2010 Performance!
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This year's conference is bringing together the best of our E. Coast roots with the hottest West Coast fat-poz performers. Our Saturday night Queer Cabaret line-up promises to delight your sensibilities and inspire your ass (just in time to take it to the dance floor, with DJ'ing by Olga T!), and what Sat. night doesn't take care of, the Sunday morning Queer Memoir will deliver.
The flabulousness continues on past the end of NOLOSE into Sunday night, because you will not want to miss Flabulous 2: Fatter than Ever! at the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco Sunday, June 6 at 7pm!
Queer Cabaret! An evening of dynamic cabaret performances!
Curated and hosted by the unstoppable writer, performer, and hostess Bevin Branlandingham. |
 Photo credit: Shameless Photography Bevin Branlandingham
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 Photo credit: Alysia Angel Butch Tap ButchTap Performers: Kentucky Fried Woman, Jake Danger, Billy "the Poof" Elliot, Tyrone Peaches, Ricky T. Smiles & Lance Armstar. |
 Miz Ginger Snapz is Seattle's Premier Queer Black Burlesque Starlet. With her sass, class, and a whole lotta ass, Ginger has been tantalizing audiences up and down the west coast for the past five years. Ginger is dedicated to creating "intentional" art and promoting a diversity of sexualities, races, and bodies on stage. In her spare time Ginger is a doctorial candidate at the University of Washington where she teaches a course on Burlesque and Feminism highlighting histories which have been obscured by the dominant narrative of burlesque. |
 Miasia is a formally trained, professional Middle Eastern Belly Dancer who has performed all over the US from DC to SF, as well as Canada, Turkey and Egypt. Miasia's goal as a teacher and performer is to continue opening the doorway of dance to include all bodies, sizes and abilities. |
 photo credit: Marc Escabosa nomy lamm & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD This performance will include a special tribute to singer/songwriter Silvia Kohan, a member of the fat queer community who died in 2003. |
 photo credit: Jae Sevelius These chunky hunks are ready to punch your clocks and work it overtime with flabulously sexy king-sized faggotry. They made their debut three years ago at Rally the Troupes and are back! Drawn together by their fetish for accessories, lust for lunch breaks, and urge to undulate they dare to live large and dream big. Featuring Drew Montana, Jake Danger, Beary Craves, Delicio Del Toro, Lyric Styles & Gabe Oi. CHUBB, because size . . . does matter! [top row left to right: Jake Danger, Delicio Del Toro, Drew Montana. Front row left to right: Beary Craves, Lyric Styles, & Gabe Oi] |
For the past 7 years, Veronica Jones has been gracing stages across the Southeast as queer burlesque starlet Ms. Vagina Jenkins. An ecdysiast exemplar, Vagina Jenkins style is reminiscent of classic glitz and glamour. Ms. Jenkins act defies audience expectations, wows them and leaves them wanting more. The Southern Voice magazine calls her “…one of the top stars in Atlanta’s queer burlesque scene." Ms. Jenkins got her start at the 2003 Michigan Women’s Music Festival. And has since graced many stages, including but not limited to; South By Burlesque (Austin, TX), Miss Exotic World (Las Vegas, NV),The New York Burlesque Festival ’08, The Femme Conference ’08 (Chicago, IL), Moxie: A Queer Cabaret of Caliber (Atlanta, GA), The Southern Comfort Conference ’06 and ’07 (Atlanta, GA), Big Mamma’s House of Burlesque (Charlotte, NC) , Atlanta PRIDE ’08 and Toronto Pride ‘09. Ms. Jenkins hopes to take her show on the road for spring ’10. Be sure to check www.VaginaJenkins.com for dates in your town! |
 Jezebel Delilah X is a righteous faerie Queen from the ancient dynasty of Kush. Descending from a long line of Black activist freedom warriors, she was born by erotic conception. For pleasure, she snorts poetry dust off the quivering bellies and delicate inner thighs of virgin boi rebel-leaders, dom-fucks dying super deities for justice and equity, and dispenses life pollen in the form of literature, literacy, and advocacy to the oppressed and the marginalized. |
 Olga Texidor aka DJ Olga T, has the premiere female DJ in the Northern California women's community for over a decade. Olga's passionate energy and flawless transitions always generate a happy and packed dance floor. Her signature style of seamlessly mixing vocal, Gospel, Latin, and Deep House music while infusing Hip Hop, R&B, Old School Classics, and Dancehall/Reggae into her sets with unparalled creativity and intensity brought a new element to the women's club scene. Her tremendous passion for music and DJing is transferred through the turntables and connects her with the audience in a very unique and intimate way. One of the few DJs in the Bay Area to play multiple music formats with such intense precision and crowd satisfaction sets her apart from the rest. Always in constant connection with her crowd, Olga T observes everything going on both in the DJ booth and on the dance floor. Every time Olga T is on the decks, she is going to create an amazing musical experience for her audience. Currently, Olga T is the co-founder and musical director of Movement Productions and their events, creator of GOOD TIMES (Oakland), and resident DJ at MANGO (SF), WETbar (Oakland), TEASE (SF), Afterglow (San Jose) and co-producer of BLISS (Palm Springs). In addition, Olga's producing her own Hip Hop and House re-mixes and continues to put out limited copies of her numerous CD compilations. These CDs are guaranteed to rock your party and they go fast so don't sleep on these... |
Queer Memoir: In/Visible
Curated and hosted by Kelli Dunham and Genne Murphy, this salon will feature a variety of awesome fatties sharing their fat and queer stories. |
