In 2012 I moved into the Ox, a post-Occupy collective at 2nd and Oxford, where, after almost 40 years, I began to put pieces together-pieces of street trash, into assemblages, and pieces of my life I had thought l'd left behind. The Ox gave me space to work, and the Rainbow collective who lived there, the supportive community I needed to understand why I should be so distraught at receiving word that a boyhood friend had died, someone I had not seen for decades-realizing.... admitting to myself, at last, that I had been in love with him. I suspect my story, for those who came sexually of age in the early 50's, will not sound strange. That year, the last of the Ox, ended with a week at SMS, 100 pieces of new art. I use those numbers for titles. Markers, from the year I began my life again at 70.

Susan DiPronio is a multi-disciplinary artist, a published writer of poetry, plays, non-fiction and an award winning analog photographer. They are a recipient The Art for Change Grant and The Transformation Award from The Leeway Foundation for conducting memoir writing workshops with womxn, the houseless & cancer warriors. They founded Pink Hanger Presents, an avant- garde performing arts organization dedicated to giving voice to the unique life experiences of womxn, transgender and genderqueer individuals. They co-founded the online erotic queer magazine Wicked Gay Ways. Their plays, films and photography have appeared in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Toronto, and in India and Chile. They are a longtime juror for QFLIX, and involved in cancer outreach programs to the Queer community.

Involved in the theater and arts communities for decades, Susan collaborated with others in the sex positive collective SEXx art exhibition, Witness- Artists respond to 30 years of the AIDS Pandemic, at The Asian Arts Initiative. Shout, a five week writing and performance memoir workshop for HIV positive

adults, a collaboration between Casa de Duende and Pink Hanger Presents, was conducted as part of the exhibition,. Shout is now available on DVD at the Aids Library of Philadelphia Fight.