And MWGQ will also be presenting several workshops at the the next day at the 3rd Annual TransOhio Transgender & Ally Symposium OSU Student Union!
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Midwest GenderQueer’s travels and in media: videos, radio, photos, etc
VACATION!
See you in August when my vacation from blogging – when I’ll be doing other work that is not blogging so really its not a vacation at all – is over. In the meantime, please enjoy this picture of what i could be doing at this very moment.
[image: Sunny, green grass hilltop with bushes. JAC is jumping in the air excitedly with a vista of Cincinnati, Ohio and the Ohio River in the background. Graphic reads – “I’m off doing awesome shit that you’ll eventually hear about.”]
The Black Mondays Celebrate 4 Years!
This past weekend, The Black Mondays drag troupe celebrated our four year anniversary! It was a fantastic show with a great crowd. Its hard to believe its been four years since I was an awkward “Jammie JAC” in my bunny slippers, boxers, and home-made kimono robe collecting tips at the troupe’s 2nd show ever. Lol, yes, that is how I got started in drag; collecting tips in my underwear and bunny slippers. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Jammie JAC” – BullFishes Bar in Cincinnati, Ohio 2006
[image: JAC with brown hair, brown eyes bowing to an audience, partly holding open a red robe with a white tank top showing underneath and brown and white bunny slippers]
Blast from the past! Drag in Cincinnati has become such a different scene from what it was back then; back when shows were selling out the bar, and the bar next door. Practicing in tiny kitchens and boiling living rooms on the west side, or in the old dive dyke bar until 8am, watching our recorded routines huddled around the the tiny screen of a bulky 1990s camcorder – where now with my Flip camera we record practices and then watch them full screen on a computer a few minutes later. (I don’t know if you can fully appreciate how amazing that is, but trust me it is – hence I randomly put it in this post.) And JAC McFaggin’, the Euro-star who wanted so badly to be a badass king now turned genderfucking crossdresser embracing his gayness – a totally unexpected development, but I couldn’t be more pleased.
The Troupe performing at BullFishes Bar, 2006
[image: group of drag king and femme performers circled on stage, boys are in black and white, femme one in white dress singing with two in black corsets and poofy colored skirts]
I am excited to see where the next years will take us in our drag exploits. In the meantime, and speaking of technology, enjoy some fabulous videos! I unexpectedly undertook choreographing “Confessions” from Glee two weeks before the show (which I wasn’t thrilled about, and otherwise would not work with Glee material). Never heard the song, didn’t know a thing about it. We did it as a boys number and I even surprised myself at the butchness of the moves, which in the end I myself still didn’t execute butchly which was expected. Notice all the fists! Masculine! RAWR! More videos to the show can be found at The Black Monday’s YouTube Channel.
Videos under the cut!
MWGQ On the Radio-oh-oh
Listen to your favorite pink-haired GQ blogger talk about blogging, the Midwest, and more online at BreakThroughRadio.com, Anatomy of a Blogger: Midwest GenderQueer
The show premiers this week and will be the broadcast archives FOREVER, or until the internet explodes. So if you don’t get to listen to it right away, some day when you’re desperately bored and your MP3 player is dead, you can listen to me go on and on about queer stuff. And other than my somewhat awkward stumbling over trying to define ‘genderfucking femme boy’… and several other things, I don’t feel the need to run and hide cause due to extreme self-deprecating shyness. So you can listen to my pseudo-competentness. Ha! now you REALLY wanna listen, right? Freak event! HA! pun, cause it IS a freak event, both in its rarity and the presence of myself, a freak. The tunes are pretty sweet too, and from what I can tell, fabulously queer. The music also includes special appearances by the band Why? – whose artists Yoni and Josiah Wolf, I’ve known since I was a kid. Good times.
Special shout outs to Thompson, the super cool DJ who invited me on the program, Hunter Stuart of Stuart Productions!
KINGSTOCK!
Come out and see all us super-queers in Madison, Wisconsin tonight at the Barrymore Theater for Kingstock!
JAC in Oxford, Ohio!
Come for a fantastic series of genderqueering events at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. I am excited to perform with my fantastic friend Goddess Orie, it’s gonna be a great time. Check it out, the fliers are linked to the facebook events.
Lounge Lizards and Ladies
Highlights from the last Dangrous Productions show in Columbus before they hit the road for their travelin’ tour of tasty…trag… aka drag. Dangerous Productions is the baby-babes of Gavin Danger, who if you didn’t already know, is kinda a big deal and an amazing mentor. He knows his shit. We are all sad to lose him and his partner to the rest of the country, but we all warned him he’d be back, cause that’s how the Midwest rolls. You always come back!
Gavin Danger and I after the show
[image: Gavin Danger in a suit, bow tie, top hat, and handle bar mustache with JAC -pink hair and brown eyes – both smiling at the camera]
The show, Lounge Lizards and Ladies, was hosted by the fabulous Miss Tamale and Goldie Peacock and featured performers from Ohio (including the Black Mondays and yours truly), Chicago, NYC, D.C., and probably a bunch of other places I can’t remember. I was thrilled to see Goldie because we haven’t hung out since IDKE back in October, so that was a fun. And Tamale and I, who are usually rushed from each other at show’s end, had a fabulous ice cream date the following day. I was psyched to be back with my troupe, no duh, I love them. I also worked out a new number for this show which I am super pleased with and it is the best outfit I have made to date. FAB-U-LOUS. I did full sewing on the petticoat skirt but the top is actually a dress I like too much to alter, so I safety pinned the hell out of it, as is my trademark in drag costuming.
[image: JAC, pink hair, lipstick and blue eye make-up in a teal short dress and a long fuschia poofy skirt that is the same color as JAC’s hair. With one hand he is holding skirt back to show legs and teal underwear with sparkly light pink tennis shoes and with the other hand holding a teal high heel with a bow on the toe and kissing it.]
Tamale has decided when she gets rich from her burlesque career (which I anticipate to be around when my activist career starts to cut the big checks) I will become her personal dresser / safety pin tailor. I did a beastly job on this dress, if I do say so myself.
[image: Tamale in a green formal dress, leg up being held by JAC who is wearing a teal short dress with fuschia sequins]
And yes, I ran around in that little outfit pretty much all night, which actually surprised me. The petticoat comes off in the number so I was pants-less all evening… and in girls underwear for the 1st time in I have no idea how long. I was actually really comfortable, maybe because I knew my outfit was supper cute! My shoes (the heels) were actually where the outfit came from, and Tucson (during IDKE XI) is where the shoes came from. When I got the shoes all I could think was I needed ruffly butt underwear to match. So I got some, and they were a big hit.
[image: JAC in teal outfit, bending over looking shocked, showing ruffle butt teal underwear. His butt is grabbed and bitten by some attractive Black Mondays performers]
The End
Drag Video from MBLGTACC
Featuring the MadKings, Drag King Rebellion, Davina DeVille, and yours truly as JAC McFaggin’
By Youtube’s Nomming. who are you, Nomming?? Thank you!
MWGQ in a Magazine!
Check out Midwest GenderQueer in Fusion Magazine!
