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Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, performer, independent curator, and interdisciplinary artist in Portland. She believes in the power of creativity to effect social change and explore difficult issues. But social change begins at home, with our personal lives and individual art practices.

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ABOUT MISS BROWN
Author of A Compendium of Miniatures, Tiffany is an editor at PLAZM magazine and directs the non-profit project 2GQ for 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts. Her work has been presented by PICA, Portland Center Stage, Performance Works NW, Wordstock, PNCA, Pacific University, Powell’s City of Books, and the Enteractive Language Festival, among others. Her writing appears in numerous books and anthologies, and in such periodicals as Bookforum, Portland Monthly, Wired, Tin House, Bust, and forthcoming in Oregon Humanities.

A non-faculty mentor for the Pacific Northwest College of Arts’ new MFA in Visual Studies, Tiffany was certified in Mikhail Chekhov Technique at the University of California, Berkeley, from which she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Dramatic Art. She earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.

CREATIVE WHORING at the back room

Earlier this year, Plazm editors and art director Jon Raymond, Josh Berger, and I were guests at Portland's lovely art discussion/food/music ritual, the back room, presently curated by Stephanie Snyder of the Cooley Gallery at Reed College. Each of us wrote an essay for the evening's chapbook, The Wife, the Mistress, and the Prostitute, designed by Plazm and published by the back room. My piece is about whoring one's creativity out.

So I suggested to Josh that we three wear t-shirts reading "WHORE" whilst being interviewed. He suggested that we have "WHORE" badges/buttons made instead -- which was fabulous, since this way the audience got to identify themselves as whores along with us.

It was quite the occasion... and now you too can experience the Whore love. Buy your book and "whore" button at Plazm.com.

To hear the conversation (and do keep in mind it's a small group of wine-swilling, feasting artpeople, rather than a Fresh Air sort of thing) check out the "documents" section of the back room website. Our evening featured Synder as interviewer, the mouthwateringly delightful Tastebud as providers of provender, and Tara Jane O'Neil as guest musician.