Author: KCF
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Book Launch: TQBA
Kevin Carrel Footer launches his new photo book “TQBA: Tango Queer Buenos Aires” on 7 December 2024 in Buenos Aires.
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Virgin of the High Waters
Audio members, listen here: When the river started to rise, they busied themselves getting everything as high up as they could. They threw ropes over the rafters and hoisted furniture into the air. A dining room table and its chairs became an elaborate swaying chandelier. They drove the livestock to the highest part of this…
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A Freer Way to Tango
Audio members, listen here: From the introduction to my new book “TQBA: Tango Queer Buenos Aires”: Think of these photos as part of a dance. Where you see two people, count three. Taking photographs, I was not an outsider looking in but rather an insider looking at oneself in a mirror. The joy and ecstasy…
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Such Splendid Creatures
Audio members, listen here: Thank you for your letter. I am well. It has been a trying time. But now the storm has passed and the detritus left in its wake is treasure. I reap the richness now. Scattered seeds are punching up through the hard soil. Their birth was troubled — but isn’t it…
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Write Thank-you Notes
Audio Members, listen here: Today is my mom’s birthday. If she were alive today, she would be 95. She lived a long, rich life even if most of the last decade was bittersweet due to mental deterioration. However, she never lost her laugh and her good cheer. Even when she didn’t remember who I was,…
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Hot Tango
Audio Members, listen here: At 13:53hs the first tender flame appeared. The tell-tale fizzling sound that had been overlooked repeatedly by repair crews sent into the below-sidewalk chamber to make other, more-urgent repairs at last ignited the paper wrappings of someone’s forgotten lunch left in flagrant disregard of company regulations and burst into flame. Within…
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Plastic Wrapped
Let me read it to you! Premium members have access to the audio version. Not a member yet? Become a member here > They wrapped me in cellophane and set me in the middle of the plaza where I waited while the sun and rain eroded me and pigeons defecated on my head. People asked…
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Plastic Wrapped (premium)
Audio Members, listen here: They wrapped me in cellophane and set me in the middle of the plaza where I waited while the sun and rain eroded me and pigeons defecated on my head. People asked me what was I waiting for. Through the plastic I shouted that I needed someone to release me. Their…
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The Mighty River
Let me read it to you! Premium members have access to the audio version. Not a member yet? Become a member here > It is a wonder in this world of satellites and adventurers probing every last corner of the planet that the upper stretches of the Zagayón River remain as remote and mysterious as…