'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry and in response to the film 'to render the infinte' by zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal.

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]]> A Mean, Feline Person https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-mean-feline-person/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:28:31 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=46321 Tattoos, Louise Bourgeois, and memories of a lover are examined in this essay about the struggle to communicate feelings in a relationship.

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]]> Do I Want to Be A Mother? https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/do-i-want-to-be-a-mother/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:02:20 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=44640 I read books about mothers because I want to understand motherhood. I read books about mothers because I’m trying to answer this question for myself: Do I want to be a mother?

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]]> Cherubim https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/cherubim/ Mon, 31 May 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=42329 "I lay in bed and imagine him reading the line, 'I want a man to love me so much he murders me. I want to die because I’m loved too much for him to tolerate my existence.'"

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