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LA Queer Posada

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 20, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
LA QUEER POSADA

LA QUEER POSADA

Performance Event Collective Mama Pancha’s Queer Life Rituals presents the Third Annual LA Queer Posada, featuring Payasos L.A. and the Los Angeles chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A new take on the Mexican Posada celebration, LA Queer Posada will include performances in theatre, poetry, dance and music with intercultural queer artists.

The procession will take place on Friday, December 23, 2011 and will commence promptly at 7:59 pm at The Eagle in Silver Lake (4219 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, 90029). The procession will head north on Santa Monica Blvd, then east on Sunset Blvd, and end at Los Globos Nightclub (3040 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026). Guests are encouraged to bring instruments to join the Posada Band in playing some Christmas tunes as we strut down Sunset Blvd!

This year LA Queer Posada will end its mile-long procession at Los Globos (3040 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026) where performances symbolizing the gift of the Magi will take place. The gift of the Magi will feature performances by Selah Gospel Choir, Burlesque sensation La Cholita, and more to be announced. The dance party is scheduled to follow the performances. Please note that Los Globos is 21 and over. There is no admission fee however donations will be collected to benefit the Transgender Youth Clinic of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Mama Pancha’s Queer Life Rituals is a performance, party, right-of-passage collective that serves the LGBT community through the creation of accessible, inclusive, and intercultural participatory spiritual happenings. The Posada is traditionally a community performance that reenacts the pilgrimage taken by Mary and Joseph as they searched for shelter leading to the birth of Christ.

LA Queer Posada is celebrated in Silver Lake to commemorate the area as a historically gay and Latino neighborhood, at a time when many markers of that history are vanishing. “This year in particular we call attention to the closing of Le Barcito, formerly The Black Cat, a landmark gay bar that launched The Advocate out of pre-Stonewall protests against LAPD raids,” says Mama Pancha. “Not only had Le Barcito become a sort of sanctuary for the gay Latino community, but they also hosted the previous two Queer Posadas and tons of other queer life rituals.”

Questions? Contact Miguel Barragan at LAQueerPosada2011@gmail.com.
For the latest La Queer Posada updates, follow us on Twitter: @LAQueerPosada.

homo-centric: donning our gay apparel

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Ofelia Del Corazon Reading At Homo-Centric

Ofelia Del Corazon Reading At Homo-Centric

I’ll be reading at homo-centric this Thursday. Internet stalking is for lazy people! Come on out and show me you’re really committed to your unhealthy obsession!

TRANScending Exclusion: A Teach-In on Trans Inclusion & Solidarity in Women’s & LGBQ Spaces in Communities of Color

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights, Projects with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Rivers Response

Rivers Response

Please join Rivers Response organizers & allied community activists from SRLP and the Kitchen Table Giving Circle for a community discussion on Trans inclusion and solidarity in women and LGBQ communities of color spaces. Through knowledge sharing, participants are invited from all perspectives to join us in a discussion about expanding inclusivity in community spaces.

With a positive spirit, the organizers hope to generate awareness and spur broad dialogue about gender and sexuality issues faced in the POC LGBTQ NYC arts community and in many other parallel community spaces.  Join us in shared conversation and learning!

For background please visit: http://riversofhoneycommunity.com/

TRANScending Exclusion:
A Teach-In on Trans Inclusion & Solidarity in Women’s & LGBQ Spaces in Communities of ColorWHEN: November 30th 2011
7:00pmWHERE: 147 W.24th Street 4th Floor
New York, NYCOST: FREESpeakers will include:

Naomi Clark, Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Social Work student & Trans Organizer in NYC

Members from Kitchen Table Giving Circle

I’m Reading On The Storytelling & Readings Stage At The West Hollywood Book Fair Sun. Oct. 2nd

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights, Personal Narrative with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 30, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
West Hollywood Book Fair Sunday, October 2nd

West Hollywood Book Fair Sunday, October 2nd

Sunday, October 2nd 2011 at 12:45p on the Storytelling and Readings Stage

I’ll be reading at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday October 2nd as part of the diversity reading on the Storytellings and Readings stage. Hank Henderson’s vision was to get six different writers who represent each of the LGBTIQ letters in our beautiful queer alphabet. Hank had facebooked me about reading but I hadn’t been able to decide which letter I wanted to represent: it turned out to be an obstacle for a number of folks and I’d later learn it seemed to be a sore issue with Hank! He pulled out a small pad of paper, scrawling my name down under the mish mash of notes in the cluttered little booklet.

