BRING US TO YOUR TOWN!!!!!!!!! BRING US TO YOUR SCHOOL!!!!!!!! NOW BOOKING!!!!!!! Sister Spit: The Next Generation is hitting the road again, with a whole new all-girl lineup of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, slam poets and fancy scribblers. Inspired by the legendary Sister Spit Ramblin' Roadshow of the 90s, Sister Spit: The Next Generation is hauling a vanload of killer underground female talent across the USA and into your town. The latest gang hits the road in October 2007, a decade after the first Spit van set sail, carrying on the tradition of rowdy, raucous literary adventure. As they journey across the USA, they're joined by a rag tag bunch of special guests - old Spit travelers of yore, and contributors to the brand new feminist fashion anthology, It's So You. Come and meet your new favorite performers!
WHO'S IN THE VAN?
WHO'S IN THE VAN Literary party thrower MICHELLE TEA, co-founder of Sister Spit, author/editor ten books, most recently the fresh anthology It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style. Michelle will MC the show, confess her fashion faux pas and read from the new edition of her debut memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America. Performance poet MELIZA BANALES, rapid-fire motormouth slam artist and author of the poetry collection Say It With Your Whole Mouth; star of short films and lover of Bukowski, seen in the anthology Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class and Baby, Remember My Name, Meliza will slay you with tales of hard luck, hot sex and 80s flashbacks. All the way from Australia, TEXTA QUEEN, who uses magic markers and magical skills to create giant, colorful portraits of half-naked ladies of various shapes, sizes and counter-cultural ornamentation. Texta has shown her work in galleries around the world, and will wow you with her spectacular slide show / storytelling extravaganza! Zinester DEXTER FLOWERS, creator of the 'zine maybe it was something you ate, and seen in the anthologies It's So You and Baby, Remember My Name. Dexter will perform her darkly funny and big-hearted stories about both growing up in group homes and on food stamps with her feminist witch single mom. Bon vivant CHELSEA STARR, author of the chapbooks Long Walks on the Beach with Chelsea Starr and Candlelit Dinners with Chelsea Starr; designer of Holly Hobbie-esque fashions, DJ for the San Francisco dance party Hot Pants and seen in the anthologies It's So You and Baby, Remember My Name. Chelsea will dazzle with tales of lezzie dating gone bad, feminine grooming rituals and the rewards and pitfalls of fashion risk-taking. 90s Spit road rager TARA JEPSEN, novelist, filmmaker, performance artist, hostess of San Francisco's long-running open mic event, K'vetch, and seen in the anthologies It's So You and Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache. Author of the chapbook Midnight Journey to the White Light Kegger, Tara will stun the crowd with excerpts from her novel-in-progress, Like A Dog, and impress you with how she took her boobs into her own hands. Working-class hero KAT MARIE YOAS, spoken word artist, storyteller, video artist and improv daredevil; author of the chapbook perfect endings: fresh stories and rotten characters; and seen in the anthologies It's So You and We Don't Need another wave. Kat will thrill with her varying personas, such as the sweetly murderous housewife, and teach you how to jump classes with the help of a straightening iron.
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