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- ↑ 'Funhouse Explores Mortal Passageways' by Zan Dubin, Los Angeles Times, ART NEWS, July 9, 1989
- ↑ 'Sex and Technology' by Jacki Apple, Artweek, Mar 15, 1990, page 17
- ↑ TIME Magazine, Jan 10, 1994, front cover.
- ↑ How AIDS Activists Queered Christmas by Jackson Davidow, X-TRA Online, Dec 2020
- ↑ Art Criticism and the Pandemic II: Wearing Out, Paul Mellon Centre, UK, May 6, 2021. Jackson Davidow, panelist, discussion of Stiff Sheets performance action (1989)
- ↑ Travel Watch, TIME Magazine, Asia Edition Apr 6, 1998, page 4
- ↑ The Thais That Bind by Andrew Marshall, TIME Magazine, Asia Edition Mar 14, 2005, page 47.
- ↑ 'Utopia Guide to...' series, Lulu; China (2005, 2006); Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam (2005, 2006); Japan, Korea, Taiwan (2006); Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia (2006); Asia (2006); Thailand (2006, 2007); South Korea (2007); Indonesia (2007); Malaysia (2007); Singapore (2007); Taiwan (2007), Japan (2007)
- ↑ Swank Style by Matthew Link, Desert Outlook magazine, Sep 2014, pages 22-24.
- ↑ 23andMe