“How do you identify?” He asked me flatly. This is a common question in post modern identity politicking circles. It kink felt like of like going to see a new therapist for the first time; exciting but also a little bit like a police interview.

“Squeeze me in under ‘B’ for ‘bisexual’ or ‘Q’ for queer! Whichever you need me to be!” I smiled thinking I was being accommodating  but he seemed slightly perturbed.

“Pick one. It doesn’t mean you’re not both but for the purpose of this reading Puh-lease! Just pick one!” he said sounding a bit more queenie than usual.

“Okay! ‘B’ for ‘bisexual!’” I squealed uncharacteristically chirpy.

I’ve really been feeling the love for the bisexies lately and I feel excited and proud to rep the bisexy love at the West Hollywood Book Fair. Also reading will be:
Hank Henderson

Bonnie S. Kaplan

Philip Littel

Schaffer Nelson

Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal

Sunday, October 2nd 2011 at 12:45p on the Storytelling and Readings Stage

at the West Hollywood Book Fair

www.homo-centric.com

www.westhollywoodbookfair.com

Call For Submissions: 2011 Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights, Projects with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 19, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest

Call for Submissions

We’re  currently accepting film submissions for the 3rd annual Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival. Please forward widely! Submit your short or feature film today!

Whether you’re dealing with gender-specific issues or not, we will be screen many diverse works made by trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists and our allies, including comedy, dramedy, drama, erotica, experimental, animation, and more!

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Accepting Feature Length and Short Films in all genres.
2. Complete the Festival Entry Form below.
3. Submit a DVD (Region 1) preview copy of your film/video. These items will be archived and will not be returned.
4. Include a CD of Stills (300 dpi, high resolution) if possible

DEADLINE: September 15th, no entry fee.

Mail items to:
TG Film Fest
c/o Reel Boi Productions
3504 White House Pl Los Angeles, CA 90004 U.S.A.

Click the link below to download the submission form.

2011 Transgender Film Festival Call For Submissions

Questions? Contact us at info@tgfilmfest.com

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Who are we?
TG Film Fest: The Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival was founded in 2009 to increase visibility for powerful films by trans and genderqueer filmmakers. Started in response to the lack of transgender people in the media, the TG Film Fest showcases works by established and emerging trans and genderqueer filmmakers. We promote filmmakers to new audiences with encore “best of fest” screenings at colleges and organizations throughout the year.

While you’re at it, submit to the SF trans film fest too! Our friends Shawna Virago and Sean Dorsey run the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and they’re amazing! Submit to both! 
CALL FOR ENTRIES San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
November 3-6, 2011 San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTGFF) seeks entries for its 2011 Festival (November 3-6, 2011). SFTGFF accepts narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films and music videos. All work should be created by transgender/genderqueer people. All work submitted this year must be 20 minutes or under. Please only submit one film.

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, aka Tranny Fest, was founded in 1997 as the nation’s first transgender film festival. In the 14 years since, we have exhibited groundbreaking, provocative, outrageous, courageous, moving and innovative works that show the complexity of lives lived on the transgender/ genderqueer spectrum. The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: September 1, 2011
Early submissions are encouraged. There is no entry fee.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM
1. Download and complete the Entry Form and print a copy.
2. Send your Entry Form and one copy of your work (DVD only) to:
SF Transgender Film Festival
c/o Fresh Meat Productions
P.O. Box 460670
San Francisco, CA 94146-0670 USA
3. Email a 300-dpi (high resolution) JPG image for your film to freshmeatinfo@gmail.com.
4. We will email you notification when your submission has been received.

GUIDELINES
1. Please include all required materials when submitting your entry – don’t forget to email us a JPG for press purposes (All work must be 20 minutes or less! No exceptions).
2. We cannot return any submitted materials.
3. We will notify you if your work is accepted by September 10th.
4. Once a film is submitted, it may not be withdrawn for any reason.
5. For questions or more information, contact: freshmeatinfo@gmail.com.

Call for Volunteers
The TG Film Fest is working on a fundraiser to support our next festival and could use help with online promotions. We also need help with data entry, contacting sponsors and advertisers for the festival, and promoting the call for submissions to filmmakers.
If you are interested, email info@tgfilmfest.com to learn more.

THE GAY PHOTO SHOOT at ONE Archives Sunday, August 14th

Posted in Cross Posts, Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 2, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Warhol Factory Folks

Warhol Factory Folks

ONE NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN ARCHIVES         PRESENTS

THE GAY PHOTO SHOOT
           at
ONE Archives

Sunday, August 14th
12:00 noon – 6:00 PM
909 West Adams Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90007

(213) 741-0094

On Sunday, August 14th, be transformed by history and frozen in time as a cherished member of a tableau vivant-style
GAY PHOTO SHOOT at ONE archives.

