Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan Win $30K Award of Distinction
Since 1989, Winnipeg duo’s breakthrough feminist art includes We're Talking Vulva, Lesbian National Parks and Services, and A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. Photo: Sonja Scharf.
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. Photo: Sonja Scharf.
Leah Sandals is a writer and editor based in Toronto. Her arts journalism has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post and Globe and Mail, among other publications, and her creative work has been published in Prism, Room and Freefall. She can be reached via leahsandals.ca.
In 1997, an agency refused to display Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan’s “One Gay City” posters in bus shelters. Now they’re part of the show “One Queer City”