Reminder: REBEL GIRL: a riot grrrl nostalgia show at African Americ... @ Thu Jun 3 8pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » REBEL GIRL: a riot grrrl nostalgia show at African American Cultural Center REBEL GIRL: a riot grrrl nostalgia show Thursday, June 3, 2010 8:00pm African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco 762 Fulton Street Tickets: $12-$20 Buy Tickets On-line (snatch 'em up fast, they will sell out!): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110826 More (slightly outdated) info here: http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest10/SFinX.html Featuring: MELIZA BANALES RED DURKIN LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA MARTHA & THE NICOTINES BILLIE RAIN Hosted by GINA DE VRIES Riot grrrl was a youth and punk-oriented radical sociopolitical movement that captivated the hearts, minds, raging hormones, and feminist rage of many queer and trans teen girls in the nineties. Join the National Queer Arts Festival and San Francisco in Exile for a Riot Grrrl Revival. Past and present zinestars and grrrl revolutionaries will wax nostalgic about the old days, and let you know what they've been up to recently. Zines and cupcakes will be available for purchase. CAST BIOS: MELIZA BANALES aka Missy Fuego writes books, sews clothes, and makes movies. She has toured with Sister Spit: The Next Generation and Body Heat: The Femme Porn Tour. She is currently working on a spoken-word album with Crunks Not Dead Records and another collection of short stories, Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific. She makes art in San Francisco. RED DURKIN is one of the only openly transgender stand-up comedians in the United States. In her time, she's performed as a poet, a rapper, and a story teller, but her true passion is comedy. She's performed at Camp Trans, clocked more time with the Tranny Roadshow than almost anyone else, performed for the Transgender Leadership Summit, and hosted events all over the country. Red has made it her mission to bring levity and irreverence to a community that too often has little to laugh about. A North Carolina ex-patriot, she now resides in Oakland, CA. Check her out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/daedsider LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a Worcester raised, Toronto matured, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the 2009-10 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's June Jordan Poetry for the People program and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America's only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists. She is a 2009 commissioned performer with Sins Invalid, the national performance organization of queer people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Her one woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured nationally, including performances at the National Queer Arts Festival, Swarthmore College, Yale University, Reed College and McGill University. The author of Consensual Genocide, her writing has appeared in the anthologies Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don't Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl's Guide to Taking Over The World. She is finishing her second book of poetry, Love Cake, and her first memoir, Dirty River and is happy about the forthcoming publication of The Revolution Starts At Home: Transforming Abuse Through Community Accountability, which she co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, by South End Press in 2010. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, focusing on creative nonfiction and community-based teaching by writers of color. In 1992, MARTHA & THE NICOTINES sprang fully formed from the forehead of Kathy Acker, in the form of a zine titled Jigsaw Kill. Eighteen years later they turned into a band. BILLIE RAIN is a fierce warrior lioness and old school riot grrrl who spends most of hir time horizontal and then creates bad-ass work as a filmmaker and author. GINA DE VRIES cut her artistic and political teeth on riot grrrl in the mid-nineties. She's also a queer femme Paisan pervert, and a writer, performer, and activist with a long history doing political organizing in and with queer, trans, and sex worker communities. Gina's writing has appeared dozens of places, from the academic to the pornographic – recent publications include Issue #4 of Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet, Girl Crush, and The Revolution Starts at Home. Gina has performed, taught, and lectured everywhere from chapels to leatherbar backrooms, and recent university appearances include Reed College, Yale University, and Harvard University. She is the founder and facilitator of Sex Workers' Writing Workshop, a writing class for current and former sex workers at San Francisco's Center for Sex & Culture (where she also serves on the Advisory Board), and the head curator of San Francisco in Exile, a performance series showcasing San Francisco's best up-and-coming queer underground artists. Gina is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction Writing at San Francisco State University. She likes glitter, the color fuchsia, leopard print, and political discussion as foreplay. Find out more at ginadevries.com, and keep track of her on the daily at http://queershoulder.tumblr.com. When Thu Jun 3 8pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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