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Jeff Copeland is the author of the new book Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk On The Wild Side With Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, and the inspiration to the opening verse of the 1973 Lou Reed song “Walk On The Wildside”, was washed up. But a chance meeting with Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of ‘making it' as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever. This is the story of how an unlikely friendship between a young gay writer and a “mature” trans-gender actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. Purchase a copy of Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk On The Wild Side With Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous SuperstarJoin the Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn Facebook pageVisit the Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn YouTube channel Visit Jeff Copeland's Facebook page---------- BookedOnRock.com The Booked On Rock Store The Booked On Rock YouTube Channel Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOKINSTAGRAMTIKTOKX Find Your Nearest Independent Bookstore Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by Crowander / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by TrackTribe
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a book about one of the most infamous of Warhol's Superstars. A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break...and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of 'making it' as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever. Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved. In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a book about one of the most infamous of Warhol's Superstars. A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break...and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of 'making it' as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever. Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved. In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a book about one of the most infamous of Warhol's Superstars. A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break...and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of 'making it' as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever. Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved. In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a book about one of the most infamous of Warhol's Superstars. A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break...and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of 'making it' as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever. Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved. In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a book about one of the most infamous of Warhol's Superstars. A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break...and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of 'making it' as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever. Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved. In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
Join me this week for a chat with author, producer and screenwriter Jeff Copeland. Jeff talks about his upcoming release, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn. Jeff has tons of stories to tell and I could talk with him forever, not only about Holly but about his adventures in life. And be sure to check out Jeff's unusual book promos on YouTube.
On this episode of 3CR's Queering the Air, Madison Moffat chatted with dancer, choreographer and influencer #beatsbyblayk about being queer within the commercial entertainment industry as a trans man and overcoming the stigma and anxiety that can come with it.We also caught up with Tiger Salmon, the co-founder of the (so legendary, bordering on mythical) 1990's queer women's zine 'Wicked Women'. Madison manages to momentarily push aside her star-stuckedness to speak with them about their latest project where they revisit that important work of the past with an importantly contemporary take.'Aunty Maddy' also expresses some strong but sincere views regarding lateral violence within the TGDNB community; in light of developments during and following the recent TGD public forum about engagement with the Victorian Police. Music:Slumber Party, by Ashnikko,Salsa Gucci Frita (Live), by Holly Woodlawn,Visage, by Visage.Featured Community Events:Free Christmas morning breakfast by Queerspace, The Provincial Hotel, 299 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9:00am to 11:30am. Tickets are via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/free-queerspace-breakfast-on-christmas-morning-tickets-1098252726469Traditional Christmas day lunch by Positive Incorporated. Bookings by 20th December essential. 18+ event. Book by messaging via email posattitude13@hotmail.com, or messaging them via their FaceBook page, https://www.facebook.com/positiveattitude13.
An habitué of the vibrant New York art, fashion and nightlife scene of the 1970s and 80s, where the crowd included Cookie Mueller, Basquiat and Holly Woodlawn, Covert's works featuring celebrity graves have become a life's journey. With his first solo show opening in London, he talks to Danielle Radojcin about past lives, future pilgrimages and being a survivor.
