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Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s collaborative project-based, socially enraged practice is an extension of feminist spaces and queer inquiry, actively building community and nurturing alternative forms of information distribution. She is co-founder of queer and feminist journal LTTR; MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project; the touring musical act MEN; and General Sisters, a neighborhood grocery store. She has presented work at the Jewish Museum, New York (2016); Tensta Konsthall, Sweden (2015); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2013); Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2010); New Museum, New York (2009); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2008). She received her BA from Oberlin College and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2007.

Plants poke out of a top of a pot on a stove.
Learning
By Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Pleasure Pigs

Ginger Brooks Takahashi explores pleasure-centered research around foraging, cooking, and their connection to place.

We Must Make Queer Praxis Accessible

“Queering design engages the space of (visual) consumption, thinking outside of what is perceived to be possible and repositions relationships between self/subject/object and desire,” writes artist and educator Ginger Takahashi Brooks, “causing breaks in the chain of hegemonic thought. “