BUTCH Voices PDX: Conference Overview
The organizers of BUTCH Voices Portland are proud to bring you an overview of the events scheduled for the conference weekend. So many opportunities for networking, entertainment and connections!
Thursday, September 30
A Taste of BUTCH Flavor
6pm – 8pm
Q Center
4115 N Mississippi Ave, PDX
6pm -8pm
Free and open to the public
Art exhibition opening night with live music featuring a reunion of Portland’s all-womyn percussion troupe, The Rhythm Givers, with special guests. Art exhibition will be on display at Q Center for the month of October.
Read more A Taste of BUTCH Flavor
Friday, October 1
Scandals
Free to attend, Cash bar with live music by Annie Vergnetti and Nikki Jauron
SweLL: So the Story Goes
Doors 7:00pm/ Performance Showtime 7:30pm
$12 in advance, $15 at the door
Love Hurts – BUTCH Voices Edition
Portland’s Queer, Sexy, F*cked Up, Kinky, Playful Party
Ticket not included with conference registration
9pm
Location near downtown Portland
RSVP Required by contacting Sophia St James savorypink@gmail.com
Location and details given to paid attendees only.
$10 in advance, $15 at the door
Tickets available online here
Read more Meet & Greet, SweLL & Love Hurts
Saturday, October 2
Smith Memorial Student Union – 3rd Floor – Portland State University
8am – 6pm
8:00am Registration Opens
9:00am Opening Remarks
9:30am – 10:45am Session 1
11:00am – 12:15pm Session 2
12:15pm – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm – 2:45pm Session 3
3:00pm – 4:15pm Session 4
4:30pm – 5:30pm Keynote Speaker: Kathleen Saadat
5:30pm – 6:00pm Closing Remarks/Town Hall
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
We will also have some shopping and resource opportunities for you as well with She Bop, Adorn Body Art, In Other Words, Take My Heart Jewelry, Diesel Femme Wear and Wares, Taproot Hosting, Queer Cancer.org and Dyke Tees tabling on site throughout the conference day.
Register online here
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Butch Buffet
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd, PDX
Doors Open 8pm / Performance Showtime 9pm -11pm
ALL AGES variety showcase
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
Free to attendees with conference wristband, other wise $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Tickets available online here
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Butch Dessert
Egyptian Club
3701 Southeast Division St, PDX
11pm – closing
Free to attendees with conference wristband, otherwise $4 cover charge
21 + dance party DJ Action Slacks will be serving up vintage soul & other treats!
Read more Workshops, BUTCH Buffet & Dessert
Sunday, October 3
In Other Words
Spoken Word/Art Showcase
BUTCH Voices PDX Costume Contest Karaoke
Egyptian Club
3701 Southeast Division St, PDX
6pm -10pm
Free and open to the public
Costume contest and karaoke wind down to close out the conference weekend
Read more Gender/Queer and Costumed Karaoke
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2010 BUTCH Voices PDX: Gender/Queer and Costumed Karaoke
Gender/Queer: Spoken Word, Poetry & Art Show
Sunday, October 3rd
In Other Words
8 NE Killingsworth, PDX
2pm to 5pm
Free and open to the public!
Gender/Queer is a spoken word/poetry event, that will happen on Sunday, October 3rd at In Other Words. Start time is 2:00pm and we’ll burn a fire under your feet till 5:00. The event will feature an open mic, as well as several featured performances. This event will be emceed by our PDX favorite MC Sossity Chiricuzio, notorious for her fabulous work with Portland’s one and only Dirty Queer.
The goal of this event is to offer a stage for the voices of butch identified women, transmasculine studs, aggressives, and any other individuals that find their identity on the gender queer continuum. We are also welcoming all allies to participate in this event. Gender/Queer offers an opportunity to shout out our stories through art and poetry and encourage a community oriented activism that demands social and economic justice as well as equal rights. It is a stage where artists can freely express their work on queer identities, sexualities, wants, desires, politics, you name it.
There is no cover charge at the door. We would love to see you there!
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
Costume Karaoke Wind Down
BUTCH Voices Karaoke & Costume Contest
Sunday October 3rd
6pm to 10pm
Egyptian Club
3701 SE Division St, PDX
21+
No cover!
