YES!

Reteaching Gender and Sexuality from Sid Jordan on Vimeo.

into it...

Bath Time!

some recent findings of inspiration

so... as I tend to do, I have been seeking out the latest and greatest pop queers... this is what i found:

http://luigiyluca.blogspot.com/?zx=23b86ba924e9a69f <--- kinda like, "whoa"

http://www.gayletter.com/

http://www.ladyfag.com/ <---- this is pretty sexy to me!

http://thetrannytimes.blogspot.com/

I also discovered:

dj AM http://vimeo.com/6369755 (not queer and unfortunetly now, dead)

Mia Moretti and Caitlin Moe (they are def not queer... but they are blonde... and well, you know...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZi0g0DBFg0

check out this music (inspired by alex karner):

Die Antwood, Evil Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbW9JqM7vho
*** needed backstory: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/06/die-antwoord-evil-bo.html


neon indian, "psychic chasms": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6uLlLqCrY

we all LOVE daft punk, "derezzed": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Afc2uzw4g

dj grum, summer mix: http://themusic.fm/2010.07.06/grum-offers-us-tour-dates-summer-mix


AND for your catalan lesbian awareness, check out this film (thanks atiya): Eloise's Lover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCI4By5r5Xo


EX OH EX OH.

all the places in the world/shifted

of all the places of the world there is one i like to call home
it offers a stream of quiet gargles and young trees that flutter
the sunlight.
The mountains are close and distant, of blues, and grays, and purples.
the seasons change in their own accord and take me traveling with them.

This place called home has birds. It has quaint buildings and narrow streets.
has regulars and vagabonds and cats. dogs on leashes. immigrants.

during the past 26 years, I wandered.
and now this place called home has shifted.
and i can't quiet figure it out.
it's space and time and
origin set and reset and now I turn my head again.
over my shoulder again and again.
I also stop and wait. listen. observe.
yet space and time surpassed me, and i am left with lost.

I will not leap, not even my soul.
my bones are weary and my eyes dont work.
So, I will dance of all the place of the world.
I will dance again and again. And in my dancing bones my time will pass.
and with my monet eyes, my space will change.
and that will be that. and done will be done.
of all the places in the world, there is one I like to call home.

they're there

and i am here, so how is it that you say there, there.

Body Hair Rant (tangential)

Yesterday, Ona was waxing my legs while we discussed if putting makeup on my ass-zits was necessary for the upcoming performance. We decided against the makeup as we painfully ripped hot wax and hair off of my skin. Clearly makeup would be too much.

Can I just say, WTF? Why do contemporary dancers have such old school contructs such as:

1. hair between a woman's legs: doesn't exist.
2. neither does hair on her legs.
3. she is also hairless under her arms.
4. if hair in these areas of a female-sexed body is exposed during a performance, it is distracting from the dance and deemed inappropriate.
5. women preferably have small perky breasts. If they are bigger, make sure that they are well covered and also not distracting.
6. if a man and a woman compete in an audition, the man will probably get the part, because he is male-bodied and possibly more athletic, able, and interesting on stage than a woman, regardless of what the audition actually shows. If a woman wears a softie, will she have more chances? Maybe she could start taking T.
7. it is better if a female dancer's head hair is long (think pina bausch)-- this is more beautiful.
8. tomboy, sort-hair female-bodied dancers are cool, but they still shave their legs, pussy, and armpits.
9. dancers of any gender or sex, don't have zits on their ass.
10. in a time of crisis, when none of us have any money or grants or auditions, we should still compete heavily with each other: dance is inherently competitive.
11. ballet and modern win. linear hegemonic narrative wins.
12. auditions are still functional.
13. dancers are inherently poor, overworked, underpaid.
14. "this person can dance. This other person cannot dance." and finally, "when you are old, you cannot dance."
15. the word "emerging" means "young"
16. dancers must be 150% all the time, no matter what.
17. it is o.k. if a dancer does not get paid.-- even the dancer accepts this fact.
18. if you, as a dancer, do not agree with #'s 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, then you do not have what it takes to be a dancer. (it's fine, you can become a dance critic!)


my response to these absurdities: suck my dildo!

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE

Role Call comes to Barcelona!

La Caldera Obert, http://www.lacaldera.info/noumenu/cat/obert.htm

Saturday, November 6th 8 pm

Free.