The Call for Visual Artists for our Art Show at the October performances has been posted here. We’re excited to make this part of the show bigger and better than ever with the help of an awesome femme volunteer!
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Don’t forget to get tickets for our show at Machine August 8! This show is full of new and old material and it’s NOT the same stuff you’ll see in October. Last chance to see some of this season’s favorites!
Johnny and I are working on a new piece just for this show. Johnny is in hir Johnathon character and I am doing the ballerina thing, with two pointe shoes this time.
I am so excited to blend our different backgrounds – my ballet and ballet partnering skills with Johnny’s contact improv. acrobatics, and clowning.
In a separate project, one we’ve been talking about since we met, Johnny is also starting to study pointe. We went to capezio last week, and ze finished sewing hir shoes in the car on the way to camp.
Johnny’s are the shiny new ones. mine are beat. I need to break in a new pair ASAP.
It’s always exciting to watch someone put on that first pair, even when they’re grown up.
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Queer Spirit Camp was amazing! It is such a treat to perform in an intimate setting and then get to spend the weekend with your audience, sharing meals, swimming, talking, and exploring together.
My favorite part (besides swimming and teaching ballet) is talking with participants about femme, gender, performing, and life, and getting to meet all kinds of cool young queers.
Femmes and friends “camping.”
Not so happy to be “camping.” This photo is staged – Mallory didn’t really walk around in a plaid shirt, she’s in costume for her awesome camping burlesque piece. All I can say about that is that there were marshmallows involved. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hey, did you get your tickets for our Dyke Night show yet? This show will include some old favorites plus brand new performances that are guaranteed to cure your summer doldrums. Think fun, sexy, and thought provoking with all the pasties, props, and passion you’ve come to expect from your favorite local queer performance artists.
Look for updates from Queer Spirit Camp on our Twitter feed this weekend! woohoo!
You can also see Alicia and Maggie THIS SUNDAY at a fundraiser for our friends, Queer Soup, on Sunday night. Hopefully we won’t be covered in bug bites and poison ivy….
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an open letter to the man who drove back around the block to tell me my dress was tucked into my underwear:
??First, thank you. I am saying thank you now, because when I said it as you drove off I spoke in a mumbling, self conscious tone, still trying to figure out what our interaction meant, and how badly my dress was stuck in my underwear, and whether it was just a little but mussed or if I actually showed off my light blue, lacy, La Perla sample sale undies to all of Carolina Ave, including a whole playground and ball field full of elementary school students.
I said thank you because, as strange as that interaction was, as much as I wish you had kept driving and let some fellow subway rider tell me about my dress, thus sparing me the fear that I feel whenever a car pulls over to the side of the road towards me, as much as I would have preferred to get all the way to Downtown Crossing and have Mr. GF tell me, if that was the only other option, I believe that you drove back around the block and pulled over to alert me to my wardrobe malfunction with only the kindest of intentions.
I have to believe this because I want to live in a world where that is true, where the power and privilege you posses as a man in this world do not prevent you from doing an act of kindness without the specter of men’s every day violence towards women coming between us. I wish you could see the world and that interaction through a woman’s eyes. But thank you, I think.
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