Femina Potens presents:
Femina Potens Auction,Raffle, and Celebration
Celebrity & Star F*#!ers Gala
September 18th @ 7pm
465 S.Van Ness
SF,CA 94103
$5 - $10
featuring performances by Carol Queen,Michelle Tea, Tami Hart,Urban Hermitt, & The Fat Bottom Revue/ Big Bottom Burlesque Dancers, Autographed auction items by such artists as
Ani DiFranco
Carol Queen
Annie Sprinkle
Inga Muscio
Diane Diprima
Kissing booth with yummy smooches from past and present Lusty Ladies, and win an autographed copy of the April/May 2004 - On Our Backs Magazine.
Michelle Tea is the author of three memoirs, one poetry colelction, two edited anthologies and the brand new graphic novel Rent Girl. She writes for publications such as The Believer and the SF Bay Guardian, and hosts the monthly literature & cookies Radar Reading Series at the San
Francisco Public Library. She is currently at work on a screenplay and a work of utter fiction.
andre/urban hermitt
san francisco based hip hop performer and writer,
the urban hermitt strives to represent the broke
ass queers into taking back our lives whether it
be shopping at the food co-op or making homemade
sex toys. this summer, he'll be releasing a 4
track hip hop concept album about "my little
pony" "unicorns" and "girls named jennifer,
stacy, amy." last year, his novel "the flow
chronicles" was published on Microcosm, which is
a story about the modern day hippie nitemare. the
urban hermitt has been self publishing his own
zine for over 6 years, focusing on new age
facists, wanna be white boys rastas, phony
gangstas, and broken hearts. he has been featured
in the zine yearbook, the san francisco
chronicle, the tablet, the portland mercury, and
was febuary's "boyfriend of the month" in
girlfriends magazine. he also teaches zine
making, creative writing, and hip hop workshops.
interested?
Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology. First as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, where she helped found one of the first gay youth groups in the United States, and later in the emerging international bisexual community, as a sex worker and a practitioner of alternative sexualities, she typically teaches and writes from her own experience and that of her communities even as she references academic thought on these subjects.
Tami Hart is putting our faith back in the youth of America. If one lady can have two great albums under her belt, along with being in another fabulous band, Sextional, all before she even comes close to reaching her mid-20s, folks need to stand up and take notice. Not for the faint of heart, Tami Harts bittersweet melodies are redefining solo songwriting as we know it. Go to www.mrlady.com for more on this fabulous lady.
Heather MacAllister is the founder of the Venus Group, a social and support network for large women, and is also known as Ms. DeMeanor, founder of Big Burlesque/Ms. DeMeanor's Fat-Bottom Revue, a performance group of fat artist/activists. She has conducted size acceptance workshops and/or performances nationwide, including the True Spirit Conference in Washington, D.C., the National Women's Music Festival (IN), the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Eastern Michigan University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the Abundia Retreat (IL), the NOLOSE Conference (NJ), and Burning Man (NV).
Diane di Prima is a poet, teacher, psychic, playwright, healer, magician, anarchist, student of alchemy and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the mother of five, grandmother of three and a great-grandmother. An new edition of her Revolutionary Letters with twenty-three additional poems is being published by Last Gasp Press this Spring, and Penguin is publishing Opening to the Poem (essays and exercises for beginning poets) next year. Her recent books include an autobiography, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, and her epic poem Loba: Books I and II (both from Penguin), and two chapbooks: Towers Down and The Ones I Used to Laugh With. She lives in San Francisco where she teaches privately.
Annie Sprinkle Ph.D. is the prostitute/porn star turned performance artist/sexologist. She has passionately researched and explored sexuality in all of its glorious and inglorious forms for thirty years, and has shared her findings all along the way through producing and starring in her own unique brand of sex films, photographic work, teaching workshops, and college lectures. She is also an internationally acclaimed performance artist who tours one woman shows about her life in sex. Annie has championed sex worker rights and health care. She was one of the pivotal players in the 80s "sex positive feminist movement". Her autobiography, Post Porn Modernist (Cleis Press) is a cult classic and her last book, Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance, won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award (2002). In 2002 she received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality. Shes a committed "metamorphosexual" and is based out of San Francisco.
