Following their widely successful and raucous Long Beach appearance last year, performance art collective Sister Spit will once again spew its saliva over the LBC thanks to The Center and its QSpeak series. In addition, the Long Beach Post will proudly stream the performance live.
Initially started in San Francisco in 1994 as an all-girl, queer feminist group, the group of spoken word-ists, poets, singers, and thespians lamented and mocked and praised the working class life and the ideals it espouses. After a disbanding in 2006, co-founder Michelle Tea—who MC’ed last year’s Long Beach event—reconvened the “next generation” of Sister Spit, eventually ridding the group of its female-only clause, espousing the many changes within sexuality and gender identity.
Their postmodern approach to exploring identity—via music, language, film, song, even a doll who is always sad because it lacks a labia—instills contemplation, discomfort, and engagement. And, seamlessly it seems, it’s all done on a level that showcases a seasoned comfort within their performers’ abnormal approaches to the most common aspects of life: sex, love, relationships, rejection, fantasy.
In addition to Tea, a Lambda Literary Award winner in her own right, fellow awardee Ali Liebegott will also perform. Joining these two will be New York-based author and illustrator Cristy C. Road; Australian’s self-described “felt-tip super-heroine” TextaQueen; novelist Daniel LeVesque; SF artist and designer DaveEnd; and exclusively for Long Beach, local authors Myriam Gurba and Griselda Suarez.
This year’s inaugural QSpeak event featuring Sister Spit will occur on April 12 at MADHaus, located at 624 Pacific Avenue. The event is free and subject matter is intended for a mature audience only.
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