BLOOD OF AURORA (BOA) is a publishing and community platform for women who are ready to express themselves from the depth of who they are. At the intersection of art, writing, embodiment and community, BOA creates spaces where women access their most raw selves. Through a podcast hosting conversations with women from the creative field, a multi-month online writing salon called bodytext, visual storytelling and curatorial work, BOA offers experiences for women to return to their bodies and creativity. Born from over a decade of community building, artistic practice and personal transformation, BOA has taken many forms; a print magazine created by over one hundred women worldwide, online communities spanning hundreds of thousands, intimate IRL events and evolving digital spaces.

About the artist behind BOA

Dóri Varga is a Hungarian artist, mother, poet and curator based in San Diego. Her personal practice spans writing, photography, video and sound, documenting her ongoing process of becoming and working with women who are ready to reveal themselves. Her work centers the body, paying attention to shifts, contradictions and desire, refining the most direct expression of herself.

Before creating BOA, Dóri worked in contemporary art spaces in Budapest and Berlin, collaborating with emerging artists across contemporary art platforms. She has spent over a decade building women-centered communities, publications and platforms that create space for dialogue around womanhood, creativity, motherhood and transformation. Beyond group spaces, Dóri works with women one-to-one, often artists, as they move through change, finding their new emerging voice.