Join us for some sing-along tunes and a costume contest! Let’s finish out the conference weekend at the E-Room for karaoke with prizes for costumes.
A Taste of BUTCH Flavor, an Art Exhibition
A Taste of BUTCH Flavor, an Art Exhibition
6pm to 8pm
Art Exhibition runs through October 31st
Q Center
4115 N Mississippi Ave, PDX
Free and open to the public!
Come join us for an exhibition of drawings, paintings, photography and multi-media art works by Butches, for Butches, and about Butches. We are pleased to be showing work by both established and emerging artists. Conference attendees will have a unique opportunity to hear the artists discuss their work at the Artists’ Reception, to be held on Thursday night September 30th from 6pm to 8pm at Q Center. We will have live music featuring a reunion of Portland’s all-womyn percussion troupe, The Rhythm Givers, with special guests.
More of the exhibition can be seen during the conference in the hallways of our space; feel free to stop by these works of art in-between workshops. These works of art will not be shown as a collection again, so please don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to explore gender and sexuality with, A Taste of BUTCH Flavor.
Artists:
J.S. Walls
Shelley Stefan
Katy Cannatelli
Shorty Moles
Mel Heywood
Wendi Kali
Chris Burns
Rachel and Ben Indigo Cerise Baum aka bykegrrl7nBen
Full bios of Artists here
BUTCH Voices PDX: Workshops, BUTCH Buffet & Dessert
Saturday October 2nd
A FULL Day chock full of information, community, entertainment, and dancing!
Conference Workshops and Panels
Conference Registration and Check-in begins at 8am. Avoid the lines by registering online in advance here
Conference workshops and panels on a variety of topics all day. Check out our Workshops – topics range from Butch Porn, Transfemale Butchness, Two-Spirits, Genderqueer, Middle Class Butches, Dismantling Racism and Transphobia and more!
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
Presenters from all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond! Workshop schedule coming soon!
Registration 8am, Opening Remarks 9am
Smith Memorial Student Union – Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway, PDX
Butch Photo Project
Special event Butch Photo Project taking place throughout the conference workshop day! Internationally recognized Photo- based Artist SD (Shaira) Holman is continuing to explore themes of gender identity in her latest work.
Keynote Speaker – Kathleen Saadat
We are very fortunate to have as our Keynote Speaker Kathleen Saadat. Longtime activist and public speaker, Ms. Saadat is currently the Diversity Director at Cascade AIDS Project, and the winner of many awards over the years for her efforts in her continued efforts battling racial discrimination and prejudice within the LGBTQ community.
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
BUTCH BUFFET
BUTCH BUFFET - An evening to celebrate people who identify OR perform on the so-called ‘butch spectrum’– trans-masculine, studs, aggressives, bois, shy soft butches, genderqueer androgynes, etc.
LIVE IN PERSON!
Check out this AMAZING lineup!
‘SWELL’s Ivan Coyote, Lyndell Montgomery & Anna Camilleri present soul-riveting storytelling, premiering a new piece at the BUTCH BUFFET. See it here first!
Hot off of ‘America’s Got Talent’, SALLY COHN will blow our minds with her radical butch handwhistling and wily septuagenarian ways!
Musical performance by Annie Vergnetti, Mel Buckner, and internationally recognized Taiko drum master, Tiffany Tamaribuchi!
Fresh DRAG ACTS from Lukas Kane & the Girls Like Boys drag troupe, Bruce T.D. King, Johnny-O, and Ryval Theology!
Off-the-radar performance pieces by ‘Dapper Dyke’ Vivian, Velvet Ilvs, Shortee Davis,Whitney Streed, and Untrained, I!
AND! SUPER BONUS ALERT! Filmmaker JEN CROTHERS is coming to town to present her amazing short film, “BUTCH TITS”. YES.
Photo Booth by Aaron Bong of Full Frontal Graphics
Bootblacking by Scout, NW Community Boot Black Title Holder
Not to be missed!
BUTCH BUFFET
Saturday Oct. 2nd
@ the historic Hawthorne Theatre, PDX
doors at 8 p.m., show at 9
ALL-AGES, with full bar available for 21+
$10 in advance, $12 at the door (admission FREE with BUTCH Voices conference wristband)
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
See you all there!
