Tell-All Tuesday: M. Hanora
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.