She was the muse for Andy Warhol and Lou Reed alike, she was the woman who should've won all the awards. This week, Rachel tells us about the life and legacy of trans, Puerto Rican actress, Holly Woodlawn! ✸ Content Warnings: This episode contains adult themes and explicit language, such as homelessness, survival sex work, poverty, drugs, and terminal illness. Sources: "Holly Woodlawn" from Making Queer History "Holly Woodlawn was a transgender inspiration. We mustn't forget her achievements" by Paris Lees "Penny Arcade Remembers Holly Woodlawn" from Out "The Unforgettable Memorial of Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn" by Diana Tourjée ✦ Feel free to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen. ☻ Give us a follow on Instagram @historicallyreally to see photos from today's episode! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historicallyreally/support
Late-night TV celebrity interviews are fun diversions, but when Hollywood needs real, gritty, hard-hitting journalism, there's only one man for the job. And if it takes mispronouncing every single name in the business, then honey, he's way ahead of you. Rob teaches Ray about Sammy LaBella, a.k.a. Skip E. Lowe, whose dreams of stardom led him to befriend, interview, and/or bed more Hollywood personalities than most people probably know exist; how public access TV is the gift that keeps on giving; call-in show mishaps; early hot takes on the Donald; and why no star has shone brighter (mostly because he sweeps it himself) than Skip. If you like what we are doing, please support us on Patreon. TEAM Ray Hebel Robert W. Schneider Mark Schroeder Billy Recce Daniel Schwartzberg Gabe Crawford Natalie DeSavia ARTICLES EPISODE CLIPS Gloria Loring 1993 Interview and Song i Juvenile Skip E. Lowe interviews Eric Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas Ruth Webb, psychic Kenny Kingston--Rare 1987 TV Interview Skip E. Lowe Looks At Hollywood with Guests: Volz & Laurence Tierney Skip E. Lowe, Robert Morse 2 Charles Pierce--1992 TV Interview, Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Collins Skip E. High McCain Gets It From Skip E. Lowe Skip E. Lowe Laugh Factory Comics and Paul Moooney Pt.2 of 2 Skip E. Lowe Birthday Party 1998 Skip E. Lowe, Grace Robbins, Mark Harris, Terry Moore, Dr. Divine, Jacqueline Stallone, Helen Martin--Rare TV Interview, Good Times, 227 Tyrone Power Memorial--Linda Christian, Coleen Gray, Terry Moore, 1995 Skip SweepingHWOF Skip PSA Limo Ride with Holly Woodlawn, Brian Hamilton, Skip E. Lowe & Margee McGlory Skip E. Lowe Singing, Vivian Blaine and Don Monte Aldo Ray--Rare 1986 TV Interview Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood Rudy Valley, Alado Ray, Sharon Lee Beverly Garland on Skip E. Lowe ADDITIONAL MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS "Happy Bee" • Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro, iLife, and Logic Pro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy Halloween! This week, the girls do a special double feature of Andy Warhol's FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN and BLOOD FOR DRACULA, both of which are really by Paul Morrisey. They dish about all things Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, and Factory. Unfortunately, Roman Polanski comes up, too. Along the way: a Halloween Ends rant, Dracula 2000 and its sequels, Virgin Megastores and Vitamin C, My Bloody Valentine remake, The House of Psychotic Women boxset by Severin, Footprints on the Moon, I Like Bats, Identikit, and The Otherside of Underneath. Also some David Bowie sadness. Next week: Possession (1981)Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/Joshua's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaConkel Joshua's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkelal
Para el tercer episodio de la segunda temporada invito a Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, también conocido como Larry, un profesor boricua de la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, para conversar sobre su libro más reciente: Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (UMichigan Press, 2021). Esta es una conversación acerca del placer de investigar las cosas que amas, la importancia de enfrentarse al odio desde la academia, y la responsabilidad que tenemos todas las personas con la memoria histórica. Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance se enfoca en el desempeño y activismo drag y transgénero en Puerto Rico y su diáspora. Argumentando a favor de su potencial político, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explora las perturbaciones sociales y culturales causadas por las “locas” latinoamericanas y latinx (hombres afeminados, drag queens, artistas transgénero y mujeres rebeldes) y las diversas formas de violencia a las que se enfrentan las personas queer en Puerto Rico y los EE.UU. Este es un libro interdisciplinario, autoetnográfico y de estudios de performance sobre personas queer racializadas. El texto incluye análisis teórico y reflexiones sobre la vida y el trabajo de artistas y activistas contemporáneos, incluidos Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria y Barbra Herr; programas de televisión como RuPaul's Drag Race; películas como Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines y Mala Mala; y obras literarias de autores como Mayra Santos-Febres y Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, artista drag ocasional él mismo, demuestra cómo cada una de estas personas desestabilizan (y a veces reifican) las nociones dominantes de género y sexualidad a través del drag y su expresión transgénero encarnada. Estas representaciones brindan un medio para explorar y criticar asuntos de