March 7th, 2010 maggie
Today we catch up with our multi-talented queer librarian, Alana!
Tell us about your first Femme Show
As much as I loved performing in the show itself, my favorite part of my first Femme Show experience was all the stuff that led up to the performances: playing femme roadie for the August mini-tour, workshops, and dress rehearsal. I loved getting to spend hours and hours with this smart, fierce, funny, and lovely group.
What have you been up to since October?
I’ve helped with and performed in a couple of TraniWreck shows, but that’s it for performing. I’ve been involved in a variety of nerdy endeavors, though: I finished co-editing a book with two of my favorite librarians, worked on some projects with the Boston Radical Reference Collective, and participated in a couple of terrific reading groups with Artists in Context.
Why do you think the Femme Show is important?
I value how the Femme Show creates a space for its performers to expand notions of what/who “counts” as femme, to have fun and to critique at the same time. I love that members of the cast represent, embody, and complicate femme in really compelling ways. I also appreciate that the show emerges from a specific geographic context, and allows us to represent some aspects of local and regional queerness.
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March 2nd, 2010 maggie
Phyllis and Beatrice want you to know that you can now be a fan of SPPSSM on facebook! Stay up to date for all your etiquette needs!
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March 2nd, 2010 maggie
Katie designed our world-famous logo and has done several of our posters, including the last two Boston shows. Read on to learn more about one of the awesome people who rocks the Femme Show from behind the scenes.
Tell us about your first Femme Show
My first Femme Show, I was attending as an art vendor. I had a bundle of feminist bike shirts, and a bunch of queer comics about safe sex. What captured me immediately was how much of a community we were—even though I was a complete stranger to the cast and crew! I helped out with sound needs, set up chairs, helped other vendors get settled. It was great and totally intoxicating. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 26th, 2010 maggie
Check this out! it is coming up very soon…
Saturday March 13, 2010 7pm
Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour 2010
at Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street Inman Square Cambridge, MA
$10
http://www.truthserum.org
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February 26th, 2010 maggie
Hey, this is cool. Apparently we were part of a trend that’s ending a drought of women touring to Staten Island. We might not all be women but we’re happy to advance the cause!
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February 24th, 2010 maggie
We had a great time at Snug Underground! Many thanks to Gena and the Snug Underground Festival for hosting us at the only venue we’ve ever performed at that has a giant preying mantis in the backyard.
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February 23rd, 2010 maggie
Johnny f’ing Blazes, people! Ze gave me a real trip down memory lane with this one. Makes me feel old just thinking about that first show.
Tell us about your first Femme Show
I performed in the very first Femme Show ever– in the basement of the UCC church in JP. I performed “New Dawn”, a reverse striptease that I had been ready to create for a while and has since served me well, and a dance piece called “Inversation”, which was only performed those two nights. I was fresh out of Oberlin, and still very interested in creating esoteric works that involved “serious dance,” as my mother calls it. The piece was an improvisational dance score that I created with a jazz clarinetist who was very into experimenting with the noises he could get out of his instrument. I think he is the only heterosexual, cisgendered man to have ever performed in The Femme Show. 
We created a recording of my voice saying self-critical phrases about my dancing and my gender. They were fed through a computer program and would happen at certain times during the piece, although I never knew which phrase would come up. I wore a black petticoat (it was The Year of the Petticoat) and a short red satin dress with my fauxhawk. I thought the piece was hilarious, but the audience was mostly silent– except for Maggie, who also found it hilarious. I guess you had to be a dancer to appreciate jokes like “Retrograde!” and “You might want to try inverting that…”
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Today we catch up with our multi-talented queer librarian, Alana!
