ONE Archives

⛓️ONE Archives is excited to welcome multidisciplinary artist Panteha Abareshi for a presentation on her practice and research materials. Abareshi will guide the audience through a lecture around the sick/Crip body’s representation as a s*x object. Her lecture will be followed up by a conversation with NEED ME curator Quetzal Arévalo before audience Q & A.

DATE: June 11, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
WHERE: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries 909 W Adams Blvd.

🩸Panteha Abareshi’s (b. 1999) artistic practice is rooted in their existence as a chronically ill/disabled body contending with multiple medical illnesses, at the foundation of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia- a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain and bodily deterioration, both of which increase with age.Their work explores the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored, constantly examined, and made to feel like a specimen, critically interrogating the sick/disabled body’s place within medical institutions.

Currently, Abareshi is focusing on the disabled body as fe**sh object, and conducting research into disabled s*xuality, and its representations within po*******hy and fe**sh materials.

💉This program is offered in association with the exhibition NEED ME, open through June 27.

Announcing our 2026 ***rZineFest vendors & performers! We're very excited to have an all-q***r/trans lineup of artists, creatives, zinemakers, and collectives at LAQZF for our inaugural event.

The LA Q***r Zine Fest, presented by and , is a one-day event celebrating q***r and trans zinemakers, small publishers, writers, and artists. The event features 50+ vendors, live performances by q***r musicians and drag artists, a workshop hosted by ONE Institute, and a s*xy q***r grill!

RSVP at the link in bio!

🗓 Sunday, May 17 ⏰ 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
📍 ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007

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Join us for L.A. Q***r Zine Fest, presented by and .

***rZineFest celebrates q***r and trans zinemakers, artists, performers, writers, and community through vendor tabling, live performances, hands-on activities, food, and opportunities to engage with q***r history and creative practice.

What to expect:
✨ 50+ q***r and trans vendors
✨ zines, prints, small-press publications, art, and handmade goods
✨ drag by , , and Pestilence
✨ live music by and
✨ poetry open mic
✨ zine-making workshop led by
✨ food, drinks, and community

🗓 Sunday, May 17
⏰ 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
📍 ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007

🎟 RSVP via Eventbrite at the link in bio.

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T*TS OUT FOT EFRAIN JOHN GONZALEZ!!!
Pics so hot 🥵 you’ll have to see the real deal this Saturday

Saturday, May 2 at 4 pm: don’t miss the chance to meet photographer Efrain John Gonzalez at the archive! He will be sharing his decades-long practice of documenting the body piercing community and other escapades from the SM scene in New York City and Beyond. A lecture by Gonzalez will be followed by a generous Q & A.

RSVP

Efrain John Gonzalez (b. 1952) is a photographic artist who has documented the unusual, the erotic, the unique, the wild and slightly crazy. Based in Park-Slope, Brooklyn, he is an internationally published photographer who has been traveling down dark and mysterious paths for the past 40 years. Through his mostly film-based practice of black and white and Kodachrome photography, he has created a rare historical archive of original work, candid photographs of underground clubs, transness, tattoo and body modification events, q***r history, nightlife, political gatherings, and leather and fe**sh cultures.

Photographs featured:

My First Piercing on 16th and 8th Ave, 1980
Folsom St E 13th St, c. 1990
Folsom St E 13th St. (man in sunglasses), c. 1990
Gay Pride March, 1995
Living in Leather, 1989
Fakir Musafar at Living in Leather, 1989
Veronica Vera at a Marc Steven Party, 1982

🚨DON’T MISS FIRST TIME IN LOS ANGELES!!! 🚨

✨Saturday, May 2 at 4 pm
🩸Link in bio to RSVP

ONE is delighted to host Efrain John Gonzalez!!!
He will be sharing his decades-long practice of documenting the body piercing community and other escapades from the SM scene in New York City and beyond. This is the first, and perhaps only, time that Gonzalez will be lecturing in Los Angeles.

Efrain John Gonzalez (b. 1952) is a photographer who documents the unusual, the erotic, the unique, the wild and slightly crazy, from the world of body modifications to the underground universe of radical S*M. Based in Park-Slope, Brooklyn, he is an internationally published photographer. Through his mostly film-based practice of black and white and Kodachrome photography, he has amassed an archive of thousands of images of underground clubs, transness, tattoo and body modification events, q***r history, nightlife, political gatherings, and leather and fe**sh cultures.

Live from our processing archivist’s desk: a collectable card from the 1998 D**e March in Los Angeles. Who here has the full set?

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🚨NEXT THURSDAY 🚨 APRIL 23 at 4pm PT/ 7 pm ET join ONE Archives artist-in-residence Noorann Matties on a virtual studio tour from her home-studio in Philadelphia. Matties will discuss her research and process working on her new body of work featured in NEED ME, or, (de)mystifying the myth of the modern primitive, and share her current projects. There will be ample time for audience participation discussing interdisciplinary practice involving memory, craft, abstraction, and self-imagery.

This will be our only virtual offering for and a fantastic way to hear from the artist and curator if you can’t travel for the show.

RSVP LINK W/ ZOOM IN BIO

Noorann Matties (b. 1994) is an artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work aims to translate the wall of sound inside via the systematic cataloging and organization of imagery surrounding wish-fulfillment, fantasy, memory, and personal mythology. Harnessing the meditative processes of beadwork and analog photography she channels a deeper truth through the medium of flow state.