Inga Muscio is the author of the brilliant womanifesto Cunt: a declaration of independence. She is currently working on a second book, and uses the rest of her not-exactly-plentiful spare time to write other stuff, read it in public, and continue to expand on her work in Cunt by doing workshops and the like.
Ani DiFranco is a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist perpetually on the move. From the raw "folk punk" of her early albums through the jazz/funk grooves she created during her years touring with a five-piece band to the twists and turns of her current work as a solo artist, Ani's restless creativity continually leads her and her listeners into ever more exciting territory.
Born in Buffalo, New York, DiFranco was already singing and playing guitar in public before she was old enough to drive. As a teenager, the poems she'd been writing in "long skinny columns" soon evolved into lyrics, and music became a way for the teenager to talk about the things that mattered most to her: the power dynamics of romantic entanglements, the fragmentation of her family, the choices she watched her friends making, and the state of life in her hometown and her country.
Femina Potens is a grassroots DIY Non-Profit Art Gallery and Performance space dedicated to promoting and educating women and transfolk in the arts. Femina Potens consists of four major aspects: events,gallery,classes/workshops/community meetings, and the alternative library.
Femina Potens events include experimental performances,art openings,women-made porn night, spoken word,rock shows,theater productions and more. The purpose of our events is to both help the artists gain exposure and give well known gender queer and female talent a venue to give back to their community and create a sense of empowerment in ladies and queer youth. All of our events are all ages and sliding scale to make events as accessible as possible. Femina Potens has had the pleasure of presenting such acts as Sini Anderson,Boyskout, The Reputation,Tribe 8 members,Carol Queen,Blevin Blectum and Michelle Tea.
Femina Potens Auction,Raffle, and Celebration
Celebrity & Star F*#!ers Gala
September 18th @ 7pm
465 S.Van Ness
SF,CA 94103
$5 - $10
featuring performances by Carol Queen,Michelle Tea, Tami Hart,Urban Hermitt, & The Fat Bottom Revue/ Big Bottom Burlesque Dancers, Autographed auction items by such artists as
Ani DiFranco
Carol Queen
Annie Sprinkle
Inga Muscio
Diane Diprima
Kissing booth with yummy smooches from past and present Lusty Ladies, and win an autographed copy of the April/May 2004 - On Our Backs Magazine.
Michelle Tea is the author of three memoirs, one poetry colelction, two edited anthologies and the brand new graphic novel Rent Girl. She writes for publications such as The Believer and the SF Bay Guardian, and hosts the monthly literature & cookies Radar Reading Series at the San
Francisco Public Library. She is currently at work on a screenplay and a work of utter fiction.
andre/urban hermitt
san francisco based hip hop performer and writer,
the urban hermitt strives to represent the broke
ass queers into taking back our lives whether it
be shopping at the food co-op or making homemade
sex toys. this summer, he'll be releasing a 4
track hip hop concept album about "my little
pony" "unicorns" and "girls named jennifer,
stacy, amy." last year, his novel "the flow
chronicles" was published on Microcosm, which is
a story about the modern day hippie nitemare. the
urban hermitt has been self publishing his own
zine for over 6 years, focusing on new age
facists, wanna be white boys rastas, phony
gangstas, and broken hearts. he has been featured
in the zine yearbook, the san francisco
chronicle, the tablet, the portland mercury, and
was febuary's "boyfriend of the month" in
girlfriends magazine. he also teaches zine
making, creative writing, and hip hop workshops.
interested?
Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology. First as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, where she helped found one of the first gay youth groups in the United States, and later in the emerging international bisexual community, as a sex worker and a practitioner of alternative sexualities, she typically teaches and writes from her own experience and that of her communities even as she references academic thought on these subjects.
