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Midwest GenderQueer’s travels and in media: videos, radio, photos, etc

Tonight! The Black Mondays Celebrate 5 Years!

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Tonight my troupe, The Black Mondays, are celebrating our 5 year anniversary. Can’t believe it’s really been 5 years, but then, time flies when you’re having fun.

Sucio Sanchez and I, our first show on the road in 2006.  Sucio is retiring tonight….

[image description: two young drag performers, one femme black hair and brown eyes wearing in a polka-dot dress and smiling into the audience  – one masculine, Midwest GenderQueer with brown hair is looking down and smiling, wearing in a white shirt, black tie, and suspenders, dancing together]

Rama Lama, what became our signature number for years, if not still to this day. (I’m the blonde in the pink shirt on the left, lol)

[image description: performers in brightly colored skirts and shirts folded around an androgynous figure in a tuxedo jacket and top hat]

Finally started getting political onstage: Bad Romance was my  first “trans” piece, and a real break out for me as a performer. I couldn’t have gotten the courage to do it without them.
[image description: androgynous performer – Midwest GenderQueer with pink hair in a costume made of a yellow caution tape top, poofy bubble wrap skirt, and gold heels. To the right, a figure in a black mask and business attire – white shirt, black skirt, and black tie.]

Here’s to 5 more years, friends. <3


 

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Come on out, Ohio for the CAUSE Conference, hosted by Equality Ohio and the Columbus College of Art and Design! And, for a bonus, Columbus’ queer youth even, Fusion Friday is jumping on board to throw a party! And at that party, I’m producing a drag show! Then come to the conference tomorrow for lots of cool workshops, including two by me on all kinds of cool transy topics. Lots going on here, lots of layers. Be there!

Drag History!

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Come watch history unfold when one of the oldest drag troupes in the country, my dear, dear friends  The Royal Renegades, celebrate their 10 year anniversary! If you’re in Ohio come on out! If you’re not, try to get here because I’m going to be wearing my multiple new pairs of hot pants in several numbers. Incentive enough? I thought so.

Ginger’s Mystery Box Show!

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Tonight! 5th Annual Ginger’s Birthday Mystery Box will steam up Wall Street Nightclub in downtown Columbus. Pre-sale tickets are only $5, and proceeds will benefit the Equality Ohio Education Fund, a non-profit, state-wide organization focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocacy and education.

Gender Queeries Tour!

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This Spring I will be embarking on a fantastic adventure down the East coast and into the South with two of my good friends, Johnny Blazes and Ignacio Rivera. Together we have created a great project called Gender Queeries.

GenderQueer, Gender Queeries! Glitter, Sparkle, Pop!

(I made the drawing myself! Yay art.)

Johnny is one of my favorite backstage buddies. Ze’s always good for a make up tip, and we often are the only folks in our genderfucking genderqueer ilk at shows, so we bond over that. This past October at the International Drag King Community Extravaganza Johnny and I looked at one another and said “How is it we haven’t done a project together yet?” So right then and there we decided to put something together. Ignacio and I had  been casually dreaming of doing something together for a while, and here was the opportunity. It was clear that the three of us together would be a show of GenderFucked Fabulousness at its best. We came together and glitter! sparkle! pop! Out came Gender Queeries!

Gender Queeries a collaborative performance of  each of our individual styles of performance through drag, burlesque, dance, spoken word, film, poetry and vaudeville. In addition to the performance pieces we are also doing workshops on topics like trans and genderqueer theory, gender performance, trans-activism, gender identity disorder, sexual liberation, and more!  I think this is going to be quite the show, so if you’re in Philly, Baltimore, DC, Richmond, Durham, Charlotte, or Atlanta, hit us up! If you’re not, hit us up anyway and we’ll try to come to you! You can also find Gender Queeries on Facebook!

New Videos!

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Check out new Midwest GenderQueer spoken word, dance, and drag videos!

Visit the YouTube page for more new spoken word, dance, and drag videos!

And now all MWGQ videos have a subtitled option, which I am very excited about. I have been working to find ways to make my online presence as accessible as possible, and the subtitling is a super addition to that. So, woot! I can’t speak any other languages fluently because I’m an ignorant American BUT Spanish subtitling will hopefully be coming at some point if I can find some way to coax some of my bilingual friends to do stuff for me via cooking and sewing favors.

If you have videos of your own, you should go to Universal Subtitles and add subtitles to your work. Its very easy to do, and doesn’t take as much time as you would think. Plus, making accessible work is always worth the extra time.

Advances in Technology!

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So I have a Midwest GenderQueer Facebook “fan page” now, or should I say I finally buckled to fellows’ suggestions for me to make one. So to label yourself as a “fan” of mine, which I suppose means you will keep me cool either by your electric spinning blades or by standing near me in adoration and waving a palm branch… or perhaps something in between… check it out! And check out my drag troupe The Black Mondays on facebook too!

I labored extensively through OCD and photo editing. Enjoy!!

I’d like to point out how ironic it is that the ‘advances in technology’ post somehow got double posted….