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the following day was oh so enjoyable despite the angry look on my face, thats what happens when you draw in a quasi-euphoric state.
“that’s it, thats the one i want”
is that a broken finger or a finger who stretched the limits?
I have been back from the Tranny Roadshow for about a week and am still reeling from the experience, even though it was just a few days.
Kit Yan: Badass (www.goodasiandrivers.com) Lexington, Kentucky
The venues were all different and receptive in their own ways and each featured an audience distinct from one to the next. I was surprised by the turn out in Kentucky, which I considered to be overwhelmingly conservative. The audience had the most cross-generational group of trans folk I had ever seen along with a horde of straight allies.
Jamez Terry talks about his penis, Lexington, Kentucky
“They address the sort of mess our mind falls into when we’re trying to move past the binary message,” … “A lot of people here feel queasy in their stomach when they have to deal with that. And the Tranny Roadshow slaps you upside the head with it. Gently.”
-Carole Fischer, a producer at BloomingOUT
Ignacio Rivera (www.ignaciorivera.com) Bloomington, Indiana
Here is an article about the Roadshow featured in Indiana Daily Student that features a pretty amazing picture of myself:
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=65507&comview=1
Dallas/Marie Spitzer (www.myspace.com/dallasmariespitzer)
Cincinatti, Ohio
The article made me think a great deal of the nature of our performances. I realize I do not always consider what the audience is receiving but what I am giving them as a shared experience. Which yes, I purposely make vague or cryptic, but I do not so much consider it escapism. I see the performances as escape and response. This is what we do for survival being of marginalized identities, creating art, and this is how we share that or release that, through performing.
It is a novel for me to read someone saying how “educational” our performances were on the transgender community as it is novel for them to witness the show. This is not meant as a bitter comment, but I have long since even tried to interpret what the audience thinks of a performance since it is such an ever-going process to me, which is ever true of my sex/gender as well.
Mary Magician Lexington, Kentucky
Be sure to check out the links to all the performers who were so incredible and supportive and sexy all the way.
The Tranny Roadshow will also be touring the Northeast and Pacific Northwest with a different line-up of performers, so don’t put your pants back on just yet…
if you didnt realize spongebob was a transexual than there is no hope for you…
..thanks
