Tell-All Tuesday: Alana
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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