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THR. FEB 16




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ANAL REVAMP

performed by Lechedevirgen Trimegisto
6:30-7:10pm @ VORTEX Main

ANAL REVAMP is an artistic project that combines critical writing along with multimedia and live actions to explore the contributions of queer authors around the anal taboo and body politics with the purpose of opening the discussion around sexual dissidence from the south, in a world colonized by narratives from the north and plagued by hate crimes and discrimination against our LGBTQI+, non-binary, trans communities.



YOU MUST UNDERGO… A RADICAL...TRANSFORMATION 

performed by Andie Flores
7:30-8:15pm @ VORTEX Tent
Part joy-infested pop culture fever dream, part mental illness nap, TO GET THERE…

YOU MUST UNDERGO… A RADICAL……………………. TRANSFORMATION is a show about a clown idiot who, at the head of a year-long depression, falls asleep watching The Wizard of Oz during that scene where Dorothy falls asleep in the poppy fields. Stuck inside a twisted version of Oz, the clown must confront all the things she thinks might get her to the other side of her misery. Can she get back to herself or is it finally time to conjure a totally new clown for some great reemergence? How can you ever know? A show about being both the disoriented loser and the wizard.




Early Career Retrospective feat. Sister Spit

Michelle Tea & Sini Anderson
8:30-10:30pm @ VORTEX Main

Created by Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea, Sister Spit began as an all-girl, trans-inclusive weekly open mic in 1994 in San Francisco. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named it 'Best Place to Hear Silver-Tongued She-Devils.' It hosted writers such as Eileen Myles, Mary Gaitskil, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Bambi Lake and many, many more. In 1997, Sister Spit hit the road for the very first time, bringing two van fulls of literary artists across the US and into Canada for one solid month. Sister Spit has existed in many forms since that time, with Michelle Tea managing some tours on her own before passing it off to Julian Delgado Lopera, who passed it off to Imani Sims, who passed it off to Mason J., who passed it back to Sini and Michelle just in time for the 25th anniversary of the tour's maiden voyage. In 2022/2023 Sister Spit has hit both coasts of the US, bringing along old and new queer and feminist writers such as Beth Lisick, Kamala Puligandla, Lynnee Breedlove, Julian Delgado Lopera, Vera Blossom, Cristy C. Road, Mya Spalter and others.