raza, clase, pobreza, identidad nacional y desplazamiento migratorio, al mismo tiempo que plantean una relación entre el público y los artistas que tiene una dimensión comunal similar a un ritual. El libro también analiza los asesinatos de Jorge Steven López Mercado y Kevin Fret en Puerto Rico e invita a quienes leen a desafiar, cuestionar y ampliar su conocimiento sobre la vida queer, el drag, el desempeño trans y la identidad puertorriqueña en el Caribe y la diáspora. La Fountain-Stokes también presta especial atención a la experiencia transgénero, destacando cómo activistas y artistas trans moldean sus cuerpos, promueven el cambio social y crean comunidad en un contexto que oscila entre el glamour y la abyección. Lawrence, o Larry, La Fountain-Stokes nació y creció en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Es profesor de cultura americana, lenguas y literaturas romances y estudios de género y la mujer en la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, donde enseña desde 2003. Fue director del Programa de Estudios Latinos por seis años y ahora es el director (chair) del Departamento de Cultura Americana. Recibió su bachillerato en artes de la Universidad de Harvard en 1991 y su maestría y doctorado de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York en 1999. Su libro Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009) trata sobre migración y cultura homosexual puertorriqueña. También ha publicado Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009), Abolición del pato (2013) y Un breve y transformador relato de la historia queer (2016). La Editorial Isla Negra publicó su libro Escenas transcaribeñas: ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura en 2018. Larry se presenta artísticamente como Lola von Miramar desde 2010 y aparece en la serie Cooking with Drag Queens en YouTube. Presenta Yasmín S. Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.
Para el tercer episodio de la segunda temporada invito a Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, también conocido como Larry, un profesor boricua de la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, para conversar sobre su libro más reciente: Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (UMichigan Press, 2021). Esta es una conversación acerca del placer de investigar las cosas que amas, la importancia de enfrentarse al odio desde la academia, y la responsabilidad que tenemos todas las personas con la memoria histórica. Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance se enfoca en el desempeño y activismo drag y transgénero en Puerto Rico y su diáspora. Argumentando a favor de su potencial político, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explora las perturbaciones sociales y culturales causadas por las “locas” latinoamericanas y latinx (hombres afeminados, drag queens, artistas transgénero y mujeres rebeldes) y las diversas formas de violencia a las que se enfrentan las personas queer en Puerto Rico y los EE.UU. Este es un libro interdisciplinario, autoetnográfico y de estudios de performance sobre personas queer racializadas. El texto incluye análisis teórico y reflexiones sobre la vida y el trabajo de artistas y activistas contemporáneos, incluidos Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria y Barbra Herr; programas de televisión como RuPaul's Drag Race; películas como Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines y Mala Mala; y obras literarias de autores como Mayra Santos-Febres y Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, artista drag ocasional él mismo, demuestra cómo cada una de estas personas desestabilizan (y a veces reifican) las nociones dominantes de género y sexualidad a través del drag y su expresión transgénero encarnada. Estas representaciones brindan un medio para explorar y criticar asuntos de raza, clase, pobreza, identidad nacional y desplazamiento migratorio, al mismo tiempo que plantean una relación entre el público y los artistas que tiene una dimensión comunal similar a un ritual. El libro también analiza los asesinatos de Jorge Steven López Mercado y Kevin Fret en Puerto Rico e invita a quienes leen a desafiar, cuestionar y ampliar su conocimiento sobre la vida queer, el drag, el desempeño trans y la identidad puertorriqueña en el Caribe y la diáspora. La Fountain-Stokes también presta especial atención a la experiencia transgénero, destacando cómo activistas y artistas trans moldean sus cuerpos, promueven el cambio social y crean comunidad en un contexto que oscila entre el glamour y la abyección. Lawrence, o Larry, La Fountain-Stokes nació y creció en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Es profesor de cultura americana, lenguas y literaturas romances y estudios de género y la mujer en la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, donde enseña desde 2003. Fue director del Programa de Estudios Latinos por seis años y ahora es el director (chair) del Departamento de Cultura Americana. Recibió su bachillerato en artes de la Universidad de Harvard en 1991 y su maestría y doctorado de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York en 1999. Su libro Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009) trata sobre migración y cultura homosexual puertorriqueña. También ha publicado Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009), Abolición del pato (2013) y Un breve y transformador relato de la historia queer (2016). La Editorial Isla Negra publicó su libro Escenas transcaribeñas: ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura en 2018. Larry se presenta artísticamente como Lola von Miramar desde 2010 y aparece en la serie Cooking with Drag Queens en YouTube. Presenta Yasmín S. Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.
