The Beautiful People
October 29th, 2009 maggiePerformers doing what they do best…
6 hours later at doyle's, the makeup is starting to wear off and the whiskey has taken effect.
Celebrating Femme Identity
Thank you!
October 26th, 2009 maggie <div class=\"postavatar\">
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More than anything else we do, the Femme Show in Boston is a community effort. From the bake sale (we raised $600 for MTPC!) to the tech staff, to the ASL interpreters and the after party volunteers, there are dozens of people who make this show possible. Whether you bought a ticket or 6, volunteered for one night, updated your facebook status, attended the after party, baked brownies, or bought a brownie, you are part of what makes this show possible!
A big thank you to our sponsors, artists, vendors and volunteers:
Katie Diamond (graphic design and more!)
Pixie Girl Design (web design and more!)
The Slutcracker
The Network/La Red
Individual Details
Truth Serum Productions
RT by K8
Irene Ediger of Lush Life and the Cambridge Antique Market
The Fireplace Restaurant
Bonnie Rovics, LMT
Disco Crush
Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
Vee Vee Restaurant
Double Barrel Apparel
TPC Open Mic
The Pita Pit (after party food!)
The Alter Eco
Savor your Existence
Cameryn Moore, Phone Whore
Boston Boabom
Hilary and Adina sell tasty treats for MTPC
Art Show featuring Kate Moss and Natasha Nolan
Body Heat coming to Boston and a few of the Femme Show’s favorite Cities
August 27th, 2009 maggieBody Heat is “a collective of fierce, sassy, irreverent Femme artists setting ablaze performance art communities and smashing open Femme stereotypes. Porn, Kink, Smut, Erotica -Body Heat is not reclaiming our sex so much as OWNING it. We will turn you on. We will challenge all of your Gender, Sex, Feminist, Social, & Political boundaries & assumptions. We will entertain the hell out of you. Mostly we will leave you panting, begging, dripping for more. ”
The Femme Show loves Body Heat and will welcome them to Boston tomorrow with open arms. Rumor has it there are some Femme Show folks in the line up.
Femmethology Virtual Tour
April 17th, 2009 maggieToday is the Femme Show’s turn for the Virtual Book Tour for Visible: A Femmethology, the two-volume anthology about femme out now from Homofactus Press. All our blogger friends are weighing in throughout April, and it’s so much fun I think we can go on a virtual tour. Not sure how that works for performance artists, though. Maybe I can ask folks to post our youtube videos all over the place? So much easier than actual touring!
This anthology is almost daunting in its breadth and depth. At it’s best, it feels like the best kitchen table discussion ever – femmes and friends with days and days worth of stories to share, opening their lives and letting you in. There’s hot coffee and hard liquor and lemonade and you can stay all night. My favorite essays are personal reflections that are well-written enough to pull you into their world. The Femme Show is represented by Sassafras and by Peggy Munson, who was in our first ever show. There are some new favorites and (JD Dykes and J.C. Yu) and old ones (Hadassah Hill, Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Tara Hardy) among the 50+ contributors. This is definitely a wonderful way to expand the conversation about femme.
Go here to get yr copy!
March 18th, 2009 maggie
The One National Archives is hosting a photo exhibit called “GenderPlay in Lesbian Culture” and it features a photo of your favorite femme performance artists from 2008, by the wonderful Steph Plourde-Simard, who always makes us look fabulous. I don’t know how many folks reading this are anywhere near LA, but if you are go check it out and tell them the femme show sent you!
Discover cross-dressers and tobacco-chewers of the American Civil War and the Wild West, stone butches, high femmes, and kikis of the 1950s, through to the dykes of the Lesbian Feminist 1970s to bois, trans people, and genderqueers today. All re-mixed with vintage photos, archival docs, film clips, and historic first person accounts.
Produced by ONE Archives Gallery & Museum and LEX – the Lesbian Exploratorium. Co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood & LA Pride/Christopher Street West.
A Very Good Thing: Inclusive Art Series
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Ms. Hinterland's doll she made of herself
Bellow is the call for participation in a truly incredible community art project being organized by Ms. Hinterland a lovely, lovely femme I’ve had the pleasure of corresponding with over the past couple of weeks. She’s making hand embroidered dolls that will be accompanied by a paragraph that explores female identity. She hopes to be displaying them at the femme conference in 2010 : )
Before submitting I asked her about how she planned to deal with tattoos and she quickly got back to me saying that she was thrilled with the prospect of embroidering them as well! I’ve since sent her my paragraph and photos of my tattoos that are visible from the front because of their importance in how I understand my own gender. I can’t wait to see my doll!!!! I thought some of you might also be into this project : )
Femmes Color!
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Yesterday I was so excited to rush home from work to discover that my copies of ‘The Femme Coloring Book’ had arrived safe and sound at my house! For those of you who have not yet heard of this fantastic project, it was edited by Caitlin Sweet and includes the drawings of femmes from all over. Each drawing celebrates or explores the femme identity of the artist. For example, my page in the book deals with the paradoxes of femme identity for me- “femme is baking cupcakes while discussing queer theory. It’s loud makeup and big tattoos. It is a trashy, sexy, and smart queer perversion of femininity!
