January 2012
3 posts
Hot Brown Bitch Burlesque
I’m performing at this with LOCA! Except I’m doing a poem, not burlesque; I’m also not brown; but hot bitch right? Three shows only, don’t miss it.
HOT BROWN BITCH BURLESQUE: her body the dish
Starring: Candy Bowers (of Sista She), Lisa Fa’alafi, LOCA, Lilikoi Kaos, Kim Kaos & the notorious Busty Beatz
Venue: Red Bennies, 373 Chapel St, South Yarra Victoria,...
December 2011
1 post
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Upcoming: 2012
It seems I’ve got quite a few spoken word performances lined up during Midsumma:
Love Me, Love Me Not (Thu 19 Jan at Bar Nancy, curated by Lisa-Skye)
Rapid Fire - 12 Writers, 6 Minutes (Fri 20 Jan at Hares & Hyenas)
What a Piece of Work: Queer Verse (Mon 30 Jan, also at H&H)
I’m also likely to make an appearance at Word is Out Poetry Slam (Mon 23 Jan at H&H) to defend...
October 2011
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Exotic Escape
textaqueen:
The Ladies of Colour Agency’s “Exotic Escape”
felt-tips on paper, 127 x 97cm, 2011
Part of We Don’t Need Another Hero, Texta Queen’s drawing series featuring people of colour as outlaws from their post-apocalypse, drawn as if posters for fictional movies.
The artist says:
As an artist of colour, my racialised existence has inherently informed my work, but this...
April 2011
5 posts
Launch of Peril #10: SKIN →
Online Asian-Australian arts and culture magazine Peril launches Issue 10, “Skin”, featuring stories about comic duo Fear of a Brown Planet, visual artist Gary Lee, trans Japanese celebrity Ai Haruna, Minister Penny Wong, the gentrification of Footscray and a selection of poetry.
Friday 8 April 7:30pm
Hares & Hyenas, 63 Johnston St, Fitzroy VIC
free entry
The launch will...
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Chinese-Australian i hate the hyphen – feigning simultaneity rarely available a horizontal bar denying vertical power frontal collision these words are no clasped hands no piano keys, sister cities but lines in the sand guiding police chineseAustralian the camelCaps compound is rightly awkward lumbering, burdened, lopsided — a strange animal bearing...
Peril magazine » Blog Archive » Fissures and... →
I notice women of colour on television, in the paper, across the dance floor. It’s a fractured identity and a tenuous solidarity, I know. But it’s there.
It wasn’t always there. I became a woman of colour only a few years ago, through my involvement in anti-racist networks. When I say someone shares my background, often I mean my background in student activism, and then what might be...