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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February 24th, 2010 maggie
We had a great time at Snug Underground! Many thanks to Gena and the Snug Underground Festival for hosting us at the only venue we’ve ever performed at that has a giant preying mantis in the backyard.
Gena, Steve, Ezra and Gayle are proud to be High Maintenance! Read the rest of this entry »
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February 16th, 2010 maggie
that’s meeeeeeeee!
Tell us about your first Femme Show
The success of the first show was a total shock to me. My goal was to sell about 80 tickets – that would have been enough to break even and replenish my savings. Instead we sold something like 300 and ran out of seats, toilet paper, and programs.
What have you been up to since October?
I went back to my roots in classical ballet and danced in the Urban Nutcracker, with pink tights and everything. I was taking ballet class almost every day and putting my feet in buckets of ice almost every night. I put on tons of muscle and ate like a horse. In between I tried to occasionally check femme show email and book some shows. Then a few weeks ago I stepped of a step wrong and twisted my ankle so I am resting my body and getting ready to make this an awesome year for the Femme Show!
What makes the Femme Show so important?
We are bringing to the forefront some gender issues that don’t get talked about enough. Our inclusive stance is one of our best assets, because it means that we can explore femme and femininity from many different angles.
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February 9th, 2010 maggie
Whether she’s got her clothes on or off, we love Gingerita.
Tell us about your first Femme ShowMy first femme show was during the fall of 2009- it was really nice performing
with such a diverse group of women and being included as part of the team.
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February 1st, 2010 MimiTheFattie
Note from Maggie: In this entry, Lady Clara shares her thoughts from Common Threads. “All of us can feel happy, at times, in our lives, but joy, pure joy, the kind that gives you the energy to face the world, well, that emotion is rare and precious. These kids will remember this retreat as the time they experienced their first kiss, their first crush, learned about the rainbow flag, witnessed fierce femmes discuss their identities and made friends that finally *got* them. Powerful stuff.”
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September 2nd, 2009 maggie
August is a busy month here at the Femme Show! We performed at Machine, posed in the park in our rufflebutts, and hit the road for Philadelphia and Baltimore. And in between yours truly and a crop of hardy volunteers have been working tirelessly to bring you our all new show!
What happened in august, part 1… Read the rest of this entry »
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July 7th, 2009 maggie
an open letter to the man who drove back around the block to tell me my dress was tucked into my underwear:
??First, thank you. I am saying thank you now, because when I said it as you drove off I spoke in a mumbling, self conscious tone, still trying to figure out what our interaction meant, and how badly my dress was stuck in my underwear, and whether it was just a little but mussed or if I actually showed off my light blue, lacy, La Perla sample sale undies to all of Carolina Ave, including a whole playground and ball field full of elementary school students.
I said thank you because, as strange as that interaction was, as much as I wish you had kept driving and let some fellow subway rider tell me about my dress, thus sparing me the fear that I feel whenever a car pulls over to the side of the road towards me, as much as I would have preferred to get all the way to Downtown Crossing and have Mr. GF tell me, if that was the only other option, I believe that you drove back around the block and pulled over to alert me to my wardrobe malfunction with only the kindest of intentions.
I have to believe this because I want to live in a world where that is true, where the power and privilege you posses as a man in this world do not prevent you from doing an act of kindness without the specter of men’s every day violence towards women coming between us. I wish you could see the world and that interaction through a woman’s eyes. But thank you, I think.
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