A Night of Comedy
2011—the year of the funny woman. Bridesmaids. Tina Fey. Amy Poehler. Bridesmaids.
But do funny women exist without Judd Apatow or Lorne Michaels?
Pre- and post- Bridesmaids, Jessica Kirson is an out lesbian who has created her own comedic path. On May 4, she makes her way toward the Colony Theatre as comedy headliner for Aqua Girl 2012 in Miami.
For complete article, see South Florida Gay News.
Charity Begins at Aqua Girl 2012
Since 1999, Aqua Girl has been one of South Florida’s most prominent fundraising festivals for girls who like girls.
Where else can you spend an afternoon by the pool at the Surfcomber, and fund the fight against LGBT bullying? Or watch a drag king show at a nightclub, and provide scholarships to women? Or see the cast of The Real L Word, and support South Florida LBT organizations with grants?
For complete article, see South Florida Gay News.
You Can’t Get Drunk During a Zombie Apocalypse or Why The Walking Dead is Better Than Mad Men
Dear Don Draper,
It’s been seventeen months since you jilted us like one of your supposedly expendable honeys.
So now you saunter back with your tailored suits, your martini lunches, your afternoon trysts on the office couch, your smoker’s cough and your smooth-as-silk advertising copy.
Well, Don. Pour yourself a drink, but don’t get comfortable.
We don’t have time to explain because we’ve got to go, we’ve got to leave the farm, now.
While you’ve been clicking through slide-shows of the1960s, we’ve had to deal with the 21st century collapse of the economy. And this new world is more about fighting zombies than chasing skirts.
It’s a world without a house in the suburbs or business/ pleasure trips to the West Coast or Italy. No bachelor pad in the city. No spoiling your daughter with tickets to The Beatles.
This new world swelters under the Georgia sun. All the cities and towns have been abandoned. The cars are stranded on the highways. We live inside of tents. Our children learn how to not be children.
We never know when we’ll have to leave everything behind. We don’t get drunk often.
Yes, you had your own collapse in the 1960s. Yes, your life of privilege can’t last.
There will be women who are not your secretaries and/or your wife. There will be people of color who don’t bring you vichyssoise or take care of your children.
But we keep waiting for you to deal with all of this. Because when everything falls apart in your world, someone does the Charleston or gets engaged to their secretary or passes out drunk.
Oh, you were seductive. We knew the world was falling apart when we met you. But we wanted illusions. We wanted to drink, smoke and fuck. We wanted to wear your suits. We wanted to be the girl in the pencil skirt.
Yes, you were lying to yourself. We know the good life is not what it appears to be. Unmarried women get pregnant. Men change their names and become someone else. Housewives sleep in their party dresses.
This is not to say that we won’t watch, and that we won’t be curious about where you end up.
But we have lost your predilection for secrets.
Extramarital affairs, walkers in a barn, what really happened with Otis, what Jenner told Rick at the CDC — secrets don’t keep well during a zombie apocalypse.
And we can’t keep waiting for you, Don Draper. We have to get through these woods full of walkers. We never sleep.
Women’s Art at The Pride Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Open Gallery Through March 31st
To celebrate Women’s History Month, The Pride Center in Fort Lauderdale is featuring an art exhibit—Women in History: Past & Present.
Although the exhibit may not be overtly political, it does present an empowering collection of photographs, paintings and mixed media.
Of course, some of the work is clearly centered on politics. Angie Sower’s digital photographs, Be Heard and Feminist Action Burn Bra, recall the Second Wave of feminism in the 1960s.
For complete post, see The Women’s International Perspective (The WIP)- The WIP Talk .
She’s Living for This on here! TV and here!
Drag queens and variety shows are a perfect fit. Both are known for campy, cabaret-style entertainment. Both have a penchant for tongue-in-cheek humor and sensory overload. And both gravitate towards glitter, sequins, and the spotlight: all the world is a stage.
In this tradition, here! TV premieres She’s Living for This on Friday, Feb. 24.
For complete article, see South Florida Gay News.
The Lesbian Revolution Will Not Be Televised—But There Could Be a Web Series
Two lesbian focused online dramas show LBT women of color and Mid-America
Lesbians who watch mainstream television and films are savvy when it comes to LBT women characters—we don’t get too attached. We are waiting for the moment when those characters get screwed (and not in a good way), like when Tara was killed on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The L Word’s final season.
But LBT women of color and LBT women in Middle America barely even exist in mainstream television and films.
For complete article, see South Florida Gay News.
SHE Magazine Celebrates 13th Anniversary and Continues Tradition of Lesbian Publishing
In the 1960s and 1970s, lesbian publications such as The Ladder and Lesbian Connection offered community-building and politics.
The 1980s and 1990s glammed it up with Curve and Girlfriends, which were like Cosmo for lipstick lesbians.
So where are we now?
In February 2012, SHE magazine celebrates its thirteenth anniversary. Based in South Florida, SHE is a free publication that reaches out to LBT women with articles on pop culture, the arts, politics, and current events.
For complete article, see South Florida Gay News.
GLOW Film Series Premieres in Fort Lauderdale
The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) premiered GLOW, a monthly LGBT film series sponsored by HBO Latin America at Miami Beach Cinematheque last September. Now the series comes to Fort Lauderdale as well.
For complete article, see South Florida Gay News.
“Girl Talk”
Work of nonfiction, “Girl Talk,” published in Gertrude Journal, Issue 17.
For copy of issue, see Gertrude Press.
“The Happy Dress”
Short story, “The Happy Dress,” published in The Battered Suitcase, Autumn 2011.
For copy of issue, see Vagabondage Press.