Calling all haggard bull daggers and baby dykes, saucy queens, bossy bisexuals, telepathic transgenders, ambidextrous allies, leathery leather daddies young and old, interested intersex people, soft butches, closet cases, as well as staff, board members, volunteers and friends of ONE Archives! Join us and strike a pose with an archival object!

Comb the collections of ONE and model a costume, animate an Act-Up protest placard, display a book or painting from the Archives on your body. Bear your teeth, your breasts, your behind or cover your entire head with an overturned archival storage box and remain anonymous! Invent a pseudonym for the day, a dynamic or deadpan persona. Impersonate or channel the spirit of your favorite LGBT mentor with your photogenic gestures and creativity! Practice your poker face, your camera face and be fabulous or discrete.

Above all, BE THERE ON SUNDAY AUGUST 14, 2011.
Light refreshments will be provided
and the shoot is guaranteed to be a hoot!

The final photo will appear as an limited edition full color posters on the inside book jacket of the much anticipated Cruising the Archives catalogue that ONE Archives is publishing for the forthcoming Pacific Standard Time exhibition in conjunction with the Getty Institute. This event is organized by artist and recent USC MFA graduate, Onya Hogan-Finlay.

If you would like to participate please RSVP to Onya Hogan-Finlay: onyahoganfinlay@gmail.com

Hollywood Queer Open Mic And Workshop: Featured Writer: JACK TANGLE Friday, July 29

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 27, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest

 

 

My dear friendRyka Aoki de la Cruz has asked me to run this month’s Hollywood Queer Open Mic & Workshop and I couldn’t be more delighted. We have a stellar line up of featured performers including one of my favorite LA storytellers, Jack Tangle. Also reading is  Christine Beatty, author of Misery Loves Company & Not Your Average American Girl,  Diviana X Ingravallo, Moe Macarow and  author and journalist Jeanne Cordova. Jean Cordova’s books include Kicking the Habit, a Lesbian Nun Story, and Sexism; It’s a Nasty Affair, her work has appeared in numerous anthologies.  

Hollywood Queer Open Mic & Workshop

Hollywood Queer Open Mic & Workshop

The venue, BHS, is humble but I have a strong affection for it: it’s where Ryka started the Trans/Giving shows (by the way if anyone wants to start organizing that show again talk to me, collectives grow and change but there hasn’t been a show in over a year!) began eight years ago.   The Hollywood Queer Open Mic is a fantastic space to workshop new material and I hope you’ll join us either as a reader or a member of the audience.

July Hollywood Queer Open Mic & Workshop |

Featured: JACK TANGLE Friday,

July 29 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm

Behavioral Health Services, Inc.

6838 West Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA

BEHOLD! – A Queer Performance Festival

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 16, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest

Queer Mondays at Highways in Santa Monica
Queer Mondays at Highways in Santa Monicain 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of my favorite theaters in LA, HIGHWAYS Performance Space is hosting 2 months of new LGBTQ performance, dance, spoken word, theater, multi-media, and ritual!

I’ll be reading at QUEER MONDAYS on July 25th!  My reading is only $5 so you should totally come check it out!
For complete festival info, scheduling updates, and festival additions, visitwww.highwaysperformance.or​g

All performances $20 general admission & $15 members/students/seniors, unless otherwise indicated. A festival pass, which admits you to all events, is $75.
Fri + Sat, July 22 + 23 @ 8.30pm
RICK PULOS / RYAN REPERTORY COMPANY -
“Decades Apart: Reflections of 3 Gay Men”

This multimedia work from New York-based artist, performer and writer Pulos captures significant moments in the lives of three gay American men living and surviving in 1970s San Francisco, 1980s
New York City, and 1990s Los Angeles.

Monday, July 25 @ 7:30 pm
QUEER MONDAYS
(hosted by Ian MacKinnon)
This non-elitist LGBTQ experimental performance series takes place on the last Monday of every month.
$5 @ door

Friday + Saturday, July 29 + 30
Sunday, July 31 @ 7.30pm
KDUB Dance – “Liminal Bust”
Choreographer Kevin Williamson tackles jarring states of unrest and ardor. Five people sit in a
waiting room – struggling whether to delay or take
actions against their predicament. The dancers test
their physical landscape in an attempt to uncover
something deeper than the empty space that
surrounds them.

