March 29th, 2010 maggie
The True Colors Conference is always a special destination for me, but after 3 years of presenting, it’s now beloved by everyone at the Femme Show.
What’s not so beloved is a 10:30 AM start time. That might sound reasonable, but getting 6 femmes and friends awake, caffeinated, made up, warmed up, and in costume by that hour is no mean feat, not when you add a rush hour trip from Boston to Storrs, a cinder block, and two razor scooters. But we made it, with help from Mylene’s scones and the awesome UCONN staff. Carlos and his compatriots didn’t miss a beat in getting us hooked up to their fancy technology and getting info from me while I tried to put on my make up and run lines. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 23rd, 2010 maggie
The first time Madge/M. performed with us in Portland (about a year ago, I think) we had a femmetacular slumber party and I almost peed my pants laughing. Hir snaxuality is queer. That’s all I have to say.
Tell us about your first Femme Show I had fierce bangs, darling. I was serving a wicked bob in it’s last phases of queerness before it turned real housewives. My first femme show wasn’t so much “la la land” as “va va voom land.” I met smokin hot performers whose genders(and fringed lingerie) filled me with desire and solidarity. I contracted glitter herpes. In all seriousness, I did a more serious piece that used burlesque to explore the relationship between sexiness and violence as a feminine person. I felt supported, encouraged, and understood. The Femme Show fills you with daring and sharpens your focus as a performer.
What have you been up to since October?
During the day, I have been busting my ass as a community organizer. During the night, I have been showing my ass as a burlesque, drag, trash performer with Traniwreck, Intro to Anatomy, and other esteemed cabarets. I’ve also been privileged to go on several Femme road trips during which we sipped blood orange margaritas in the ancestral homeland and I lugged around a cinder block from stage to stage. It’s real cement. It gave me a cement hickey.
Why do you think the Femme Show is important?
The Femme Show has been a critical space for me to do performance art that’s explicitly, bombastically queer. The Femme Show has reigned in some powerhouses to make work about our Femme and femininity which otherwise might go on being invisible, closeted, criticized, not a worthwhile creative outlet, or simply not celebrated outlandishly enough. The Femme Show also snuffs out stereotypes and gives you a whole bouquet of Femme and feminine queer identities. I feel challenged, I feel looked after, I have a lifestyle compendium to consult should I ever go astray or find myself with a run in my stockings. There are so many Femmes in the show to look up and nuzzle in their bosom. Also, if the Femme Show is performing in your festival we got the goodies to put on your flier and fill seats, nah mean? #Imjustsayin.
What are you most excited about for the Femme Show in 2010?
I’m excited about people busting out new hot shit. The possibilities are endless. Well for me actually the possibilities are like rolling around on the floor, taking off my clothes, or choreography that’s limited to tripping and falling. Maybe I’ll try something super duper daring like poetry. Wait with breath that is bated, gurl.
What is your favorite thing to do onstage? Least favorite?
Favorites: Be awesome and/or creepy. Also, well costumed.
Least favorite: Suck. Or host.
Sweet or Savory?
Down with the snack binary!!!! It’s not either/or or even “both”. It’s ALL girl. Gimme all your sugar and umami. I’m that person at breakfast that needs a Belgian waffle and a grilled cheese. Let me get some pretzels after my ice cream. Let me get some sweet & sour chicken and tangy yogurt. What’s tangy anyway? And then there’s cardomom. How do you box in cardamom? Cardamom transcends. My snaxuality is queer.
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March 16th, 2010 maggie
Here is Ms. Alicia Greene, our resident footballer, MC and cake baker and all-round fabulous seasonal femme.
Tell us about your first Femme Show
I was not sure of what to expect. All of these feeling were rushing around in me. The energy backstage was so amazing! All of these strong and talented people doing such great things around me was almost too much to take. I do remember feeling a sense of divine-ness. Not just because all of the Femme Show performers are indeed divine in our own ways 
But, because I felt like I was finally in the right place at the right time.
What have you been up to since October?
Traveling to the Dominican Republic, baking lots of cakes, playing on the defensive line for my football team (Lava), performing in Queer Soup’s “Writer’s Speakeasy:Gender Icons” and announcing roller derby for the Boston Derby Dames as “Lady Oshun”
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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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