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  • Organized by Lydia McCarthy

    The exhibit will run from Sep 13-Dec 6, 2025

    • Opening Reception: September 13, 5-7pm

    • Viewing Hours: First Friday of the month, 4-6pm

    Artists include:
    Ayanna Dozier
    Sophia Frydman
    Nicholas Grafia
    Stephanie Hanes
    Coco Klockner
    Tatiana Kronberg
    Lydia McCarthy
    Sonja Nilsson
    Miriam Radwan
    Jordan Strafer

    This exhibition brings together 10 artists who excavate conscious and unconscious aspects of the ‘feminine’ through an embrace of the abject. In drawing, sculpture, photography and video, they push against and transgress borders of materiality, gender and sexuality.  

    The cultural formation of femininity is structurally linked with the process of pathologizing, demonizing, sexualizing, and relegating any expression of it to the realm of the monstrous. From ancient Greek mythology to Charcot’s images of hysterical women in the mid-19th century, from 1970s horrotica to the present day Real Housewives, it is performed, exaggerated and turned into a spectacle that is to be both feared and consumed. Gender is central in these depictions, as any body that threatens the stability of masculinity’s monolithic logic is rendered non-human. This threat may come in the form of perversion, body modification, death, bodily excretions or any act deemed as ‘immoral’. Feminized bodies are cast as the monster–the witch, the evil temptress, the bleeding wound, the castrator–with their gender as justification for their subjugation. This image is in sharp contrast to the depiction of the sane, rational detachment of cisgender male-ness at the center of a misogynist, patriarchal system.

    Each of these artists resist normative conceptions of gender and embrace the collapse of meaning possible through the monstrous-feminine, ultimately reclaiming their agency, re-defining their ‘otherness’ and disturbing order. 

    Please direct all inquiries to: lydia.anne.mccarthy@gmail.com

    • Dates: June 22, July 13, August 3, August 24, September 14

    • Time: All sessions are held on Sunday afternoons from 12-2:30 pm EST

    • Access: ASL + automated captioning provided

    • Cost: $30 (reduced/member), $60 (general), $85 (supporter) (save more than 30% when you enroll in the entire five-part series)

    • CE credits: Available for all 5 classes (11.25 total, 2.25 per class; more info here)

      • Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Therapists, and Physicians: available at the General and Supporter Rate only

      • New York Peer Specialists: available at all price tiers, for no additional cost


      IDHA’s 2025 training series, Tending the Future of Care: Practices & Possibilities for Transformative Mental Health, is for those interested in reshaping and reimagining what mental health care can look like at the edge of collapse – and committed to creating a more liberatory future together. Whether you're working in clinical spaces, organizing communities, supporting loved ones, or navigating your own lived experience, this space offers grounding, practical tools, and the chance to connect with others committed to challenging the status quo.

      The landscape of care is under strain – and many of us are feeling the weight of it. Amid the erosion of public health infrastructure, the expansion of carceral mental health practices, and the stress of our sociopolitical conditions, those on the frontlines of care are stretched thin, facing burnout with few places to turn for support. The role of mental health professionals is increasingly contested – caught between systems of harm and aspirations for healing. Dominant models offer few answers, often reducing suffering to symptoms and prescribing narrow solutions to the layered realities people are living through.

      This series offers frameworks, strategies, and practices to help you deepen your capacity – not just to navigate the crises of our time, but to support others in ways that are both personally sustaining and collectively transformative. Grounded in lessons from history, our faculty will draw on the wisdom of those who have worked to transform mental health care, both within and beyond systems. Rather than seeking certainty or closure, we will strengthen our ability to stay with the unknown and cultivate healing approaches that are values-aligned and responsive.

      Classes will be participatory and collaborative, rooted in the belief that no single expert holds the answers – we hold them together. We’ll build on the knowledge in the room, weaving insights from a range of disciplines, movements, and lived experiences. This five-part series is a space to replenish, reconnect, and remember that another way of providing care is not only possible – it’s already in motion.

If you have something you’d like us to share with our community, reach out to Jamie Cunningham.