Friday, January 30, 2009

Calling Moz Fans-Please Repost!!!

Forwarding for my friend Mel:


Calling all Handsome Devils, Charming Men, and Famous International Playbois:

Are you a Butcha who loves Morrissey/the Smiths? Do you have pomp-envy? Do you have a favorite Moz/Smiths song you would "sing" if you ever performed Morrissey in drag?

If SO…then I want to perform with YOU!

Sappho's return is looking for a few good butch/bois who would love to perform Morrissey in drag as part of a vintage fashion show to be held in July, 2009, at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center.

If you're interested (or know a fine butcha who is), reply to Mellie Von Butch on Myspace or email wmn_hollering@yahoo.com

*Please include a list of your Top 3 Moz/Smiths songs that you would want to perform*

**Please Repost**

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Some Upcoming Events I'm attending

Compania Alma Y Corazon Flamenco
Under the Artistic Direction of Briseyda Zarate
Presents
"FLAMENCA"
A woman's truth told through the passionate and percussive heart beat of FLAMENCO
music, song and dance.
Sunday February 8, 2009 @ 7pm
The Bootleg Theater--2220 Beverly Blvd., LA 90057
$25-purchase tickets on-line at www.bootlegtheater.co

The Panza Monologues
The Panza Monologues is an original performance piece based on women's stories about their panzas--tu sabes, that roll of belly we all try to hide--revealing the lurking truths about women's bodies, thoughts, lives, loves, abuses, and lived conditions.
U-SU Theatre Calstate L.A.
Call the Cross Cultural Centers at (323) 343-5001 for more information.
Friday, February 27, 2009 7:00PM

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center Presents
World Premiere!
BRUISING FOR BESOS
Written and performed by ADELINA ANTHONY
Directed by ROSE MARCARIO
The Davidson/Valentini Theatre
Feb. 20 – March 15
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 7 p.m.
Benefiting the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles
(One block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)
Free parking across the street from the theater

TICKETS: $20/ $15 with valid student ID. Student tickets available in person at box office only.
Available on-line at www.lagaycenter.org/boxoffice or call 323-860-7300

SAVE THE DATE!
GenderPlay
in lesbian culture

Exhibit opening – Saturday, March 14th - 3pm - 6pm
With singer & boi-wonder Phranc & performance art from Latina trio Butchlalis de Panochtitlan.

L.A.’s first-ever exhibition that explores gender and its boundaries and the changing nature of lesbian identity. Discover cross-dressers and tobacco-chewers of the American Civil War and the Wild West, stone butches, high femmes, and kiki's of the 1950s through the Lesbian Feminist 1970s to queers, bois, and20trans people of today.
See how ‘passing’ gave opportunity and language to women’s sexuality – from the Revolutionary War to genderqueer today. GenderPlay challenges our labels, asks us to re-think our stereotypes, and looks at how lesbians define ourselves & what turns us on.
All re-mixed with vintage photos, archival docs, film clips, and historic first person accounts.

ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
626 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood CA 90069
(Gallery Entrance on El Tovar)

Produced by LEX - the Lesbian Exploratorium Project & ONE Gay&Lesbian Archives,
co-sponsored by Christopher Street West/LA Pride

For details: thelexinfo@gmail.com
media: Jeanne Cordova 626-791-0665

quick random thoughts

Stolen Calls and Text Messages

'Ok babe, I have to go now'

Daily Picture Messages to remind me of how beautiful you are.

Instant Messaging until all hours of the night. Wake up holding the phone. (where I IM from when I get too tired to sit at my computer)

I look forward to the mail, now more than ever before. Don't look forward to weekends, because I can't talk to you then. *sigh*

The universe has plans for us.


I trust that after the spring, summer will come.

*Namaste*

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Calling all FEMME SHARKS to the BAY Area!!!

From the Original Queen Femme Shark herself, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, comes the following call to a protest march in the name of the lives of women of color.

FEMME SHARKS VS. THE WALK FOR LIFE SAT 1/24/09 SF 10:30

!!!!!COME PROTEST THE WALK FOR LIFE WITH THE FEMME SHARKS-
THIS SATURDAY 1/24/09, meetup at 10:30 by farmer's market in front of the FERRY BUILDING. BE ON TIME BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE MAD AMOUNTS OF PRO-LIFE JERKS!!!!!
if you're late and trying to find us, text me- (510) 809-6679

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO FOLKS!!!

p.s. if you're like, who the crap are these femme sharks, there's info about that at the tail end of this email.



as you may know, femme sharks are pro-abortion when women want to have them. we are HELLA PISSED about the upcoming walk for life because WE ALL KNOW THEY ARE FUCKING LIARS. WE KNOW THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT OUR LIVES. WE KNOW THEY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OUR CHILDREN LIVE IN. WE KNOW THAT THEY CHEERED ON ISRAEL'S INVASION OF GAZA, even though more than four hundred palestinian children died.
why are they so goddamned concerned about the decisions women need to make about their pregnancies? IT'S LIKE, BITCH, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PAY FOR MY FUCKING CHILDCARE, ARE YOU??? sharks know that the world can be really fucking shitty and sometimes money is what it comes down to, but that there's lots of reasons we make the decisions we make and
all of those reasons are fucking valid, and we don't have to justify shit, and we have nothing to atone for.

