Trisha is my troublemaking sister and I need her.

She’s groundbreaking and rule breaking and break dancing and heartbroken but prevailing and she manifests. She is my lesson in asking for it, in getting it. Trisha is quite simply, a bad girl; the part of us who wants to be out of control and who has all the faculties to do it and succeed at being unbounded — without causing major damage. Trisha is intentional.

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I wrote a brief history of the genesis/discovery of Trisha and if you’re really ethnolinguistically curious, there is also a Lexicography describing Her name/s and traits. I’m thinking of Trisha as I work on A Month of Sundays, a long-format collection of what will be both more sermons/masses/revivals from the Hot Pink Mass and accompanying text. Winter projects! A-choo!

• If you want to register, please do it NOW for the low cost of $75 because the price goes up to $95 on the 19th.
• If you want to get hundreds of femmes to check your organization out, why not advertise in the program? Rates start at $50 and a whole frickin page ad is only $120.
• Oh! And the conference has a blog with a daily countdown/femme reasons to attend the conference! So check it out and comment – our voices are *all* crucial!

And – because the Femme Family is hustling so many of us out to beautiful Oakland for the event, we’re throwing one more fun[d]raiser party on July 23: SPEAKEASY OF FEMME! Check back or find FemmeFamilyNYC on evil ol facebook for party details…

Feb 28, Portland, OR: The Hot Pink Mass is getting churchy at the Fez Ballroom, with Sossity Chiricuzio, Amithyst Fist, Maude Squared and more; plus the service will be led by local Deacon Billy Coyote.

March 8, NY: The Femme Family book club read Zoe Whittall‘s Bottle Rocket Hearts, and I’ll be leading the discussion.

March 9, NY: I’ll be speaking on creating a MFA in DIY at Heather Acs’s Boxcutter Salon series. A “DIY MFA” – much like the one I’ve been working on for the last year – which is a self-directed interdisciplinary arts program of your making. DIY saves you up to $60k in grad school debt, but requires incredible self-structure, discipline, and balancing booking your own life with living the magical life you’ve created.

March 11, Brooklyn: I’m teaching BDSM 101 at Hunter College’s Queer Student Union.

March 16, NY: Femme Family’s Speaking of Femme IV – I’m hostessing our quarterly[ish] series with the inimitable Bevin Brandlandingham. We still have slots for featured readers so feel free to email me to get in there!

March 20, Seattle, WA: my short video Working Girl Blues is playing at Lets Do It! A night of sex worker made media at Northwest Film Forum, that’s taking place at 8:00 pm, at  1515 12th Ave. E., Seattle.

March 23, Brooklyn: How To Build A Fire has it’s first NY performance and workshop booking at Kingsborough College.

March 25 – April 4: Heels On Wheels Roadshow! More info to come, and if you love me and want to see me perform in your town in the south/east coast, email me!

April 5, Southwestern University, TX: How To Build A Fire will be at at Southwestern!

• Silas, Heather and Leah are all really talented in different arenas so we make up a really interesting teaching team – covering theatre, writing, video, DIY booking, community healing, web and audio production…
• And because of that, each of us *performs* really differently, too. Silas’ piece on Hollywood, quistory and integrity; Heather’s highly performative work on loss; Leah’s multimedia razor word work…and the Hot Pink Jesus Trash work I’m bringing is some of my best, creating magic out of dirt and shame.

We decided to change the name to How To Build A Fire, because that really reflected what we are accomplishing with this project — by pairing our performances with “how-to” interactive workshops and/or lectures that offer practical, hands-on techniques, our participants are encouraged to deepen their critical anlayses of cultural production, and will walk away with a collection of  techniques, tools and technology necessary to create artistic work and sustainable community projects in their own communities — with the ability to build their own fires!