BUTCH DESSERT
BUTCH DESSERT – Come one, come all to BUTCH DESSERT, the afterparty/dance party for the Butch Buffet!
D.J. Action Slacks (Shannon W. of Olympia/PDX) spins vintage soul & other tasty treats all night long to get the dance floor HOT! Butch & genderqueer-themed drink specials! Mirth & Merriment! Dance Party USA!
BUTCH DESSERT
11pm – closing
Egyptian Club
3701 SE Division St, PDX
21+ dance party
$4 cover, (admission FREE with BUTCH Voices PDX conference wristband)
Come send out “The E Room” in style on one of their last weekends as ‘Portland’s lesbian bar’.
DJ Shannon “Action Slacks” Wiberg is a self-defined MUSIC NERD who hails from the MIGHTY Mid-West. In 1994 she migrated to the Northwest and continued her formal education focusing on the history of R&B and soul music and its connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for social justice. At the turn of the millennium, DJ Shannon “Action Slacks” took her act to the dance floor. She has been spinning grooves to make you move ever since. After nearly 15 years fighting for soul, Action Slacks is very pleased to see the recent resurgence in 1960s soul music and she wants to make sure that people remember its roots.
So What’s Going On During BUTCH Voices NYC?
(thanks to Sugarbutch.net for sharing this particularly succinct write-up with us)
Oh, I’m so glad you asked.
We have three major co-sponsored events outside of the Butch Voices day-long conference. You all know the conference details already, right?
Butch Voices Regional Conference in New York City
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Queers for Economic Justice Performance and Conference Space
147 West 24th Street, New York City, NYThe day-long conference will include workshops, panels, a butch hospitality lounge as well as a very special keynote celebration of our history and community of butches. Plan out your day by looking at the workshops offered and the schedule.
But what else is going on, outside of the day-long event?
First, Friday night kicks off the conference with a social event designed for us to all meet each other, make friends, or possibly hook up.
Speed Dating and Friending with Butch Voices
Friday, September 24th from 8-10pm
At Anti-Diva, Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, NYCJoin us for queer speed meet and greet socializing brought to you from Velvetpark, hosted by Diana Cage and Grace Moon at Anti-Diva! Also featuring an acoustic performance with musical guest Melissa Li whose music has been featured in Curve and Bitch magazines, and has been nominated for an OUTMusic Award. Check out her current band Melissa Li & The Barely Theirs at www.melissali.com.
Cost: $10-$15
FREE for folks who have pre-registered for the BUTCH Voices NYC Regional Conference
Fundraiser proceeds will go to BUTCH Voices NYC Regional Conference
Then, Saturday after the conference, we’re going to hightail it down to Bluestockings Bookstore for a very special Queer Memoir/Sideshow: Queer Literary Carnival Mashup reading series:
BUTCH Voices NYC 2010 Queer Memoir/Sideshow Mash-Up
Saturday September 25th at 7pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St, New York, NY
$5 suggested donationThe first ever regional gathering of BUTCH Voices in NYC will bring together self identified Butches, Studs, Aggressives and other folks who identity as masculine as center as well as many allies for conversation, workshops, entertainment, and good ol’ fashioned butch bonding. The Butch Voices Queer Memoir/Sideshow Mash-Up will bring together writers and storytellers to share in this celebration.
QUEER MEMOIR is an NYC based storytelling series that works to give voice to our collective queer experiences, and preserve and document our complex queer history. Queer Memoir is curated and hosted by Genne Murphy and Kelli Dunham. SIDESHOW: The Queer Literary Carnival is a reading of serious literature for ridiculous times, curated and hosted by Cheryl B and Sinclair Sexsmith.
With Queer Memoir storytellers:
Ryann Makenzi Holmes, 26, Bed Stuy, Bk, NY — entrepreneur, student, biker, skater, DJ boi — was born in Washington, DC and raised primarily in Largo, Maryland. She currently attends Baruch College in New York, working tirelessly towards the “coveted” MBA. She resides in Brooklyn, where she attributes the inspiration for her first entrepreneurial endeavor, bklyn boihood, a community organization dedicated to the empowerment and visibility of masculine presenting queer and trans folks of color.
