May 15th, 2008 maggie
Attention New York:
Go see Elizabeth Whitney in a A Day Without Sunshine this weekend!
Emerging Artists Theatre  (www.eatheatre.org)
Sunday, May 18th
4:00pm $10
Roy Arias Theatre Center
300 W. 43rd St. 5th Floor
NYC
A Day Without Sunshine
Florida, 1977. The road to Damascus is paved with orange pulp, Anita sings campy songs of salvation, and the children are finally saved… or are they?
Written and performed by Elizabeth Whitney; Directed by Mark Finley*
Q&A
This fresh comedy is set in a spiritual workshop where our host channels a Swami to answer our questions . . .is there a god? . . .paper or plastic? . . .we get hilarious pity answers and visits from more folks on the other side.
Written and performed by McNeely Myers; Directed by Maura Hanlon
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May 15th, 2008 Jenn
In the last couple of months I have come to feel much more conscious of my femme identity – not necessarily because of the clothes that I wear, but because of how much skin I show and what skin I expose.
Currently I am covered in lesions of an unknown nature to my Western doctor. Some of them are small and some of them are quite large and cannot be hidden. At first I was terribly ashamed of them, trying to cover them up by hiding the parts of my body that they’re on. But now that almost all of my body is covered with these lesions, it’s difficult to hide them. And soon it will be impossible to hide. With the warm weather about to arrive, I do not want to sacrifice ample opportunity to have fun in short skirts and skimpy tops. So what’s a femme to do but to tackle the sites of shame that make me want to hide underneath my clothing?
In turning to my disability**/queer/femme politics, I have a lot to use to take on my body shame. It’s a bit of a matrix, a puzzle of politics and ideologies mixed together. So when starting to become conscious of this riddle it’s daunting to know where to begin. I begin with asking myself, what do I actually have to be ashamed of? I haven’t quite unravelled this answer yet but I have some guesses and sources to pull from. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 14th, 2008 maggie
Remember how Target wanted me to buy femme from them?
Myspace has some funny ads, too:
Celebrity look alikes: Do you look like Violent Femmes?
Hot La Femme Dresses
La Femme style 12603 Free Shipping. Low Price Guarantee. www.TheRedCarpetProm.com
Myspace also wants us to find love: femme-femme love (based on the videos and pictures) at a True.com and butch-femme love at butchfemmematchmaker.com It’s nice that they understand that femmes date all kinds of people. Facebook wants me to be wooed by five guys in five minutes.
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May 13th, 2008 maggie
I’ve never been good at cutting my nails. Most of my life I’ve just clipped them as short as possible, then filled the rough edges and been done with it. Now, as discussed here, I’ve been growing them out and it feels like I’m entering new terrain in this world of femininity. I thought I had reached the frontier, but I just discovered that beyond these mountains I carry in my heart are plains that stretch forever and dark forests and hidden rivers. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 9th, 2008 Sassafras
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Last week I was rereading S/he and this week i got to thinking of one of my favorite quotes ever about femmes and queer femininity. It’s from the anthology “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity” which was edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri
“Femme might be describd as ‘femininity gone wrong’ – bitch, slut, nag, whore, cougar, dyke, or brazen hussy. Femme is the trappings of femininity gone awry, gone to town, gone to the dogs. Femininity is a demand placed on female bodies and femme is the danger of a body read female or inappropriately feminine. We are not good girls- perhaps we are not girls at all.”
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May 8th, 2008 maggie
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Come visit the Femme Show table at Youth Pride on the Boston Common this Saturday! It will be a great day to cheer on the youth, see some performances, and enjoy beautiful weather, because as my old comrade-in-arms used to say, “it doesn’t rain on queer youth.”
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