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Bird La Bird

Hardcore Femme

About Me

Wanted: Ganders, Roosters and Cocks for courtship rituals.
Perches for warbling and showing off plumage.
Fellow birds for looking in the mirror and twittering.

Message moi.

Performer

High heel aficionado

Hardcore

Femmeinist

Tacky clip art hurts my eyes. Please don't paste any on me page. It messes me nest up.

My Interests


  • geezers
  • negative spaces
  • semiology
  • language
  • letterforms
  • pretend families
  • powerful connections that bring us together
  • unities
  • empathy
  • embracing all forms of beauty:
    down with size zero, racism, ageism
  • femininity as carnival not as economy
  • my hair
  • spectacles
  • mirrors
  • shortsightness, vision impairments
  • the international struggle of the proletariat
  • the butch femme dance (Ravel's Bolero)
  • typography
  • graphic design
  • web accessibility
  • disability politics
  • fashion
  • kunst
  • humour
  • gossip
  • banter
  • the craic
  • catholicism
  • London (sometimes, not right now)
  • the North of Ireland
  • stately 'omes
  • posh gay tents
  • posh food (biscuits and chocolate)
  • trinkets
  • charms
  • charming bone china
  • guinea pigs, whippets (sadly not together)
  • dogs, human dogs, guide dogs
  • old ladies (Nan R.I.P.)
  • roast potatoes
  • gravy in abundance
  • champagne in abundance
  • love in abundance
  • oh and Geezers...
  • I'd like to meet:

    Dashing dandyboys, strutting roosters, hunter gatherers, manful, sartorial, independent, caring and adventurous.

    Mannish lesbians, women who "look like men", Inverts, Bulldaggers, cross dressers, passers, butches, diesel dykes, trans guys, bionic men - yum!

    Understand, the kinda lezzer I am is one with a twist. See, I like boys who used to be goats or girls if you fancy. There isn't really a word for me cos if said boy hasn't gone through the goat phase, I'm not interested. Oh and boy doesn't really work either cos I like silverbacks. Men who used to be goats! That's the one!

    Once upon a time I was photographing me handsome neighbour Aston Martin when we across this fine beastie. Nice horns, lovely beard.

    Lucky for the goat s/he was behind a fence or I'd have been whispering sweet nothings in his fluffy goatie ears.

    Politically aware with a strong sense of justice and a nasty streak. It's the glint in the eye, the swagger, the attitude and the cufflinks that count.

    "This is the last night of the fair,
    And the grease in the hair,
    Of a speedway operator,
    Is all a tremulous heart requires"

    The "all about me" features me arty farty as well as my sleazy side cos ultimately I'm seeking a creative, thinking geezer who would appreciate both. I'm looking for someone who inspires and challenges me. I'm a curious pussycat and I love questioning.

    Well, there are a few other things in life apart from geezers so am also up for networking with other creative spirits.

    Music:

    Siouxsie, Vitalic, PIL, The Hacker, Fad Gadget, Marc Almond, The Smiths, Nancy and Lee, Grace Jones, Dolly, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Hard, dark, driving, phat, pulsating electro

    Movies:

    Morvern Caller, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Whatever happened to Baby Jane?, City of God, 8 Women, Nightporter, Liquid Sky, Jubilee, Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White, Rasberry Reich, Breakfast on Pluto, Paris is Burning, Enough Man, Letter to Brezhnev, 24hr prty ppl, Old Hammer horrors, Nosferatu, anything with Bela Lugosi, any Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, anything with a "red triangle", anything with Divine...

    Television:

    Dog Borstal (bad doggy!)

    Books:

    Nights at the Circus, Wise Children, All Angela Carter, Hotel World, Geek Love, SCUM, Picture of Dorian Gray, Cyborg Manifesto, Lesbians are so chic, The Trumpet, The Adoption Papers, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Acker, Sacred Country, Brick Lane, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, Total Immersion: The Art of Fishlike Swimming, The Springboard in the Pond, Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable, Mapping Desire, The Likes of us, The Burden of Representation, Ways of Seeing, and feminist art criticism / history, critical weary.

    Desert Island essays include:

    Will the Body Please Stand Up? By Digital Diva Sandy Stone. Software developers leave traces of their bodies in the software they create...

    Heroes:

    Ditto - Beth Ditto, Kate Bornstein, Tracy Emin, John Lydon, Frida Kahlo, Valerie Solanos, Guerilla Girls, Angela Davis, Angela Carter, Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, Rosa Luxemburg, Leonora Carrington, Claude Cahun. (Whatever happened to the) Lesbian Avengers?, Julie Burchill, Sinead O'Connor, Jackie Kay, St Jude, David Campbell of Common Culture - for rescuing me and setting my brain afire, "Divine" David Hoyle - for "Being Gay is a waste of time" you made me laugh and cry thankyou forever...

    My Blog

    The speech a million women rise organisers didn’t want you to hear

    I'm writing this with a heavy heart.On Saturday there was all in all a fantastic march to protest against  violence against women.I have to summarise but basically it appeared that the organisers...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:01:00 PST

    Whats your problem with tomboys boyfriend?

    I watched yet another of those reality self improvement shows last night.I'm really, really tired off watching endless experts trashing butches and telling us how "this year's key look is femininity",...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:59:00 PST

    Out with the old and in with the new

    I thought I'd blog on the last day of the Gregorian calendar with a blog to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.The lovely Cyan has drawn me: check it out - wow Cyan thankyou so much.I really l...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:04:00 PST

    world premiere beauty parlour v2.0

    ok folks this might the worlds first ever blogo from the best beauty parlour on the roman road. Because Birds are not born. We are in cubated in beauty salons hatched in hairdressers. There...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:45:00 PST

    hrh kate bornstein

    i just had dinner wiv kate bornrstein n serge.Kate agreed bout th sunshine machine. I'm writing this on the bus. FantasticI've decided that when I blog from the sunshine machine I'm not going to edit...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:00:00 PST

    That Golden compass is so white I got blinded. And a word on orphans

    Okay so me and me neighbour Aston wanted a quiet night last night. So I suggested to go and see Golden Compass. Ok so I have no fashion really. I read all the books, thought they went down hill from t...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:23:00 PST

    I've fallen in love with a sunshine machine

    "Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, m...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:45:00 PST

    the new smoke

     I just had to share this.The prison ship has few advantages. Gloomy, empty 60s deco corridors that are very Stanley Kubrick esque.And stunning views of the old smoke.Luckily it's not a bomb, fin...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:59:00 PST

    Hot Gossip

    I got me claws on a Gossip ticket last night. Fucking fantastic, many thanks happy camper C.Beth Ditto is nothing short of legendary.The woman is a BELTER full stop.Last night's shortish but oh so ver...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:22:00 PST

    Mooncup madness (update: xxMancup branding ideas)

    After the last days pondering on leaky bodies I've made the leap and got meself a mooncup. (http://www.mooncup.co.uk).I'm stupidly excited.I'm really hoping me threep'nny takes to it cos it's out wit...
    Posted by Bird La Bird on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:31:00 PST