Morgan Mann Willis is an east-coast/uptown original; a homolicious, AGstudboi; a writer, teacher, student, woman-lover, cat-lover, bus-taker, part-time poet, full-time love machine who spends her days and nights spanking New York City’s sexy ass. Sometimes she teaches in prison, sometimes in jail, sometimes on street corners, but most of the time she’s being schooled by life or is busy dreaming up schemes to become several different varieties of amazing.
Emma Crandall recently moved to Brooklyn from Atlanta and teaches writing at Temple in Philadelphia. When not in transit, Emma writes about gay culture in her own precious scribblings, as contributing editor at Velvetpark, and, formerly, as co-creator of the blog Breeders Digest: Helping Straight People Help Themselves. She prefers life in melodrama, outfits on the complicated side, and Stevie Nicks on the rocks, with shawls.
And Sideshow performers:
Philadelphia, PA native Renair Amin is no stranger to the arts. As an author, she has written for various print and on-line publications. Her work also appears in the Nghosi Books anthology, Longing, Lust & Loving. As a spoken word artist, Renair has graced national stages, including New York City, where she hosts Speak Your Myne, a monthly open mic showcase of her creation. In 2006, Renair formed Pmyner, Ltd., a literary entertainment company for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender performance arts community. In 2010, Renair Amin was named one of the Top 5 Lesbian Entrepreneurs by LezNation Magazine.
Kestryl Cael is a dandy trans butch performance artist with too many stories to tell. Hir one-queer-show, XY(T), has toured across the country, delighting and discomfiting college students and soccer moms. Ze was a member of “The Language of Paradox,” a performance ensemble founded and directed by Kate Bornstein. Cael’s writing appears in anthologies such as Kicked Out, and ze is half of the performance duo, PoMo Freakshow. Ze is currently developing ’348,’ a solo performance piece about the troubled teen industry, torture, and a hot pink sweatshirt.
But wait! That’s not all! If you’re still itching to go out after that, there will be a special Brooklyn-based sex and play party for women & trans folks late on Saturday night:
SUBMIT: A Special Collaboration with Butch Voices!
The city’s hottest sex and SM party for the women and trans community will feed your appetite, whether you’re a voyeur, experienced player, novice, or just curious, you’re sure to find something to satisfy! Come use our huge collection of equipment including slings, bondage equipment, spanking bench, plenty of private cubbies, shower, tub, live sex, and and hot porn! New boot black station! Wanna drink? We’ll keep yours cold! SPECIAL GUEST: DJ Mistress Roxxxy!! Wondering how to meet people? Wear an action wristband! ~ Lots of private spaces ~ women/trans only please be sure to check our gender policy.
Doors open at 10pm, bring your Butch Voices conference ticket for $5 off
Featuring a very special Deep Throat demonstration with Leah at 1AMFOR MORE INFORMATION, questions, or the location call 718-789-4053 or email Red@submitparty.com
And if that isn’t enough, well, there will be another Butch Brunch following the conference in October, on Saturday the 16th. All of these events are open to the public, to masculine of center folks or our allies, and you don’t have to be attending the conference to come to these events (though you do get in free, if you have your conference registration proof). See you there!
BUTCH Voices PDX: Meet & Greet, SweLL & Love Hurts
Events for Friday, October 1st at a glance.
Meet & Greet
Start the evening off with the Conference Meet and Greet
5pm at Scandals – join us for some tunes and meet up with other conference attendees and local Portlanders. There will be a cash bar and live music by Annie Vergnetti and Nikki Jauron.
SweLL: So The Story Goes
Exclusive Portland performance by Ivan E. Coyote, Lyndell Montgomery, and Anna Camilleri at the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom, Portland State Univeristy. Doors at 7:00pm, showtime at 7:30pm **separate from conference registration fee** $Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door - tickets available online here.
SweLL is: Ivan E Coyote, Anna Camilleri, Lyndell Montgomery.
With numerous books, CDs, performance, and video works to their individual credit, “cultural agitator and fab femme (NOW)” Anna Camilleri, “natural-born storyteller (Globe and Mail)” Ivan E. Coyote, and “musical genius (Xtra)” Lyndell Montgomery recently started talking about resurrecting the magical collaboration that the performance troupe Taste This was. A lot has changed since Taste This exploded onto the cultural scene, but the issues that the early collective inhabited continue to be relevant—questions of gender, sexuality, desire, culture, class, rural versus city life, and kinship. Home stories. Queer tales. True, except when they’re not. Stories that swell and implode the spaces between cultural institutions and queer landscapes; between female and male; between tightly produced performance and kitchen table talk.”
