September 30th, 2008 maggie
We’ve got three Preview Performances coming up with some of our favorite people in Boston.
Traniwreck on Saturday, October 4: This is going to be huge. There’s never enough queer stuff on Saturday nights, so come out and support!
Love Your Body Day with Big Moves on Tuesday, October 7: An art show and opening reception. Food, guitars, and dancing ladies.
and Gender Crash Open Mic on Thursday, October 9: I am so honored that we get to be part of one of the last few Gender Crash events.
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September 21st, 2008 maggie
The Femme Show is looking for Vendors!? Sell your stuff to audience members at one of Boston’s premiere queer entertainment events. The Femme Show is a revue of performance art, dance, drag and burlesque about queer femme identity.
After a whirlwind summer tour, we are returning to our Boston roots on October 10 & 11 at The Cambridge Family YMCA Theater in Central Square. We sold-out shows in Jamaica Plain in 2007 and were featured in Bay Windows, the Improper Bostonian, and the Boston Phoenix. We are expecting as many as 300 people and are thrilled to give you an opportunity to reach a captive audience. Our audience is fashion forward and interested in supporting local business and local artists.
$40 gets you 1/2 of a 10 foot rectangular table and admission to the show for two nights. You’ll be able to sell before and after the show and during intermission. Email info at the femmeshow dot com for info.
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September 21st, 2008 maggie
Volunteers needed!
See the show for free! You scratch our back and we’ll scratch yours, ok?
After party Hosts (Friday only): Help decorate, set up, and get folks talking and mingling at the MadFemmePride (www.madfemmepride.org) sponsored after-party.
Ushers and merch: sell tickets, pass out programs, circulate the mailing list, sell merch.
Friday volunteers arrive at 6 PM for set up.
Saturday volunteers arrive at 7 PM and stay after the show to clean up.
Stagehands: Want to see what really goes on behind the scenes? We need folks to help with props and keeping communication flowing backstage. No theater or technical experience needed. Must be available mid afternoon on Friday, October 10 for rehearsal as well as for both shows.
Interested? Email volunteers at the femmeshow dot com. Last year these slots filled up fast, so don’t wait!
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September 20th, 2008 Sassafras
It’s been a busy weekend here filled with lots of work in the home office, writing, planning, grocery shopping, extracting a few fall clothes from “the trenches,” and nyc’s own circus amok performing in our neighborhood. The show was fantastic, and as we were leaving I started to think about how *seen* I felt there in this group of other freaks. I often feel like my queerness is invisible which as I’ve talked about before has been quite the culture shock over the past several years after living as a FTM for so long and being very visibly queer. While there Kestryl and I got to talk with some dear friends who we don’t see often, and they mentioned that they had been showing pictures of us to some guests last night and been trying to explain us, but it was hard :) It was so lovely to have our complexity as individuals and as a couple seen.
Anyway, the whole wonderful fall afternoon watching the circus with the dog on my lap and surrounded by talented freaky people got me thinking about visibility, and community and the places where I as a genderqueer/trans, femme, freak feel seen and then all of those places like every other day in our neighborhood, or on the subway where I don’t. So I thought I would ask all of you, where do you feel seen, and what does being visible in that space mean to you?
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September 18th, 2008 maggie
Here’s some shots from our workshop rehearsals, taken by the awesome Steph Plourde-Simard.
- In today’s tough economy, the job of performing has been outsourced to blow up dolls
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September 15th, 2008 maggie
So, I’ve been busy going back to teaching a lot (I teach ballet as my “day job”) and getting ready for the October show. We’ve had two meetings so far to get feedback on our new pieces and take photos. It’s been fun and inspiring. Yesterday we needed extra time to talk, so we paraded through Central Square, Cambridge from the rehearsal space to the Au Bon Pain, with clip lights, hula hoops, and suitcases. It felt like being back on tour. So much fun!
With all of this going on, I don’t have time for thoughtful commentary here, although of course I can’t seem to stop talking about gender with friends and with my GF. There are so many people doing amazing blogging about femme stuff right now. Here are some recommendations of blogs I wish I had more time to read.
Sublime Femme has great stuff to say about make up, celebreties, butch-femme, and more.
A Consuming Desire is a queer Buddhist femme, just as interesting as you’d imagine.
Nikki is telling some great stories and has a fantastic post about consumerism and femme identity.
And of course you should be listening to the FemmeCast.
Bochinche Bilingue: a Borderline Academic doesn’t post much, but I love the complexitiy of the posts.
And, if you live under a rock, let me tell you that there are rumors that Lindsey Lohan and Samantha Ronson are engaged! Ok, that has nothing to do with anything except my new obsession with celebrity “butch-femme.”
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September 12th, 2008 Sassafras
As lots of you may know when I’m not blogging and performing with the femme show I’m an author and I’m the editor of the Kicked Out athology. I’m sure that you will all be pleased to know that the bedbug situation in our home appears to be completely under control, we’ve had no sightings in over a week and are continuing forward to with all required treatments!
It’s been a huge relief especially since a large amount of my time has been spent working on the new campaign that I have launched called “Come Out, Kicked Out.” www.kicedoutanthology.com is more than just a website for my anthology, it is truly about building a movement to break down the cultural shame and silencing faced by those of us who left home as teens because of our sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
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