Para el tercer episodio de la segunda temporada invito a Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, también conocido como Larry, un profesor boricua de la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, para conversar sobre su libro más reciente: Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (UMichigan Press, 2021). Esta es una conversación acerca del placer de investigar las cosas que amas, la importancia de enfrentarse al odio desde la academia, y la responsabilidad que tenemos todas las personas con la memoria histórica. Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance se enfoca en el desempeño y activismo drag y transgénero en Puerto Rico y su diáspora. Argumentando a favor de su potencial político, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explora las perturbaciones sociales y culturales causadas por las “locas” latinoamericanas y latinx (hombres afeminados, drag queens, artistas transgénero y mujeres rebeldes) y las diversas formas de violencia a las que se enfrentan las personas queer en Puerto Rico y los EE.UU. Este es un libro interdisciplinario, autoetnográfico y de estudios de performance sobre personas queer racializadas. El texto incluye análisis teórico y reflexiones sobre la vida y el trabajo de artistas y activistas contemporáneos, incluidos Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria y Barbra Herr; programas de televisión como RuPaul's Drag Race; películas como Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines y Mala Mala; y obras literarias de autores como Mayra Santos-Febres y Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, artista drag ocasional él mismo, demuestra cómo cada una de estas personas desestabilizan (y a veces reifican) las nociones dominantes de género y sexualidad a través del drag y su expresión transgénero encarnada. Estas representaciones brindan un medio para explorar y criticar asuntos de raza, clase, pobreza, identidad nacional y desplazamiento migratorio, al mismo tiempo que plantean una relación entre el público y los artistas que tiene una dimensión comunal similar a un ritual. El libro también analiza los asesinatos de Jorge Steven López Mercado y Kevin Fret en Puerto Rico e invita a quienes leen a desafiar, cuestionar y ampliar su conocimiento sobre la vida queer, el drag, el desempeño trans y la identidad puertorriqueña en el Caribe y la diáspora. La Fountain-Stokes también presta especial atención a la experiencia transgénero, destacando cómo activistas y artistas trans moldean sus cuerpos, promueven el cambio social y crean comunidad en un contexto que oscila entre el glamour y la abyección. Lawrence, o Larry, La Fountain-Stokes nació y creció en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Es profesor de cultura americana, lenguas y literaturas romances y estudios de género y la mujer en la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, donde enseña desde 2003. Fue director del Programa de Estudios Latinos por seis años y ahora es el director (chair) del Departamento de Cultura Americana. Recibió su bachillerato en artes de la Universidad de Harvard en 1991 y su maestría y doctorado de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York en 1999. Su libro Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009) trata sobre migración y cultura homosexual puertorriqueña. También ha publicado Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009), Abolición del pato (2013) y Un breve y transformador relato de la historia queer (2016). La Editorial Isla Negra publicó su libro Escenas transcaribeñas: ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura en 2018. Larry se presenta artísticamente como Lola von Miramar desde 2010 y aparece en la serie Cooking with Drag Queens en YouTube. Presenta Yasmín S. Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.
