This weekend I’ll be in Michigan, visiting friends and family and performing at Kiss My Gender with Drag King Rebellion.
Drag King Rebellion is a drag/gender performance troupe. Check out their Facebook group here, and read how they describe themselves:
Our members are folks who integrate all kinds of identities and experiences into a medley that turns out original, quality, and socially and politically conscious performances of gender. Whether we’re doing dancy pop songs, sultry ballads, cheesy musicals, beat-blasting hip-hop, or intense rock, the purpose is to entertain and educate in the same breath, and always have the realities of power, privilege and oppression in context.
I love a good street protest or petition drive, but nothing is more thrilling for me than performing in a show that blends the borders between having fun and being productive and shows how powerful it can be to link entertainment and activism.
Kiss My Gender, a show of “political commentary through gender performance and a touch of choreography,” is this Saturday, April 25th. The cost is $5 and all proceeds go to benefit QueerZone, a program that provides a safe-space for Lesbian, Bi, Gay, Trans and Queer youth, and the University of Michigan Transgender Student Scholarship. Click the flyer for more information about the show:
