Posts Tagged ‘transgendered’

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This Friday: Sneak Preview of ‘Riot Acts’

May 12, 2009

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Threat Level, the bi-monthly screening of queer short films, is happening this Friday and the theme is musicals. I’m not sure there is anything gayer than a trans-positive musical, so FUCKING HOORAY for that. A little more exciting though, is that this time, Threat Level is showing a sneak preview of Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, the documentary about trans-musicians produced and directed by Actor Slash Model. This film is gearing up to be the first of its kind: we’ve seen docs about certain performers, but this film will capture the state of queer music today while tackling issues related to being transgendered. Chicago has always been a hotbed for queerness, but this film will further put us on the map.

Friday, May 15th
Elegant Mr. Gallery
1355 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl
Doors 7:30pm / Screening 8:00pm
$5-10 sliding scale

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Justin Bond’s New EP – Pink Slip

April 2, 2009

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There’s so much to say about Justin Bond, but one thing is for sure: if you haven’t seen him perform live, then you don’t know that much about Justin Bond. As far as gender-fucked performace art goes, you can’t get much better than any of his cabaret shows. I’ll even be so bold as to say that a JB show rivals Kiki & Herb in relevance and comedy. So if you head over to justinbond.com and have a listen at the mp3′s he’s posted, please remember it’s all about context. I mean I can tell you how genius it was when he did Britney Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, but really you wouldn’t know unless you saw him do it. Anyway, the sexy old lady is putting out a new EP (which contains a cover of Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes”) titled Pink Slip and the cover art is shown above. Can’t wait! Also, read the touching letter he wrote to his 16 year-old self, you’ll be glad you did.

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