Para el tercer episodio de la segunda temporada invito a Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, también conocido como Larry, un profesor boricua de la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, para conversar sobre su libro más reciente: Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (UMichigan Press, 2021). Esta es una conversación acerca del placer de investigar las cosas que amas, la importancia de enfrentarse al odio desde la academia, y la responsabilidad que tenemos todas las personas con la memoria histórica. Translocas. The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance se enfoca en el desempeño y activismo drag y transgénero en Puerto Rico y su diáspora. Argumentando a favor de su potencial político, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explora las perturbaciones sociales y culturales causadas por las “locas” latinoamericanas y latinx (hombres afeminados, drag queens, artistas transgénero y mujeres rebeldes) y las diversas formas de violencia a las que se enfrentan las personas queer en Puerto Rico y los EE.UU. Este es un libro interdisciplinario, autoetnográfico y de estudios de performance sobre personas queer racializadas. El texto incluye análisis teórico y reflexiones sobre la vida y el trabajo de artistas y activistas contemporáneos, incluidos Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria y Barbra Herr; programas de televisión como RuPaul's Drag Race; películas como Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines y Mala Mala; y obras literarias de autores como Mayra Santos-Febres y Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, artista drag ocasional él mismo, demuestra cómo cada una de estas personas desestabilizan (y a veces reifican) las nociones dominantes de género y sexualidad a través del drag y su expresión transgénero encarnada. Estas representaciones brindan un medio para explorar y criticar asuntos de raza, clase, pobreza, identidad nacional y desplazamiento migratorio, al mismo tiempo que plantean una relación entre el público y los artistas que tiene una dimensión comunal similar a un ritual. El libro también analiza los asesinatos de Jorge Steven López Mercado y Kevin Fret en Puerto Rico e invita a quienes leen a desafiar, cuestionar y ampliar su conocimiento sobre la vida queer, el drag, el desempeño trans y la identidad puertorriqueña en el Caribe y la diáspora. La Fountain-Stokes también presta especial atención a la experiencia transgénero, destacando cómo activistas y artistas trans moldean sus cuerpos, promueven el cambio social y crean comunidad en un contexto que oscila entre el glamour y la abyección. Lawrence, o Larry, La Fountain-Stokes nació y creció en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Es profesor de cultura americana, lenguas y literaturas romances y estudios de género y la mujer en la Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor, donde enseña desde 2003. Fue director del Programa de Estudios Latinos por seis años y ahora es el director (chair) del Departamento de Cultura Americana. Recibió su bachillerato en artes de la Universidad de Harvard en 1991 y su maestría y doctorado de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York en 1999. Su libro Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009) trata sobre migración y cultura homosexual puertorriqueña. También ha publicado Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009), Abolición del pato (2013) y Un breve y transformador relato de la historia queer (2016). La Editorial Isla Negra publicó su libro Escenas transcaribeñas: ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura en 2018. Larry se presenta artísticamente como Lola von Miramar desde 2010 y aparece en la serie Cooking with Drag Queens en YouTube. Presenta Yasmín S. Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.
Holly Woodlawn (1946-2015) is an actress and transgender icon whose impact spanned decades. Typically, pop artist Andy Warhol gave different artists and performers their fifteen minutes of fame through his experimental films and avant garde party scene. But this star's legacy persisted long after she first graced the screen.Special thanks to our exclusive Pride Month sponsor, Mercedes-Benz! Mercedes-Benz continues to support and stand with the LGBTQIA+ community. Listen all month long as we celebrate women whose authentic expression in their lives and bodies of work have expanded the norms of gender and sexuality in the performing arts.History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Ale Tejeda, Sara Schleede, and Alex Jhamb Burns. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.We are offering free ad space on Wonder Media Network shows to organizations working towards social justice. For more information, please email Jenny at pod@wondermedianetwork.com.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitter
El and Josie chat about all the queer books El read in 2021! Check out the Gender Journeys Storygraph Challenges: Fiction Challenge Nonfiction Challenge While you're there, follow El's Storygraph at OutToExist! Queer Books El Read in 2021: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Raising Them by Kyl Myers What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest The Song of Achilles by Madelline Miller The Deep by Rivers Solomon Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo The Stonewall Reader edited by The New York Public Library Glitter+Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die edited by dave ring All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan Transgender History by Susan Stryker Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility Captive Genders by Eric A Stanley A Low Life In High Heels by Holly Woodlawn and Jeffrey Copeland In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Cemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasWhen The Tiger Comes Down the Mountain How To Survive a Plague by David France Detransition Baby by Torey Peters All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley Normal Life by Dean Spade Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby Pheonix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and A.R. Capetta The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman Between Perfect and Real by Roy Stoeve The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver Nonbinary Lives edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker and Kat Gupta Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore The House In the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam Real Queer America by Samantha Allen When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzie Lee Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs *** Follow us on social media or find us online! Twitter: @Gender_Journeys Tumblr: GenderJourneys.tumblr.com Website: JosieWrites.com/GenderJourneys Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Need some advice? Reach out to us at josiewrites.qtn@gmail.com!
