Happy 2010, all!
Here’s a short list of what’s coming for me/writing ourselves whole for the first part of the year — starting next week!
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Writing Ourselves Whole – early 2010 schedule!
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Community and remembrances
(a slightly longer version of this got posted on my livejournal — katasutra.livejournal.com)
Thank you, Kathleen — thanks to your love and your consistent spirit and to the ways you have affected my life, without my even knowing it.
Yesterday was Kathleen Bolton’s memorial service, and one of the things I’d like to spend some time writing about community — community in all its bigness and struggle and frustration & magnificence. There’s been a community sustaining me here in the bay area since I moved here, though I’ve felt on the outside. There’s a community of family & the dearest of friends forged over the past two decades (and then some, I suppose, with respct to the blood family, huh?) that I’m only just now, maybe, allowing to filter into the hardened-est, most vulnerable edges of my heart. The community that showed up here in SF for the Body Heat show just about tore my heart out, it was so gorgeous and celebratory — and then the communities we got to touch into as we crossed the country: San Diego, Minneapolis, Columbia, Columbus, Easthampton, Boston, Providence, Philly, D.C., Atlanta — even those we didn’t meet directly (Milwaukee, Asheville and the folks listening to Diana Cage’s radio show there in the morning’s wee hours) — the love and support was deep and present and nearly unquestioned.
And ok, sure — sometimes, for survivor girl over here, it’s hard to trust, to believe in, that kind of presence of spirit and appreciation, that unadulterated love, that faith & yes there was trust — the kind that offers food and home to strangers, the kind that shows up to listen and offers cheers, the kind that welcomed us at each and every stop (truly).
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Three snaps up for the Phase 1!
(who remembers what that means, even … am I just dating myself? :)
So much love to all the folks at D.C.’s Phase 1 (“oldest lesbian bar on the east coast!”) for welcoming and treating Body Heat so kindly! We had the fiercest kind of love for & from y’all, esp. given that this was our first show with our Celestina back (no pun intended there, folks…)!
Angela, Kris & all the rest of y’all — thank you thank you thank you. The Phase opened specially on a Wednesday night, just for our show, and we hope it was more than worth it! V. got to come home into the loving arms of friends & community — it’s just what we need as we’re pushing down through into the final two shows!
Much love and many thanks, too, to the folks at the Tritone in Philly! We had an intimate and dear crowd, many of whom stuck around after the show to chat us up and make offers some of us found difficult to refuse… :)
Oh — the Pi is my new home…
… or could be.
It’s 2:30am and we have to be on the road at 7, and still…
What a show — so so many thanks to Shannon Blowtorch & Tara & Bennie at the Pi Bar. PEOPLE — when you’re in Minneapolis, get you to the Pi Bar. An amazing performance venue/bar/restaurant & music that will not let you get off the floor if the dancing is happening. Thank you Annie for the goodie bag!
Thank you Blowtorch & T. for the quarters & hospitality & tunes!
The Pi & the Twin-Cities Femme Mafia hosted V & I tonight for the third leg of the Body Heat tour — Kathleen rested her ailing self for one more day and so we brought her CD & her words, as we did with Celestina’s — we miss you both!
We’re coming to Minnesota!
Thunderstorms in Columbia, MO this morning — it’s s gorgeous to be in the midwest in the spring!
Today we’re off to Minneapolis for our show up there, then tomorrow we head back down to Columbia for a postponed/rescheduled show here! The weather goddess conspired against us on Sunday: snow in Vail meant a slower start than we needed to comfortably make the originally-scheduled performance in Columbia, so we’ll be coming back here for an earlier gig on Wednesday.
Please send your good, healing thoughts to Kathleen, who is having to rest and sleep to recover from some sick!! Kathleen says to call this “The Sick C*ck Tour.”
Unfortunately, we *won’t* be going to Milwaukee — we hadn’t heard that anyone had registered for our workshop there, and had to make the difficult decision to cancel that show! I really hope we can make it back there for the next tour!
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Body Heat melts the snow
I’m writing to you from Vail, CO, where we were SNOWED IN last night (I-70 closed & highway patrol directing folks off the road at 1am). Fresh! helped finagle us a room in a hotel& spa, so though we’re not terribly rested, we’re at least clean and good-smelling! :)
We had a small show in San Diego at this wicked cute sex shoppe, The Rubber Rose, and it was beautiful! Now we’re pushing through our second long long day of driving, from Colorado to Missouri. We were supposed to stay at my dad’s place last night, just outside of Denver, but were thwarted by the weather goddess. The pass is open now though, and so we can get back on the road. Maybe we will be able to see my dad the interstate just for a hug… :)
Incredible scenery yesterday, and the kinds of conversations you can only have in the car.
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Thank you SF & SD! Body Heat’s heading out toward the Midwest!
I want to write more and longer about the two tour dates so far — the standing-room-only crowd in San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture (www.centerforsexandculture.org) who sent us out & off with the most extraordinary energy; the gorgeous, dedicated crowd at the Rubber Rose here in San Diego, who gathered in to each other and opened up to us as we performed… *however*, we have a 16 hour drive tomorrow (and that’s without stops!) & so I will try to say more once we are safely ensconced in Missouri, day after tomorrow.
Thank you to Carol & Robert, to the ladies at the Rubber Rose (Carly!). Thank you T.K & Mo! Thank you to my co-performers Veronica & Kathleen — & Celestina, we miss you! Veronica read your piece this evening to & with so much love…
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Body Heat: queer femme tour kicks off tomorrow, 4/3
I have the great privilege of being a part of the Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour, which kicks off here in San Francisco tomorrow, 4/3, at the Center for Sex and Culture at 7pm.
Femmes, as some of us know, still bear an interesting burden of invisibility — our right to call ourselves dykes is called into question sometimes even still, because we don’t bear the masculine markers of more “visible” dykes (which turns into an interesting paradox), and our sexual agency is still, I think, considered to be determined by our lovers, rather than by we ourselves.
There are LOTS of fierce femme writers & performers who are calling into question these and other misunderstandings around femmeness, and I get to be on tour with three of them — Vixen Noir (aka Veronica Combs of the incredible Liquid Fire fame), Celestina Pearl (di-va writer, filmmaker & performer!) and kathleen delaney (spoken word artist out of Atlanta & a dear friend from back when I lived on the East Coast!)
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