Featuring kathleen delaney, Amber Dawn, Jennifer Cross, Meliza Banales, & Celestina Pearl
Queer Hard-Core Fierce & Potent Femme Porn, Erotica, BDSM, writers, poets, divas, coming to see YOU in March & April 2008!!!!
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Amber Dawn (a.k.a. Trala La) is a grass-roots darling, writer, and performance artist. Her first book, "With A Rough Tongue" - an anthology of femme-written porn, was nominated for an Independent Publishers Award. Her genderfuck docu-porn, "Girl on Girl," screened in eight countries and has been added to the curriculum at Concordia University. She is a sex-worker turned sexual health educator. Currently, she's working on her second book – a magic realism novel.
kathleen delaney is a High Femme who performs Queer Hard-Core Porn Spoken Word, full-time slave, definite DIVA, whose provocative performances ignite, shock, challenge, and eroticize Butch/Femme, Queer, and BDSM dynamics! kathleen has been performing her special brand of Queer Southern Kink & Porn for several years in the Atlanta area. She has toured both coasts, sharing the stage with such acts as Margaret Cho, Shar Rednour, Amber Dawn, Athens Boys Choir, Michelle Tea, Ian Harvie, Meliza Banales, Amy Ray, Scott Turner Schofield, Bitch, and S. Bear Bergman. kathleen has graced the stages of Margaret Cho's Sensuous Woman, Cliterati, Homo-A-Gogo, Mother Tongue, Down 'n Dirty, K'vetsh, Ladyfest South, and was recently a key organizer for Atlanta's Mondohomo Dirty South 2007. kathleen's chapbook "Fierce" was published in 2005, and is a steamy collection of her most Erotic work. Her first CD, "Stiletto," is slated for release September 2007!!! www.myspace.com/stilettospokenword
Meliza Bañales is originally from Los Angeles. The youngest of four children in a working-poor, Mestizo family, Bañales left Los Angles in 1996 and was the first to attend college in her family. She published her first poems when she was seventeen in The Lesbian News. She went on to become the first Latina to ever win a Poetry Slam Championship on the west coast in 2002(Oakland), the 2002 winner of the People Before Profits Poetry Prize, and published her first book, Say It With Your Whole Mouth, at the age of twenty-five. Meliza Bañales is the author of Girl With the Glass Throat, Scratching a Surface, and Say It With Your Whole Mouth (nominated for a Poetry Center Book Award in 2004). Her work has been featured in the anthologies Revolutionary Voices (ed., by Ami Sonny) and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing-Up Working-Class (ed., by Michelle Tea), both of which were LAMBDA nominees, as well as in Transfer, Lodestar Quarterly, and Laundry Pen. She was the 2002 Oakland Grand Slam Champ and the first Latina on the west coast to win a poetry slam championship and was the 2002 winner of the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. She has fiction in the upcoming anthology Baby, Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing (ed., by Michelle Tea), four entries in the first ever Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, a short film, Do the Math, with Mary Guzmán in Frameline 2006 (which was also the winner of a 2006 Frameline Completion Grant), and a second book of poems, 51 Poems About Nothing At All, out in June from Monkey Press. She writes reviews and short articles highlighting women of color for Girlfriends and On Our Backs magazines and splits her time between Savannah, GA and the Bay Area.
Celestina Pearl was born and raised in the City of Angels, and moved to San Francisco from Eugene, Oregon in January 2000. She's a 33 year old Chicana Femme Dyke, performance and visual artist, poet, writer and bruja. She's performed sola at many venues up and down the West Coast. She founded and performed with the Fierce Pussy Posse Cabaret Theatre Company from 1997-2000, in Eugene, Oregon. In San Francisco, she performed in Liquid Fire 2000, 2001 & 2004, in several performances of "Wet", an erotic cabaret by Lesbians of Color from 2000-2004, in many shows at Lunasea Women's Theater from 2000-2003, with Debauchery, a queer performance group from 2001-2003, and in "Please Don't Stop" and "Voluptuous Vixens", two movies celebrating the erotic lives of Lesbians of Color. She directed and starred in "Dangerous Curves: The Femme Show" and painted her first large scale public mural at Lunasea Women's Theater in 2003. In 2006 she graduated from City College of San Francisco's Nursing Program and participated in and performed for the the San Fransicso Femme Conference. Her movie, "Las Mañanitas" (The Little Tomorrows) about her relationship as a queer Chicana Femme Dyke with her Drag Queen Nana showed at the Queer Women of Color Film Festival and Frameline LGBTQ Int'l Film Festival in June of 2007. She is currently working on an autobiographical movie about a Queer Femme Dyke and her FTM wife who is transitioning while they are also trying to become pregnant.
Jen Cross is a femme dyke incest survivor and smut writer. Her erotica has appeared in a plethora of anthologies, including, most recently, Nobody Passes, Best Women's Erotica 2007, Naughty Spanking Stories A-Z 2, as well as on CleanSheets.com. Based in the Bay Area, she's featured at such lascivious events as Sizzle, Writers With Drinks, the National Queer Arts Festival, Queer Open Mic. She participated in the smutty part of last year's LitQuake LitCrawl, pouring out porn for a capacity crowd at GoodVibes. She's is a co-collaborator in the dyke erotica collective Dirty Ink, and, because she cannot get enough dirty words, leads erotic writing workshops and co-facilitates (with Carol Queen) a monthly Erotic Reading Circle at the Center for Sex and Culture. Jen writes to release, transform, and create space for as much unspoken erotica as possible, and is a firm believer in the transformative power of smut.