Un 27 de octubre de 2013 fallecía el cantante y compositor estadounidense Lewis Allen conocido como ‘Lou' Reed. Considerado el padre del rock alternativo, comenzó su carrera primero como líder del grupo The Velvet Underground y luego en solitario. Influyente en la cultura pop desde la década de 1960. Hizo colaboraciones y contactos con creadores como Andy Warhol y David Bowie. Su original estilo e influencia la generó gran fama entre las vanguardias musicales posteriores, sin embargo, Reed fue considerado habitualmente como un músico «de culto». Su canción más popular “Walk on the Wild Side”ofrece una síntesis de los primeros años de vida de Holly Woodlawn, y también habla de Joe Dallesandro, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis y Joe Campbell, todos ellos ‘superestrellas' de la constelación Warhol. El poeta y músico de Brooklyn quiso rendirles tributo en una canción alegre, incluso frívola en apariencia, que se nutre de rumores, indiscreciones, bromas privadas y leyendas urbanas, pero aborda también, con crudeza y sin tapujos, todo lo que de sórdido y de precario tuvieron las vidas de sus protagonistas. Hoy escucharemos de Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side.
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and objection. Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Even though folks have been crossdressing for entertainment since the dawn of time, the rise of the modern drag queen can be traced back to a some relatively recent events and a few key artists.While American society in the 1960s was opening up to the many possibilities offered by the sexual revolution, a lot of drag artists took the art of female impersonation very seriously, and didn't stray too far from a feminine ideal. It was folks on the fringe like Divine, Sylvester, the Cockettes, Holly Woodlawn and David Bowie who shaped drag into a multi-faceted art form we see today.Today, queer educator, doctor of drag Lady J Martinez O'Neal Davenport joins us to take a look at the rise of the modern drag queen, from Holly Woodlawn and the Warhol Superstars to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona to RuPaul who made her-story by being the first drag queen to get signed by a major record label.
Irish drag queens Candy Warhol and Kiki St Clair return for a second season and are joined by drag legend BenDelaCreme! The Rupaul's Drag Race All Star and Seattle icon stops by to chat about her Hulu special, her relationships with Jinkx Monsoon and Peaches Christ, her comedic inspirations, the importance of diversity in drag and the iconic Gremlins 2. Plus the queens meet their pop culture expert Max for Gay Gasp where they discuss their personal underrated gay icons, The Masked Singer, Madonna's infamous Bedtime Stories live reading and Holly Woodlawn's iconic tv appearance.Hosted by Candy Warhol , Kiki St Clair and Maximillion Foy - For more information head to friendsofdorothypod.com or @friendsofdorothypod on IG.
Alan and Jeanne Abel's Is There Sex After Death? is a mockumentary from 1971 that dares to ask the hard hitting questions with ridiculous answers. It's a series of vignettes with some familiar faces like Buck Henry, Marshall Efron, Holly Woodlawn, Robert Downey, and more.Heather Drain and Skizz Cyzyk join Mike to discuss pranks, Jenny Abel's Abel Raises Cain, and much more.Be sure to listen to the end of the episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alan and Jeanne Abel's Is There Sex After Death? is a mockumentary from 1971 that dares to ask the hard hitting questions with ridiculous answers. It’s a series of vignettes with some familiar faces like Buck Henry, Myron Efron, Holly Woodlawn, Robert Downey, and more. Heather Drain and Skizz Cyzyk join Mike to discuss pranks, Jenny Abel's Abel Raises Cain, and much more.Be sure to listen to the end of the episode.
