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Vixen Noir presents a provocative evening of burlesque and spoken-word that traces her evolution from being a sensual toddler, to being a teen wrought with erotic fantasies and coming out as a lesbian. Her drug-induced twenties were replete with low self-esteem, bad choices, the elusive orgasm and her never-ending search for sexual freedom on a higher plane. In a funny, edgy, sexy and raucous one-woman performance, Vixen gets down and dirty as she sets out to prove that her smutty ways were passed down through her matriarchal bloodline. Vixen believes, “I came out of my mother’s womb sexually charged!” Her performance employs a fierce mix of storytelling, poetry, monologues, songs, burlesque, contemporary dance and culminates in an explosive, mind-bending, toes-curling climax that will have you looking at sexuality in a whole different light. Thandiwe Thomas de Shazor uses prose, monologue and dance in this colorful and comedic commentary on the past, present and future, a semi-autobiographical, multi-media performance piece that explores, juxtaposes and satirizes the modern Black church and the Black gay community. Lynne Breedlove - A vanguard of the queer/trans community, Lynn Breedlove is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. S/he has over 3,790 hits on Google.com. The founder and frontperson of the first American out dyke punk band Tribe 8, which has always stood for queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility, Breedlove has toured Europe and North America with Tribe 8 as well as Rise Above: The Tribe8 Documentary. S/he is the acclaimed author of Godspeed, an autobiographical novel which s/he has toured as a multi-media solo show highlighted by the music and photos of women, queers, dykes, and transfolk. Breedlove has been a featured performer at Sister Spit, Michigan Women’s Music Fest, SF Tranny March, and multiple Ladyfests and Pride fests over the last fifteen years, including Europride 2000 in Rome. IN 2003, s/he developed the concept of The Old Skool New Skool Project, a year of monthly events teaming first and second generation women’s music stars, and assisted Boo Price in producing it at the Montclair Women’s Club in Oakland. The consummate candy-fag, Thisway/Thatway (Stephanie Cooper) enjoys the messy collision of glitter and theory. The work of this genderqueer blackpanamanian intermedia performance artist explores the perils and possibilities of interstitial spaces. She ran amok with the finest of Washington, D.C.'s drag/burly-q scene before wandering to California's Bay area. When not on stage, he can be seen as "smarty-pants student" at Mills College pursuing a degree in Ethnic Studies and Intermedia Arts. Also performing with Thisway / Thatway will be Jailbird Thunderheart (Anna Whitehead), a writer, painter, and performer who occupies most of her time making music under the guise of Jailbird Thunderheart. She has worked as a teaching artist for the past two years, assisting youth and adults in the puppet and mural arts, co-organizing community parades, and building and playing musical instruments. Redwolf Painter is a two-spirit mixed blood Heyoka retired punk from Alaska. Wolf grew up in a poor mixed blood American Indian/White family with deep Alaskan roots which reverberates throughout his writing and social justice work. For the last 15 years Wolf has been writing, performing and producing events for various non-profit organizations. Currently Wolf sits on the original Transmarch Steering Committee in San Francisco, volunteers with Frameline. Meliza Bañales is a writer originally from Los Angeles. She is the author of Say It With Your Whole Mouth and the forthcoming 51 Poems About Nothing At All. Her work can be found in the anthologies Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing-Up Working-Class, Baby, Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing, The Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Change, and Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders of the Spoken-Word Movement. She was the first Latina to win a slam championship on the west coast and has competed on three national slam teams as well as coached and was the winner of the 2002 People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Her film, “Do the Math”, with Mary Guzmán was the winner of a 2006 Frameline Completion Grant. She currently wrapped up being on the Fall ’07 national tour with rowdy, spoken-word outlaws Sister Spit, is the winner of a 2008 Creating Queer Community Grant, has a clothing line as Missy Fuego for Never Never Designs, is working on another short film “Getting Off” with J. Aguilar, is co-executive producer of the Tina D’Elia film, “Lucha”, (which chronicles the revolutionaries of El Salvador) and is an artist-in-residence for Airspace. She lives in San Francisco and you can visit her on the web at www.myspace.com/Meliza Bañales and at www.neverneverdesigns.com. Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs and a work of utter fiction titled Rose of No Man's Land. Her poetry chapbooks from the 90s were gathered into a collection called The Beautiful, and she has edited a bunch of antholgies, most recently the new queer girl writing volume, Baby, Remember My Name, and the compendium of feminist fashion esays, It's So You. She runs Radar Productions, which produces a bunch of literary events and excursions, including Sister Spit: The Next Generation, a national female literary performance tour. Thea Hillman redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community. Whether she's pondering quirky family tendencies ("Drag"), reflecting on queerness ("Another"), or recounting scintillating adventures in San Francisco's sex clubs, Hillman's brave and fierce vision for cultural and societal change shines through. Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) chronicles one person's search for self in a world obsessed with normal. In first-person prose as intimate as a diary.
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