Run, don’t walk, to check out my friend KS Stevens’ play, Butch Mamas! It’s being performed in New York’s Bowery district — and P.S. there’s an amazing chocolatier right down the street from the theatre, if you want a little pre-show cocoa. I highly recommend both.
Butch Mamas is a comedy about, well, butch mamas. […]

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CALL FOR ACTORS!
“Translations” Queer People of Color Production
Debuts at National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco in June!
AUDITIONS: Friday 5/1/ 2009, 6PM – 9PM
To schedule, for address/directions to the audition, or for more information, contact Nico Dacumos at nicodacumos@gmail.com.
THE STORY:
Friends are re-united through their family histories, discovering decades-long love affairs born during student protests in […]

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I’m excited and delighted to announce a new book publication, just out this month. I have an essay in Visible: A Femmethology, an anthology of writing about, you guessed it, femmes! My friend Sand Chang and I teamed up to co-author the piece, titled “There and Back Again”. It was a “sequel” of sorts to […]

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My friend Robin Mills is at it again, with a very cool sex education mission. Robin and I got our master’s degrees in sexuality studies together, and now she is focusing her efforts on reaching out to young people of color, to teach them about safer sex and sexual health. Here she is being interviewed […]

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If you are or know any Haitian-Americans, Haitians, or people concerned about the lives of the people of Haiti, and you have any financial resources, please consider contributing to this amazing organization, the Matènwa Community Learning Center. I recently met the Executive Director of the organization, Christine Low, and she’s doing incredible things. Please help […]

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I’m pretty excited to announce some recent publications of mine! I have an essay in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, which I co-authored with my friend Nzinga. Check out the Autumn 2008 issue for that piece. We wrote about our experiences as African American Jews, in an essay titled “Second Glances.” It’s published by Indiana […]

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(I didn’t get a chance to comment on the election in last week’s blog post — I had the post pre-loaded and ready to go, because of some school work that I knew would be capturing my attention last Sunday. But, here goes…)
We won! (This is me, coming out as a Democrat.) We won! And […]

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I had a fun time the other day doing an interview for WGDR Radio in Vermont, on a program called Woman Stirred Radio. Thanks to Merry, my excellent host and interviewer! We got to talk for about half an hour, covering everything from the difference between nonprofits and for-profits, to bisexual health and well-being, along […]

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My favorite sex-artist duo, Twincest, were at it again this week, this time with a live performance at the Femina Potens art gallery on Thursday night. The performance involved them drawing and then drinking shots of each others’ blood, bookended by some very sweet kissing and touching. And the cherry on top was that the […]

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