Tami Hart is putting our faith back in the youth of America. If one lady can have two great albums under her belt, along with being in another fabulous band, Sextional, all before she even comes close to reaching her mid-20s, folks need to stand up and take notice. Not for the faint of heart, Tami Harts bittersweet melodies are redefining solo songwriting as we know it. Go to www.mrlady.com for more on this fabulous lady.
Heather MacAllister is the founder of the Venus Group, a social and support network for large women, and is also known as Ms. DeMeanor, founder of Big Burlesque/Ms. DeMeanor's Fat-Bottom Revue, a performance group of fat artist/activists. She has conducted size acceptance workshops and/or performances nationwide, including the True Spirit Conference in Washington, D.C., the National Women's Music Festival (IN), the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Eastern Michigan University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the Abundia Retreat (IL), the NOLOSE Conference (NJ), and Burning Man (NV).
Diane di Prima is a poet, teacher, psychic, playwright, healer, magician, anarchist, student of alchemy and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the mother of five, grandmother of three and a great-grandmother. An new edition of her Revolutionary Letters with twenty-three additional poems is being published by Last Gasp Press this Spring, and Penguin is publishing Opening to the Poem (essays and exercises for beginning poets) next year. Her recent books include an autobiography, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, and her epic poem Loba: Books I and II (both from Penguin), and two chapbooks: Towers Down and The Ones I Used to Laugh With. She lives in San Francisco where she teaches privately.
Annie Sprinkle Ph.D. is the prostitute/porn star turned performance artist/sexologist. She has passionately researched and explored sexuality in all of its glorious and inglorious forms for thirty years, and has shared her findings all along the way through producing and starring in her own unique brand of sex films, photographic work, teaching workshops, and college lectures. She is also an internationally acclaimed performance artist who tours one woman shows about her life in sex. Annie has championed sex worker rights and health care. She was one of the pivotal players in the 80s "sex positive feminist movement". Her autobiography, Post Porn Modernist (Cleis Press) is a cult classic and her last book, Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance, won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award (2002). In 2002 she received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality. Shes a committed "metamorphosexual" and is based out of San Francisco.
Inga Muscio is the author of the brilliant womanifesto Cunt: a declaration of independence. She is currently working on a second book, and uses the rest of her not-exactly-plentiful spare time to write other stuff, read it in public, and continue to expand on her work in Cunt by doing workshops and the like.
Ani DiFranco is a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist perpetually on the move. From the raw "folk punk" of her early albums through the jazz/funk grooves she created during her years touring with a five-piece band to the twists and turns of her current work as a solo artist, Ani's restless creativity continually leads her and her listeners into ever more exciting territory.
Born in Buffalo, New York, DiFranco was already singing and playing guitar in public before she was old enough to drive. As a teenager, the poems she'd been writing in "long skinny columns" soon evolved into lyrics, and music became a way for the teenager to talk about the things that mattered most to her: the power dynamics of romantic entanglements, the fragmentation of her family, the choices she watched her friends making, and the state of life in her hometown and her country.
Femina Potens is a grassroots DIY Non-Profit Art Gallery and Performance space dedicated to promoting and educating women and transfolk in the arts. Femina Potens consists of four major aspects: events,gallery,classes/workshops/community meetings, and the alternative library.
Femina Potens events include experimental performances,art openings,women-made porn night, spoken word,rock shows,theater productions and more. The purpose of our events is to both help the artists gain exposure and give well known gender queer and female talent a venue to give back to their community and create a sense of empowerment in ladies and queer youth. All of our events are all ages and sliding scale to make events as accessible as possible. Femina Potens has had the pleasure of presenting such acts as Sini Anderson,Boyskout, The Reputation,Tribe 8 members,Carol Queen,Blevin Blectum and Michelle Tea.
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gooddriver:
Wish I couls be there. 
monica:
i'm sending out your birthday present for you tomorrow. i ♥ you!