ASL interpretation provided by DHOR
Love Hurts – BUTCH Voices Edition
Savory Pink Productions & BUTCH Voices Portland team up for an amazing night of Butch bonding & bondage
Love Hurts is a night of exploration in a safe environment. It is for the kinky and kinky curious queers of Portland and the surrounding areas. It is a play space that allows all genders of queer orientation to come together and explore their more sexual, kinky, and voyeuristic side. Admission will happen at 9p. Tickets may be purchased online here or at In Other Words (8 NE Killingsworth) (CASH ONLY) for $10. You may purchase tickets at the door for $15 as well. RSVP is required to receive the location address. If you plan on paying at the door, please email savorypink@gmail.com with all the names attending.
There will provide lights snacks and beverages. We will also have our ‘Come and Get Me Board’ for those who want a little action but are too shy to approach that specific someone.
The location of Love Hurts will be in NE Portland and the space is accessible to all ability levels. Once you RSVP, an email confirmation will be sent to you.
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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
~~~When purchasing your ticket(s), be sure to RSVP with your email address. The day of the event, we will send out an email with the location of the event. Please do not share the location with anyone.
~~~NO ALCOHOL. PERIOD!
~~~Once you arrive, you will receive a copy of the house rules and the waiver. You will have to review them and sign them.
~~~You MUST respect all other things and persons.
For questions regarding the event, please contact Sophia St. James at savorypink@gmail.com or Joe LeBlanc at BVPortland2010@gmail.com.
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Read more about the rest of the BUTCH Voices Portland Regional Conference events
Workshops, BUTCH Buffet & Dessert
Gender/Queer and Costumed Karaoke
BUTCH Voices LA Updates
Have you registered yet for BVLA? The $25 tickets for students/limited income are sold out!
So, don’t blow the $50 online ticket deadline! Yes, you can show up at the door – but Tickets At the Door will be $60. Why not SAVE $10?
JUST PRE-REGISTER HERE & PICK UP YOUR TICKETS IN THE ‘SPEED’ LINE on Friday. BUTCH Voices LA October 8-10th: 48 hours of non stop workshops & performers.
Check out the Schedule here!
‘INVINCIBLE’ FASHION HEATING UP!
“a night of sartorial radicality for daggers, dandies & dapper dudes”
designers and models are being announced. Celebrity strut is on its way! This is going to go way beyond fashion ….
Fashion Design Curator Tania Hammidi says: “INVINCIBLE is our state of mind: an unyielding spirit and a dream of an immediate future made manifest … where butch*/stud/trans/masculine-of-center folks like us take our place as the hot fashion centerfolds that we are in everyday life...[more]
INVINCIBLE: FRIDAY OCT 8TH – Get there early – BVLA conference Registration opens at 6pm: this is your first must-do to get into all the night’s events, so pre-register & get in the fastline! Then Relax & enjoy the Meet & Greet: Art Lounge & Vendor booths open. Hang out, meet the artists, tastings and more! Dozens of artisans, fashion designers, and products on sale for your shopping pleasure! In the Art Lounge … queer artistic visions from fine artists & photographers who celebrate/question/adore butch, stud, trans & genderqueer.
Enjoy Free WATER REFILL STATIONS onsite throughout the conference!
DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR OWN CUP OR REUSABLE WATER BOTTLE!
Water Refill Stations generously provided by Mountain Valley Spring Water (800-499-9982)
BUTCH Voices PDX presents Butch Project photo shoot
The Butch Project Portland photography shoot at BUTCH Voices Portland
Internationally recognized Photo- based Artist SD (Shaira) Holman is continuing to explore themes of gender identity in her latest work.
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The Butch Project, seeks to explore, document and picture what Butch and female masculinity are in contemporary queer communities. The subjects I work with will include many sizes, shapes, ethnicities and styles of Butch. They will be bold, shy, extravagant, tough, pregnant, silly, sexy …
etc. etc.
