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Now that all my costumes are at my home, I can reflect on the last 25 years of wearing them. This is my most prized costume, a piece Charlie Le Mindu made for a show he did in collaboration with Crazy Horse in Paris. Crazy Horse is a cabaret show of sexy dancers that all have the same body type â an idea of âperfectionâ, but Charlie turned them all into multi-boobed glorious hair creatures!
After the show run was completed, he told me that I inspired this work and gave me a one-of-a-kind costume from the show. It has four parts - a cone shaped, long blonde hair wig, long blonde hair wings, a silicone multi-boob bra, and a silicone boob thong. I love it for its playful critique on body image. I love using it performatively as an absurd reinvention of a strip tease in four parts.
You might know Charlieâs work from his recent collaboration with Doja Cat for Coachella. Her brilliant dancers were tearing it up in his long blond hair suits.
Note: Mentioning that Charlie was âinspired by meâ is not to show how great I am, or that people want to make unique pieces for me, but to show how we are inspired by each other. Through sharing we open up a community and find commonality and purpose.
Nov 18, 2024
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The best $25 I spend every month. Literally pays for itself if you see one movie
plus if I see a bad movie I donât feel like I wasted money
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If youâre from brooklyn or new york city or just moved here, i know, this is cliche. But i! Donât! Care! The truffle popcorn is addicting, even if I'm farting for the rest of the movie, itâs worth it. Plus they have cute little trailers to gab about with your date or friend, but i also go alone because nobody tried to have small talk with you at the movies and you can just disassociate peacefully in blissful high-power air conditioning on a hot nyc summer day. They have guest curators on a monthly basis and do fun screenings of old flicks. Highly recommend it. Nitehawk > Alamo.
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I have another indie theater that I prefer because itâs cozier, has better vibes, is much closer to me, and everybody who works there is genuinely passionate about film. Itâs not really anything special visually but itâs a beautiful institution and itâs so fun to be there â¤ď¸
But this one is an old art deco theatre designed by architect John Eberson (he designed Loewâs Paradise in the Bronx and the Paradise Theatre in Chicago)! Itâs pretty run down/poorly managed and staffed but itâs a gorgeous building and definitely worth visiting. Not my photos but included for illustrative purposes!!
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My cats, Sad Jazz and Miss Vanjie. I have included a pic so you can know what Iâm on about. I love their weird quirky personalities! They are strongly social, patient, and so different from each other. They give me so much joy - just look at them!
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I love Las Culturistas! It feels like hanging out with friends as I practice my active listening skills. Friends who love and critique culture with many cute and uncomfortable opinions. Realness and queerness!Â
I particularly love the recent episode âRode Hard and Put Away Wetâ with Harper Steele and Will Ferrell where they chat about their Netflix documentary Will & Harper. The doc is beautiful! A road trip that revitalized the relationship between the two friends after Harper's transition at 61. This film brilliantly and generously includes us in both struggles and joy, and focuses on so many topics - age, friendship, openness, privilege, mistakes, learning. This episode is next level - comedians showing vulnerability, grace, queerness, and still being funny and entertaining af!
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Reclining âLady SasquatchâÂ
First serious piece of art I ever bought. It is textural and just gorgeous - the "Lady Sasquatch" reclining in all her glory! This series was called Ladies Sasquatch and included life-like sculptures of these incredible creatures.
About the Ladies Sasquatch art installationâŚ
âIn an attempt to imagine different sexual currencies Ladies Sasquatch valorizes cellulite, dirty fingernails, tattoos, big butts, fangs, collectivity and collaboration. The creatures in Ladies Sasquatch marry popular culture, native iconography, and radical dyke culture to create a kind of queer utopian dream world.â
Trucker Balls earring
Allyson, along with artist Dierdre Logue are the creators of Killjoyâs Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House - a haunted house dedicated to the scariness that is Lesbianism. It was amazing, creative, and funny. There was one room that had âdykesâ smashing trucker balls. I bought this gold trucker balls dangling earring in the gift shop. It's one of my favourite pieces of jewelry to wear.
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