Friday, August 5 @ 8.30pm
DALE GUY MADISON A.K.A DAMNGOODMAN -
“My Life in 3 Easy Payments”
Spoken word performance artist and former QVC shopping host Madison speaks to the pop culture phenomenon of reality shows and the quest for fame at any cost.

Saturday, August 6 @ 8.30pm
CATHERINE SCOTT BURRISS – “What Comes Naturally”
Featuring opening act TIM MILLER (with a short performance)
Burriss’ new work negotiates the fraught intersection of the personal and the political, grappling with queer marriage and queer birth when majority rule is tyrannizing one and malpractice rules are traumatizing the other.

Friday + Saturday, August 12 + 13 @ 8.30pm
SEAN DORSEY DANCE – “Uncovered: The Diary Project”
Using text from real-life diaries of transgender and queer people, Uncovered’s powerful dances reveal lives and stories that history has tried to erase. Out spill diary secrets, bathhouse antics, pop idols, outrageous love, impossible courage and the importance of documenting and sharing our history.

Friday + Saturday, August 19 + 20 @ 8.30pm
IAN MACKINNON
“Gay Hist-Orgy! Part 2 : The Search for Gay Love!”
The cyber-sexual time traveling hot-pants have gotten a new upgrade, and with the help of his genie guide and leather daddy queer theory professor friend, performance artist activist MacKinnon searches history, mythology, psychology, and pornography to findthe greatest love affairs of all time.

Sunday, August 21 @ 7.00pm
SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE – “West Hollywood Squares”
A game show where audience members become the contestants and The Sisters are the panel.

Friday – Sunday, August 26 – 28
2ND ANNUAL TWO-SPIRIT WEEKEND
A weekend honoring a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many indigenous cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders. Join us for a screening of the award winning documentary Two Spirits with a panel discussion with LGBT healers, a cornucopia of LGBT healers on a HEALING SPA DAY, an evening RITUAL & FIRE CEREMONY with your drag queen shamaness Eartha Madre, and a GREEK DREAM TEMPLE / SLEEPOVER including, of course, a fabulous BRUNCH and DREAM WORKSHOP to explore your deepest mysteries! visitwww.highwaysperformance.or​g for complete schedule

Monday, August 29 @ 7:30 pm
QUEER MONDAYS

Émile Bonnet: Tales of A Teenage Crossdresser And His Mistress

Posted in Personal Narrative with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 28, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest

I had decided that I would fall in love with Émile Bonnet before I’d ever even met him. He possessed so many desirable qualities: he was my junior high school boyfriends foreign exchange student, 19 and french. I loved Émile because he was smart and worldly and he did what I wanted him to do.

When he arrived we stayed up late sitting out on the picnic bench in my boyfriends families backyard.  The breeze from the ocean cooled our sweaty skin and carried with it the pungent aroma of the tomato cannery and the garlic fields that surrounded my tiny village. Émile and I laughed and flirted as the yard sizzled and hummed with the sounds of frogs and crickets and the world was wonderful and smelled like spaghetti.

Émile  showed me photos of his college hazing, regaling me with tales of being made to run around Paris on a scavenger hunt covered in raw eggs and carmel sauce in only his underpants. In one such photo Émile was standing atop a formica table before a blackboard in a lecture hall. He wore an ill fitting french school girls uniform that one of his classmates had brought with her from home. He sang into a child’s toy microphone, head thrown back, chest thrust forward and he looked positively radiant.  Not in the least humiliated.  I had already begun dressing my boyfriend in my goth girl drag and my approval and subsequent titillation were all the incentive Émile needed to become my cross-dressing femme entertainment.

One summer afternoon I bleached his outdated Beatles bowl haircut and dyed it bright pink. He rinsed the dye out in my shower and he stained his entire face (and my bathtub) Manic Panic fushia.  I sent him home on the skate board he borrowed from my boyfriend. I had no desire to make out with his tomato face.

He was a good kisser but his breath often smelled of anchovies, which he ate almost daily. I knew of no other teenagers who ate anchovies or the kind of hot mustard that stung your nose and made your eyes well up with tears when you swallowed.

Just a A French Teenage Crossdresser & His Mistress

Just a A French Teenage Crossdresser & His Mistress

After he returned to Paris we maintained a love letter romance for about a year and a half before one of us eventually lost interest and we fell out of touch. I will always remember  Émile in photos. Émile the naughty schoolgirl. Émile the pink haired teenager in a red pleated skirt and silver thigh high stockings. Émile the slutty goth girl in my driveway blowing kisses from beneath the shade of my Ren-Fair head dress. Because that summer, in America, in Gilroy, Émile was fearless.