Verbal and literary definitions of Butch can run the risk of stereotyping, as the linearity of language necessitates a one-at-a-time additive or exceptional reading: Butch is this and this and this but not that or that.
In the Butch Project I am positioning Butch as intrinsically queer. I am exploring the complex and contradictory natures of Butch, not trying to explain or dilute or apologize, but to glory in our mercurial and perhaps sometimes confusing natures.
I want to explore Butch identity not as oppositional to Femme, trans identity or feminisms, but as as an inclusive site of resistance to limitations on the way women, gender, and sexuality are still defined. I am exploring the body, the queer subject, and dismantling socialized, role-defined, gender appropriate behavior.
The queer cultures in which Butch is situated are constantly changing and I wish to capture a diverse range of voices celebrating and reflecting butch identities.
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Interested in being a model?
The work will be exhibited in galleries and in an anticipated book on butch. Participants will be required to sign a waiver and in recognition of their time will receive jpegs of 3 shots and an ‘at cost’ 8×10″ print of the best shot.
When: Saturday October 1 (possible shoot times for Friday 30 and Sunday eve the 2)
Where: Butch Voices Conference, PSU, Portland. Precise details provided on confirmation of appointment.
If you are interested please email jen@jencrothers.com with Butch Project Portland in the subject. We’re not exactly sure of times yet but if you have a preference please include it.
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- *The Butch Project Portland photography shoot*
If you’re local to Vancouver, Canada please make an appointment for the Oct 23/24 weekend in Vancouver so we can maximise the participation of Butch Voices attendees.
Thanks,
the Butch Project team
More info on BUTCH Voices Portland
Be sure to register for BUTCH Voices Portland today!
Building Bridges Between Masculine of Center Women & Transmen
This article was written by Tehea Robie and appeared originally on OaklandLocal.com
A socio-political conversation with Krys Freeman feels exactly right.
It’s a journey to eternity at the speed of light. In fact, s/he has a timeless, elaborate comprehension of power relations and multiple systems of domination. On blaKtivist, her blog, Freeman writes about everything from solar planes and civil rights, to health reform and HIV. “On Haiti: Dear Journalists, Looting Doesn’t Exist in a Disaster Area” succinctly puts reporters on blast for being “contextually inappropriate.”
Freeman earned a degree in Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College. S/he was born and raised in Flushing, Queens, in a three-parent (grandparents and mother) household. Her grandfather and mother passed down an interest in computers. Freeman works her/his tech-savy swag as a web project manager. S/he serves as [Board President and Chief Strategist] for BUTCH Voices and has been published on AOL.com, wiretapmag.com and Sustainable Life Media.
In 2008, Freeman was a media fellow for communities of African descent at GLAAD – Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Currently, s/he has started developing a social network – The Definition – for masculine of center women, trans men and their allies. The site has links for testosterone self care, how to get compression vests and links that teach people transgender terminology.
BUTCH Voices LA – Swagger
World Premiere of these artists… like you’ve never seen them before
Saturday night performers include…
Artist, performer and ‘“a genre unto herself,” PHRANC has gone from being the All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger, to Hot August Phranc, to the Cardboard Cobbler…always rocking her famous phlat-top and bulldagger swagger.
BUTCHLALIS DE PANOCHTITLAN (BdP) is Raquel Gutierrez and Claudia Rodriguez, a Chicano performance group out of Los Angeles. Come for their hot suits and butch attire, stay for their critical commentary on racism, classism, and urban development. “The self-described butch dykes/transgender butches/genderqueer spoken-word entertainers expand the lexicon of transexuality and its physical and psychological neighborhoods and communities.”
A “jolt of creative and comedic energy”, D’LO is a Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian, music producer & teacher of queer masculinity workshops who says “You can’t call yourself a revolutionary if you have a problem being nice.”
Performance Curator Raquel Gutierrez is creating a never-before-seen world premiere of performance cabaret from some of your favorite artists. Peggy Shaw, Phranc, D’Lo, Angie Evans, Butchlalis De Panochtitlan, Heather Cassills, Dawn Kaspar, and Jasper James and much more! “I’m super excited about this and hope you’ll come support this big community-based endeavor, it’s gonna subvert the monolithic identity structure and like totally uphold it at the same time. Yay, contradiction!! ”
