Persimmon Blackbridge is a visual artist and writer whose work has focused on lesbian sex and sexual representation, disability culture, and the mental illness system. Her ground-breaking collaborative works include: Still Sane (with Sheila Gilhooly), Drawing the Line and Her Tongue on My Theory (with Kiss & Tell), and From the Inside, Out (with the Self-Advocacy Foundation). She has published two novels: Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies and Prozac Highway, and is working on a third in collaboration with Kiss & Tell member Lizard Jones. This learning-disabled-porn-queen-lesbian-cleaning-lady-sculptor-performer-madwoman has been a courageous and innovative voice, bridging both the queer and cross-disability communities for over two decades.
1998
Archival data
| Subject: | Blackbridge, Persimmon |
| Accession #: | 149 |
| Accession year: | 1998 |
| Artist: | Susan Stewart |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Medium: | black and white photograph |
| Dimensions: | 21.5 x 29cm (W x H) |