 Photo credit: Kina Williams Kelli Dunham (www.kellidunham.com) is an ex-nun, an award-winning stand up comic and the author of four books, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School (FA Davis, 2004), How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse (FA Davis, 2005) and The Boy’s Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU (Applesauce Press, 2007) and the Girl’s Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU (Applesauce Press, 2008) She is a contributor to numerous humorous anthologies including Love’s Funny That Way (Sterling Press, 2006), Squeaky Clean Comedy (Andrew McNeil Press, 2005), She’s So Funny (Andrew McNeil Press, 2004), Dangerous Families (Haworth Press, 2004), and Life’s a Stitch (Random House, 2002). Back in the day Kelli was a long time writer for Philadelphia’s Au Courant, and won two Vice Versa Awards for her humor column “Trippin’ Out” She has appeared on Penn & Teller’s Bullshit and the Discovery Channel. |
 Genne Murphy is a Philadelphia native, playwright, and arts educator. She is the co-founder, along with Kelli Dunham, of Queer Memoir, a NYC based salon for new work inspired by a monthly theme (QueerMemoir.com). She’s passionate about the intersection of the arts, social change, and community-building. Genne works for a Philadelphia-based arts education non-profit, and is involved with initiatives to expand new play development in her hometown. |
 Jeanette Beal is an unrepentantly fat, blind, first-generation American, poor, hyper-educated, queer cyborg and not unpleased about it. Ze has been working in the field of disability rights and assistive technologies for years and holds a Masters in Education in Assistive Technology at Simmons College. Believing that bootstraps are fictitious, Jeanette works with people with disabilities to increase independence and self-advocacy skills and believes that art is a medium for social change. Ze contributes to and co-edits Breath and Shadow, an online disability publication and has appeared on fatshionista.com and wordgathering.com. Ze also published Restricted Zine: voices on sexuality and disability in 2005 and currently runs dis/positional, a blog focusing on disableism and access challenges for people with disabilities in both popular and dominant culture. |
 Stacy Bias is the co-owner of the wind-powered web host Taproot Green Web Hosting in Portland, Oregon and the founder of DykeTees.com, which specializes in smartly designed LGBT t-shirts in sizes to 32/34. This entrepreneur and activist was also the brains behind TechnoDyke.com, which she founded in 2000 and was one of the most popular lesbian websites, with over 50,000 visitors a month until it closed in 2008. Bias helped create a number of size-positive activities in Portland such as ChunkyDunk swim parties, FatGirl Frock Swaps and was the founder of the FatGirl Speaks conference. She says, "It is my hope that I can help eradicate a little bit of shame from the lives of women by demystifying marketing tactics, encouraging compassion of self and others, facilitating heartfelt dialogue and sharing my own process of fighting through all the compare and contrast to simply love myself as I am." |
Cholla is a big fat happy brilliant tattooed pervert mestiza dyke witch with a bad leg and a good heart. She is a professor at a small Catholic college in the Bay Area, where she lives with her adopted family in a big old house. In her spare time she makes trouble and demi-glace. Although most of her writing is scientific these days, she is a storyteller at heart. You can read her work in Size Queen and Witch Eye. |
 Charlotte Cooper is a motherfucker who blogs about fat activism at Obesity Timebomb (www.obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com) and about sex at Kink (www.kinkzine.blogspot.com). Her writing is all over the place. Talk to her if you want to know more. |
 Photo credit: Kina Williams Sossity Chiricuzio is a working class/fat/poly femme who has had the distinct pleasure of hosting & producing Dirty Queer - a monthly X-rated open mic and fundraiser in Portland, OR - for over 3 years now. Her CD, "Hand to Mouth" will be available in fall of 2010, to be followed by "Stir the Juice," a chapbook of erotic poetry spanning two decades of queer passion and adventure. Check out her site, dirtyqueer.com. |
 Photo credit: www.nakedeyephotography.com Gina de Vries is a queer femme Paisan pervert, and a writer, performer, and activist with a long history doing political organizing in and with queer, trans, and sex worker communities. Gina's writing has appeared dozens of places, from the academic to the pornographic - recent publications include Issue #4 of Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet, Girl Crush, and The Revolution Starts at Home. Shows she's curated include "Ecstasies & Elegies" (for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers), "Rebel Girl: a riot grrrl nostalgia show," and "Girl Talk: a trans & cis woman dialogue" (with Julia Serano). Gina has performed, taught, and lectured everywhere from chapels to leatherbar backrooms, and recent university appearances include Reed College, Yale University, and Harvard University. She is the founder and facilitator of Sex Workers' Writing Workshop, a writing class for current and former sex workers at San Francisco's Center for Sex & Culture (where she also serves on the Advisory Board). Gina is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction Writing at San Francisco State University, where she is working on a novel and a book of short stories. She likes glitter, the color fuchsia, leopard print, and political discussion as foreplay. Find out more at ginadevries.com. |
 Tara Shuai is a biracial hapa high femme New Yorker by way of DC and Richmond, VA. She is a lover of fatshion, social justice, blogging, and living the bon vivant life on a dime. Tara has talking and blogging about fashion, race, and identity (among other things) for over 9 years. |
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