Femme Family NYC

My good friend Amanda, the Femme Family Madam of Southern/Country Glam (and my sisterfriend in ferocity), came up with an amazing idea for our New Year’s eve party. Instead of encouraging folk to create resolutions for themselves, she suggested that we all created revolutions and share them at the party. Revolutions that are about living and loving as whole, beautiful people.

I thought that I would like to create them when I am feeling hopeful about the world and am ready to challenge myself a bit. Posting them here feels like a great idea.

My 2010 Revolutions

• -I would like to move away from gossip, both malicious and casual kinds. True bonding and community building, in my opinion, does not occur while talking smack.
• -I want to write a poem a week. I am a reluctant poet, but I miss the electric feeling of a poem moving through my head.
• -I want to take a dance class.
• -I want to mobilize femmes to show up for protests and actions that they care about. New York is full of fucked up shit, I want to talk about those rage-inducing things and scream about them!
• -I want to be nude in public more. Because my brown, queer, fat, girl body is a protest all in itself.
• -I want to be honest, even when it hurts.
• -I want to trust in best intentions, especially with folk that I like and want to be friends with.
• -I want to look at my cervix.
• -I want to drink more pink champagne.
• -I want to eat more dark, leafy greens cooked in champagne vinegar with roasted tomatoes and whole cloves of roasted garlic and heirloom bacon.
• -I want to organize a panel about racism and anti-racism in the femme community.
• -I want to wear more gold and pink lamé.
• -I want to write and perform about the following subjects: Fat Camp, Sexwork, Hair, The Feminine Divine.

What are your revolutions for 2010?

In Ferocity,

Taueret