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About Me

Butchlalis de Panochtitlan is a trio that has emerged from community based activist spaces to create visibility around politicized identities and the limitations in identity politics within a Los Angeles-centric context. They work to produce multi-dimensional language as a way that activates a new way of seeing their multi-layered, contradictory and celebratory selves in an often hostile world.
They have performed together since 2002. Their work began as sketch-based pieces focusing on recuperating queer narratives washed over by waves of gentrification, state and local terror and violence. Their work also touches on the humor and irreverence found in the everyday lives of gender minorities and outlaws living in the 20th and 21st century. Their first four shows all premiered at Highways Performance Space. They are: Teenage Papi: The Second Coming of Adolescence (2005); Teenage Papi: The Remix (2006); BdP Get U.G.L.Y (2007); and Dickwhipped! (2008)
Currently, the trio is workshopping the new full-length play titled The Barber of East L.A. thanks to a generous commission by the USC Visions and Voices humanities initiative. The Barber of East L.A. is a story about queer and punk Latinos living in Eastside neighborhoodsâ€”living as the neighborhood freaks in the threatening face of everyday annihilation. This mix of fictional characters with real events, political communities and identities that betray practice and desires about recovering memories about people and places designated as outsiders framed against a tumultuous period of the recent past, Reagan-era 1980s presents a multi-generational look at estrangement between family, community and institutions as well as multi-generational attempt at creating family, community and institutions. This project has enabled them to collaborate with acclaimed playwright, director and MacArthur Genius Fellow, Luis Alfaro and visual artist and activist, Hector Silva.
We explore identity and its consequence while mapping the city we live in on the brown female masculine bodies we walk in, as we perform ourselves, each other, imagined characters and caricatures.

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Performance and experimental theatre, film and video, theory and therapy, butch melancholia, racialized desires and masculinities, negative space, spatial metaphors, queer culture, queer hegemony, low papi couture, macho femmes, femme daddies, 70s comedy (RIP Richard Pryor), male chick flicks and boi bonding, cultural politics and activism, los angeles moments.

I'd like to meet:

homophiles, cool muthaphukkas, butches, dykes, FTM radicals, performance perverts, theatre thugs, scandalistas, homebois for hugging, trauma talkers and healers, recovering identity politicians, the indigenous chic, stoic trolls, and party starters, macho femmes and femme daddies, handsome bois, troublemakers and live artists...

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Heroes:

Patrick Califia; Peggy Shaw; Luis Alfaro; Culture Clash; Monica Palacios; Marga Gomez; Carmelita Tropicana; Rigoberta Menchu; Chavela Vargas; Nancy Valverde

My Blog

Smart Butches Exist

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Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:12:00 PST

We are in Claremont month for VEXING!

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Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:58:00 PST

MACLA hosted SoCal Butchlalis in staged reading of The Barber of East L.A.

Check out the Butchlalis' Barber of East L.A. review in the MetroActive, the Silicon Valley weekly newspaper written by Marianne Messina.Cut and paste into your browser: http://www.metroactive.co...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:11:00 PST

Butchlalis in San Francisco and San Jose (Lots of Info!)

We will be beginning our mini-tour with an evening at San Francisco's own Galeria de la Raza with a night of monologues culled from our new full length play called The Barber of East L.A. We are at Ga...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:11:00 PST

Taking BARBER on the ROAD!!!

Heeeyyyy Y'All! Butchlalis de Panochtitlan are spending some time in San Francisco & San Jose and we want to see YOU at our upcoming shows! We will be doing TWO separate events that showcase our n...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

The Barber of East L.A. + A Hector Silva Retrospective

The Barber of East L.A. + A Hector Silva RetrospectiveLos Angeles, [email protected], [email protected] for more infoFree Admission to Both Events!*********************************THE BARBER of EAS...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:30:00 PST

Hello Riverside!

University of California, Riverside EventsButchlalis' "Dickwhipped!"Wednesday, March 5, 20088:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.Location: Commons, University 302Parking InformationCategory: PerformanceEvent Photo De...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:55:00 PST

EASTSIDE STORIES with BdP, Hector Silva, Luis Alfaro!

EASTSIDE STORIES: Queer Latino/a Art and Activism East L.A.Thursday, March 6, 6:30 to 8 p.m.El Centro Chicano, Room 300, United University ChurchFree and open to all. Refreshments will be served.Join...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Butchlalis in YOUR TOWN???

Hi!A lot of pals, friends and acquaintances ask us if we the Butchlalis will ever come to their town to perform. Well we sure would like to go everywhere you are. We especially want to make it up to ...
Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:46:00 PST

Dear Bay Area: We want to see you real bad!

Posted by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:03:00 PST