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“Transcend Classification through Multiplicity”: Books, Postcards, Posters, and Multiples


In Susan Silton: Diving into the Wreck, edited by Andy Campbell. Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, 2026. 

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What are you here for?: Nayland Blake as Artist, Writer, Curator, and Connector


In No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, edited by Jamillah James. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2026. 

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Millie Wilson: Miss World

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Students in Lesbos: A Conversation

Beatriz Cortez, Richard Hawkins, Kang Seung Lee, and Jess Rath, moderated by David Evans Frantz

In Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, edited by David Evans Frantz and Amy Powell. Krannert Art Museum and Inventory Press, 2025. 

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Axis Mundo: Constellations and Connections

Co-authored with C. Ondine Chavoya

In A Handbook to Latinx Art, edited by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales.  University of California Press, 2025. 
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Introduction: Welcome to the Butch Gardens School of Art

Co-authored with C. Ondine Chavoya

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Does a Mustache Make a Man?: Teddy Sandoval and Gay Illustration


In Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, edited by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz. Independent Curators International, Inventory Press, Vincent Price Art Museum, Williams College Museum of Art, 2024. 

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Sick Jokes, Blasphemous Rumors, and Fabulous Antics: West Coast Artists Respond to AIDS


In For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, edited by Isabel Casso and Jill Dawsey. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2024. 
Entries

#21: Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Light, 1970
#34: Ariana Aguilar in The Gay Essay and Homeboy Beautiful, 1970

#73: Tobaron Waxman, Fear of a Bearded Planet, 2007–present


In Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, edited by David Evans Frantz, Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas. Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA) and Hirmer Publishers, 2023. 

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Reverence in Blue


In Roberto Gil de Montes: Reverence in Blue. Kurimanzutto, New York, 2023. 

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Conversation with Sille Storihle


In The Stonewall Nation, edited by Sille Storihle. Torpedo Press, 2023. 
Entries

Cahuilla Form
Aged Logic and Artifacts
End of the Trail, Triumph of the Spirit
Manifesto
Trek
Enthnopoly
Road Signs


In Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock, edited by David Evans Frantz and Christine Giles. Palm Springs Art Museum and Hirmer Verlag, 2020. 

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Killjoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles’ Queer Art and Activist Histories


In Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Lesbian Feminist Hauntings and Queer Direct-Action Aesthetics, edited by Cait McKinny and Allyson Mitchell.  University of British Columbia Press and Art Gallery of York University, 2019. 
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Axis Mundo: Constellations and Connections

Co-authored with C. Ondine Chavoya

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Chicano Chic: Fashion/Costume/Play


Entries

Skot Armstrong
Elsa Flores
Robert Lambert 
Mundo Meza
Richard Nieblas
Albert Sanchez


In Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., edited by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz with Macarena Gómez-Barris. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and DelMonico Books • Prestel, 2017. 

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Chrome Roses


In Die Kränken: Sprayed with Tear, edited by David Evans Frantz. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 2017. 

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Without Scruple or Restraint: Control Through Collage


In Cock, Paper, Scissors, edited by David Evans Frantz, Lucas Hilderbrand, and Kayleigh Perkov. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2016. 

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