Don't Fuck With Betty Tompkins
Spring, 2020
From anti-porn feminists to the French government to Instagram, Tompkins has been fighting censorship- and paving the way to free sexual expression- for nearly 50 years“I was an accidental dissident.” Betty Tompkins is talking about her rocky beginnings in the New York art world of the early 1970s. Although she may not have set out to become a feminist renegade, her comment comes across as a surprising understatement, given that her entire practice has been a case study in the assertion of free...
