April 27th, 2010 maggie
Here is another member of the Femme Show: the First Generation. havalah was there back when you had to walk three miles uphill both ways carrying a tarp, 12 razors, and 6 bottles of shaving cream if you wanted to do a performance about queer femme identity. Also, unlike most of these pomo queers, havalah is not afraid to admit to being squarely on the sweet side of the oppressive snack binary.
Tell us about your first Femme Show.
Well, i met Maggie one of the first weeks i moved to Boston. We were at a reading of The Whipping Girl by Julia Serano, and Maggie was giving rides back to Jamaica Plain. i got a ride back, and have been involved with The Femme Show ever since! i remember being so nervous and excited about being a part of it, and at the dress rehearsal i knew i was a part of something very special, and that i had found my community. From singing Ass and Titties before going on stage to having folks tie up my knee high boots, i loved every minute of the first Femme Show.
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April 22nd, 2010 maggie
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Kick off your Pride season right with the Femme Show at Re/Dress!
Please help spread the word about our NEW LOCATION for our first-ever Brooklyn show. We hope to see you there!
The Femme Show at Re/Dress
Saturday, June 5, 10:00 PM
The Femme Show comes to Re/Dress NYC with their unique blend of dance, spoken word, drag, burlesque and performance art from award winning artists. This is queer art for queer people, with a variety of diverse perspectives on femme identity that can be thoughtful, sad, funny, sexy, and fun. Special guests Lola Dean and Cheryl B. join us.
NOTE NEW LOCATION and TIME!
Please help spread the word about our new location and time! 109 Boerum Place, Brooklyn NYC
Transportation: F or G train to Bergen Street
Tickets $8-15 sliding scale at the door. No one turned away.
www.thefemmeshow.com
Re/Dress NYC is a curvy shopper’s dream come true! This lovely little shop is a premiere vintage & resale clothing boutique specializing in sizes 14 and up (vintage 10 + up). Fashions from Re/Dress NYC have been seen in the NYTimes Style Section, Italian Vogue’s Curvy Blog, Bust Magazine, Plus Model Magazine and more. Open Sun – Wed from 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm and Thurs – Sat from 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Re/Dress NYC is the perfect place to buy and sell goodies for your wardrobe.
We also want to alert you to the fabulousness that is the Sex Worker Cabaret, happening the next day. details are after the jump.
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April 21st, 2010 maggie
I originally posted this to my personal facebook page, because it felt, well, personal, but I’ve been encouraged to share it with you. I am doing much better now than I was when I first wrote it and I now have a 2009 Toyota Yaris, suitable for cramming in at least 3, maybe 4 femmes.
I never thought of myself as someone who was emotionally attached to her car, but then me and the Lesbaru had an encounter with a Dodge Ram on Lamartine Street Friday morning. I am fine, if a bit anxious and overwhelmed, but the Lesbaru will be appearing soon at a junkyard near you. I need to get going on cars.com, but first I need to say a few words in honor of the Lesbaru.
It was my maternal grandmother’s second to last car, and she gave it to me for a penny, with new tires and a clean bill of health. That gift meant freedom to quit working in politics when I was at the edge of burnout and marriage equality in Mass. was at the edge of victory. With a car, I could take better-paid work doing what I love, instead of lower wage jobs trying to teach hip-hop at community centers in Cambridge. I didn’t even know at the time that I would found a motley crew of queer performance artists, and that we would cram that car with petticoats and cheese snacks and drive all over the East Coast.
I put the Dar Williams bumper sticker on it that I’d saved since high school, and Mom bought me a rainbow. I immediately got a job teaching on Friday nights in a bad part of Weymouth and backed it into a parking spot every time because I was afraid it would get vandalized. Soon after wards, I started to feel too cool for bumper stickers, but it was too late, so I gave it the ironic nickname. (I hope the Crowleys aren’t offended).
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April 20th, 2010 maggie
Rachel showed up for the first Femme Show dress rehearsal with an Victorian etiquette guide in her purse, and the rest is history! Her secret powers being a kick-ass writer, facilitator, empowerer of youth, and eater of orange cheese snacks.
Tell us about your first Femme Show.
I was part of the small but illustrious stage crew for the first Femme Show. I had just moved to Boston from New York for grad school and was trying to find the queer community up here. In a fit of desperation, I googled “queer Boston” and the Femme Show came up. So I took a deep breath and volunteered to run the light board in the church basement (which was basically just twenty five light switches), and actually showed up to do it. I was also in charge of pulling the movie screen down for the Barbie doll film, and I think it worked out maybe 40% of the time– I needed someone else to bail me out the rest of the time. Somehow I managed not to break anything significant in the line of duty. A few months later, after a coincidental conversation about etiquette guides with Maggie, SPPSSM was born and I joined the Femme Show on the other side of the stage.
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April 13th, 2010 maggie
This week we bring you Ms. Amy Rain! Amy and her cohorts coined the iconic phrase “my femme is…” which is a great way to talk about yourself in the third person, vent frustration or celebrate your femme side, no matter what it looks like.
Tell us about your first Femme Show
The first year The Femme Show debuted in JP I was mesmerized. I was exhibiting paintings and selling ‘zines at the show and was so excited to see a celebration of queer femininity on stage. I loved the dancing, the burlesque, the drag, the size-positive spoken word, the shaving, the music, the crowd, all of it! It was all just so amazing! In art school I had struggled with a heterosexist audience and I longed to see my queer & femme identities reflected in the art and performance around me. When The Femme Show began I was creating queer art alone in the spare bedroom in my SoPo apartment and working full time. It took years out of academia and a road trip down to JP to finally find the art I had yearned for.
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April 6th, 2010 maggie
Ms. Webb is such a go-getter, we hear she filled out this survey while writing a song about blow-up dolls, producing a queer cabaret, making puppets, cracking sluts, and drinking water from a used beer bottle. Yum.
Oddly, this is not what she looks like in the Femme Show. Maybe Karin joined the witness protection program?
Tell us about your first Femme Show.
YMCA, Cambridge. Lovely Gals! I was not only impressed by the talent and variety of POV’s up on stage, but the strength, courage, and playfulness of these women. The show has grown so much since its inception. I felt right at home!
What have you been up to since October?
AHHHH! I’ve been performing with my troupe, “All The Kings Men” all over the country and most recently in London, I’ve been producing and performing “Bent Wit Cabaret” – a monthly show from my own production company “Axe To Ice Productions”. I’ve performed in “The Slutcracker”, and “Midnight Vultures”, a bunch of “Jerkus Circus’s”, puppetry with the “Elephant Tango Ensemble Puppet Players”, and other shows in and around Boston and NYC… I’m currently throwing myself into a new project that involves art, community, and taking over the world!
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Here is another member of the Femme Show: the First Generation. havalah was there back when you had to walk three miles uphill both ways carrying a tarp, 12 razors, and 6 bottles of shaving cream if you wanted to do a performance about queer femme identity. Also, unlike most of these pomo queers, havalah is not afraid to admit to being squarely on the sweet side of the oppressive snack binary.