Webcam “Domination”; Garbage Fetish & Snuff Fantasies Misinterpreted

Posted in Sex, Sexwork Is Real Work with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2010 by Mommy Fiercest

I use to do a lot more webcam sessions. I think webcamming was My gateway drug into Professional Domination. I certainly learned many skills from being on cam for so many years…. How to weield verbal humiliation like a deadly weapon… How to enthrall a man with the flick of a wrist of the bat of an eye lash. I take come calls on NF and others come through from the ads I place for real time domination all over the U.S. I love international callers though sometimes things are lost in translation… Like the guy who had a trashbag fetish… He kept saying “I want to be stuffed in a garbage bag and thrown away! Let the garbage men take me away!” The first thing I had clarify… “Are the trash bags clean or dirty?”

“Clean” He responded.

I misinterpreted this brief exchange of information to be a snuff fantasy… I had never heard of garbage bag fetish (he liked the 52 Gallon industrial gardener size) so I spun a beautiful snuff fantasy… I would cut him up into a thousand pieces… Stick a knife through his heart and carve him to bits… Toss him into a garbage bag that was leaking blood and guts and let the trash men make the morbid discovery… We webcammed for 30 minutes. He loved me.

It wasn’t until the next time we cammed I learned he didn’t actually want to be maimed and killed. It was more like a latex encasement fetish… I am not sure why he chose to call me back. He was actually a very steady customer. He called Me almost every day I was online. Perhaps he hadn’t understood My words that day either. Perhaps he just loved the way I moved and the inflections of My speech.

I learned so much about different types of fantasies and fetishes through camming. If someone came to be with something I didn’t know I’d jujust do a quick google search and tell them to tell me about their favorite fantasy… People love to talk about themselves and it’s a great distraction while I am googling youtube videos like this one…

GarbageBagBoy (my nickname for him) nearly busted a nut over that video. After that he called Me nearly everday. He would cry about being broke. “Then take out another credit card” I would tell him.

“Yes, Ma’m'… Are you my girlfriend?” He would ask sometimes.

“Yes, GarbageBagBoy, I am your girlfriend.” I would say, knowing that he couldn’t possibly believe it was true.

“Oh, good, because I told my family about you and I showed them your picture.” I can’t possibly know if this is true. If so, which photo of me did he show them!??? In the beginning I would have gently broken it to him that I was not his girlfriend. In the beginning I was kinder and more ethical. The problem is, guys dont’ want an ethical sex worker. They want someone who will cater to their fantasy even if it’s killing them.

Like the guys who do so much CBT (cock and ball torture) that their dicks are limp, flacid and often discolored. Who am I to tell a person what they can and can’t do with their bodies. Some of the callers/webcam clients were so self loathing I would try to give them pep talks… But no one wants a pep talk from a dominatrix. They want to be degraded and made to feel worthless…

What I learned over time, was that this was often part of an act. Like one client of mine who likes to act completly STUPID in our sessions. Or the way sissies often gravitate toward the archetype of the “Dumb Bimbo Slut”. They’re roles that people play but the only thing is when you are dealing with clients who mostly only interact with professionals they’re almost always “In role”. Unlike lifestyle BDSM where we spend so much time making negotiations and talking it out the people paying want to jump right into the fantasy. Why pay $2.99 a minute for talking about limits and feelings?

There is often a misconception that clients have that Pro Domme’s are always “in role”. It’s hard to determine which clients have a little bit more knoledge about BDSM. When they have limited knowledge it’s usually clear. They say things like “I am your complete slave! I am on my knees right now!”. Most of their knowledge about BDSM comes from fantasy fiction written by a lot of other guys who also don’t really know anything about BDSM. Or it’s written by dommes who know how to write to the fantasy.

I like to educate My clients about safe, sane and consensual BDSM but it’s so often not what their expectation is that many claim it “ruins the fantasy”.

I admit in real time sessions I sometimes forget to give a safeword or my aftercare is a pat on the back, a clean towel and a bottle of water…

All in all I think I do a fair job about educating them while trying to maintain the illusion of 24/7 Dominance! I’m not saying that there aren’t relationships in my life that run a 24/7 dynamic but that doesn’t mean we don’t stop to breathe, take a look at one another and check in.

At least I’ve never had a non consensual snuff scene with one of my play partners. I am not sure they would call me again!

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