Also, for the record, ABORTION IS NOT JUST A STRAIGHT WOMEN'S ISSUE. LET'S NOT LIE, HELLA GAY GIRLS GET PREGS. but even if it was a straight issue, we hella have straight women's backs on this shit because SHARKS KNOW THAT JUST BECAUSE WE FUCK PEEPS WHO CAN'T GET US PREGNANT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE ARE ANY BETTER THAN STRAIGHT WOMEN. sharks are in solidarity with our straight sisters.

femme sharks don't want to say we are pro-choice because the shit is so much more complex than that. FEMME SHARKS ARE FUCKING PRO REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, and we believe that we're going to see it this lifetime. THERE'S LOTS OF SHIT THAT SHARKS AND SEA CREATURE ALLIES CAN DO TO PROMOTE REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, SO LET'S FUCKING DO IT
OKAY?!?!?!?!

COME PROTEST THE WALK FOR LIFE. LET'S GIVE THEM A PIECE OF OUR MINDS, AND THE FINGER. walk for life is THIS SATURDAY 1/24/09. in case you're not familiar, it's when the pro-"life"rs get together and prance around sf. it's people from all over the west coast, and there's tons of them. they have a program with some speakers too in Justin Herman Plaza

MEET UP AT 10:30 AM by the farmer's market in front of the FERRY BUILDING. LET'S BE ON TIME SHARKS because we will be outnumbered. BRING PROPS, BRING A MEGAPHONE, BRING SIGNS, especially ones that say shit like, your kids are going to grow up to be sluts like us, and U.S. out of my uterus, Iraq, or whatever sharks are feeling in their hearts. For those of us who've had abortions, maybe finding short ways to tell our stories.

AND COME WEARING YR MOST FABULOUS OUTFIT AND FINS IF YOU'VE GOT EM. let me be clear, that sharks are not trying to go to jail over the walk for "life,", but we do want to be in their faces and shit. sharks want to put it out there that ways to show our resistance can (but by no means need to) include getting as naked as is legal (tape over nipples?), and making out and shit. even though most of us can't get our partners pregnant (certainly not due to lack of trying), somehow the christian right still hates it when we have sex.

i really want this to be big. if you know me, you know this is close to my heart. femme sharks need to stand united, screaming our hearts out and fucking shit up!!! femme sharks are going to fin up and let the pro-lifers know that WE ARE GOING TO HAVE AS MANY ABORTIONS AS WE GODDAMN WANT TO/ NEED TO.

other ways to promote reproductive justice:

work on the shit that impacts the "choices" we make, like racism, classism, sexism, the prison industrial complex, the military industrial complex, child abuse, relationship violence. start in your home and in your community.

if you're bay area, volunteer at EXHALE, which is a hotline women can call to talk about their feelings about a current pregnancy or about previous abortions. (people otherwise involved in the abortion decision, partners, families, and friends can also call).

WORK AT AN ABORTION CLINIC AND TREAT PREGNANT WOMEN WITH RESPECT. lots of sharks work at clinics, or have worked at clinics, and abortion is undeniably a part of what makes us sharks. or volunteer as a clinic escort-- even in san francisco, we have protesters at the clinic

support the folks in your life who are parenting, in literal and concrete ways.

give money to an abortion fund. so many funds are out of money these days, like a lot of us are these days. but whatever you can give goes towards helping someone afford an abortion.

take care of your health. get a pap smear, get tested. if you're using birth control know how it works and what the side effects are.

in the hands of the shark pussy goddess,
zuleikha. okay, beena.
beenabeen@gmail.com

my office window



So this is it...
My office window. I love it. Being in California, I'm blessed with some amazing weather. Today, the clouds are hovering above. Slowly moving. Reminding me that things that matter, usually take time.

Time.

I normally am the kind of femme that needs things RIGHT NOW. I have NO patience. NONE.
When I want things, I want them NOW.I know this is kind of annoying, but I'm a total instant gratification whore..really.

Cut to today.

I am not going to get my way right away on this one. I know it. I might even have to wait a couple of years. My mind has no way to wrap it's head around that. Seriously. It baffles my mind. YEARS. Really? I don't know if I can do it.

Just.
take.
it.
one.
day.
at.
a.
time.

The clouds move slowly. They know how to get to where they are going.

I tell myself.

'Be mindful of time, and know that the Universe knows what it's doing..'

I burn sage and ask for Clarity

Writing this post is the beginning of my Ceremonia/Petition for Patience

**Namaste**

Friday, January 16, 2009

Note to Self...

When you ask, the Universe shall make sure that you receive.

::le sigh::

Thank you Universe

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

our 15 min of queer fame ;)

Thanks to the amazing, beautiful peeps over at Queer Eye Candy

for giving my friends and I our 15 min of queer fame ;)

**muah**

The Perfect Date

Ok...so I'm working on manifesting good/prosperous things for myself and my friends.

I know this sounds a bit petty, but let me take you on a trip. This trip is called 'Dream Date'. This is pretty much what an amazing date would look like to me...ready? Let's GO:

-Date picks me up from home

-we go to the Archlight Theater in Hollywood to go see a movie (drinks included)


-we then go to dinner in Little Ethiopia

-and of course off to a cabana at the Abbey in West Hollywood for some of their famous Martinis!!!


Of course, the date would be with an amazing woman who is worldly, loves to travel, but most of all loves to have fun and talk..

Let's see if this will work out of me this year! ::Perfect Date Here we Come!!!::

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Thank you...this is soo beautiful



Lyrics:

I slept...
Alone...
I dreamt...
That you are with me...
So I have nothing to hurry for,
if you are with me,
hurry in my dream,
and hug me before i awaken

I loved...
Alone...
I thought...
That you were with me...
So I have nothing to hurry for,
if you are with me and no one else.
hurry in my dream...
kiss me before i awaken.

So i have nothing to hurry for...
I have nothing to hurry for,
I have nothing to hurry for.
I have nothing... to hurry for.
What I wanted,
That he will not finish,
not to hurry.

Butch Bottoms

Hey everyone,
Here's another amazing project coming up from Homofactus Press! Re Post Far and WIDE!!!!

Call for Submissions
Butch Bottoms will be published by Homofactus Press.

“Butch” and “top” may sometimes seem to be attached at the hip. Many will mistakenly insist that these terms mean the same thing! They most certainly are not a package deal. You might see plenty of personal ads with “Butch Top” in the title, but the truth is out there: butch bottoms exist, and they are everywhere. It’s time that sweet place where masculinity meets bottoming is put on display by the writers who know there’s nothing finer than a butch offering up power.

I need stories about the diversity of butch bottoms: female, genderqueer, transgender, transsexual, male, intersex or just human, of any sexual orientation, bottoming, submitting, or acting on masochist desires.

Guidelines:

• Erotica only.

• Submit stories of 1500-6000 words to ButchBottomsEditor at gmail dot com.

• Put the title of your story in the subject line of the email. Each story must be emailed separately.

• Submissions must be sent as Word files with text in 12 point Times New Roman font and must be double-spaced.

• Include your legal name, pseudonym (if any) you wish to use, address, phone number, email and a bio (selected authors will be asked to update their bios prior to publication) above the title of your submission directly on the Word file.

• Unpublished material will strongly be considered.

• Previously published material will also be considered, provided you have retained your rights; please submit previous publication information (and the terms of your copyright agreement) in these cases.

• You may submit more than one piece of writing.

Send questions to ButchBottomsEditor at gmail dot com.

Submissions open 3/1/09. A submissions deadline will be announced soon.

Once selections have been made, every person who submitted work will receive an announcement.

Please post freely!

Monday, January 12, 2009

You can't beat this deal...



Ok ya'll. You guys ready for all the Inaug parties that are coming? What to wear, what to wear, what to wear is the question.

Well, we ARE in a recession...sooo FAB FEMME to the rescue. Here's an Obama T for only 44 CENTS. Yes, you heard right, 44 Cents.

check it. Order by Jan 15th for delivery by Inaug day.

http://www.vintagecotton.com/shirt/obama_inauguration_t-shirt/male

Friday, January 02, 2009

MoodyFab

Someone just called me MoodyFab and thought it was an insult..

I think NOT! I was not in a mood to talk and I guess I just should have not answered the phone...but now I'm the MoodyFab high femme bitch...

oh well!

::embracing my MoodyFab-ness::

xoxo

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Good Times with Chosen Family in New Years

Good Times at Sandra & C-rod's for New Years!! I love my chosen family!!