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[Originally posted as FOF #2780 – The Puerto Rican Bombshell, Barbra Herr, on Sep 17, 2019]Television in Puerto Rico in the 1970s and 80s featured drag front in center with many comedy legends cross-dressing for laughs. During that time, Walter Mercado, the flamboyant psychic astrologer and bombshells like Iris Chacon became household names all over the world.Iris Chacon was the spokesperson for Amelie Coolant in the 80s because the word butt and the word coolant sound the same in Spanish.You know corrupt Gov. Roselló’s gig was up when even politically neutral Walter Mercado asked him to resign. Photo: Walter MercadoOne cabaret sensation who dazzled the airwaves was Barbra Herr, who along with her drag mamita, Pantojas brought lavish performances to life in the best gay and straight nigclubs in San Juan.Today, Puerto Rican bombshell Barbra Herr joins us to talk her amazing career as a drag and cabaret performer, from fighting the AIDS crisis in Puerto Rico to working with the legends in New York City.Plus– Barbra shares her amazing stories of being with Holly Woodlawn when she first heard Andy Warhol died, her friendship with Dominique Jackson from Pose, and what really happened to the dead man found in the chest belonging to Paris is Burning’s Dorian Corey.
A groundbreaking, rule breaking transgender spirit reconnects with an old friend against the odds. To read more about Holly Woodlawn, CLICK HERE.
This week we focus on the Warhol Superstars featured in Lou Reed's classic song 'Walk on the Wild Side'. Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis served as inspiration to both Lou Reed, Andy Warhol and many others along the way. This incredibly fabulous array of trailblazers paved the way with their talent, passion and strength and we hope you find them all as inspiring as we do! Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!! For $80 off your first month of HelloFresh, go to HelloFresh.com/MUSES80 and enter MUSES80. Get your first month of birth control from forhers.com for just $5 right now while supplies last (and subject to doctor approval). See website for full details.
This week we focus on the Warhol Superstars featured in Lou Reed's classic song 'Walk on the Wild Side'. Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis served as inspiration to both Lou Reed, Andy Warhol and many others along the way. This incredibly fabulous array of trailblazers paved the way with their talent, passion and strength and we hope you find them all as inspiring as we do! Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!! For $80 off your first month of HelloFresh, go to HelloFresh.com/MUSES80 and enter MUSES80. Get your first month of birth control from forhers.com for just $5 right now while supplies last (and subject to doctor approval). See website for full details.
The subtitle of Mcleod's book is "New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock'n'Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture." Our conversation with Mcleod unearths connections (and literally, maps) between the movers and shakers of mid-century culture in New York City, San Francisco, and eventually, middle America.
JEFF COPELAND is an author, screenwriter and non-fiction television producer whose close friendship with Andy Warhol superstar HOLLY WOODLAWN (immortalized in Lou Reed's biggest hit song "Walk On the Wild Side") dramatically impacted his professional and personal life in ways he never expected. (46:40) EXPLICIT EPISODE NOTES: Andy Warhol made her famous. Lou Reed immortalized her in song. And JEFF COPELAND wrote the book that chronicles the extraordinary journey of a 15-year-old runaway who, as Reed croons, “shaved her legs and then he was a she.” As Jeff tells me in his PIERSON TO PERSON episode WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, he distinctly remembers the first time he laid eyes on the drag queen who would so dramatically impact his professional and personal life. JEFF: “I spotted this androgynous being, and I couldn’t figure out if this was a man or a woman. I turned to my friend and asked, ‘Who is that?’ And he said, ‘Oh, that’s Holly Woodlawn. She’s an Andy Warhol superstar. Don’t bother with her. She’s a mess!’ And I was intrigued. That night, as I tried to sleep, I couldn’t get Holly Woodlawn out of my mind. She just haunted me.” Jeff was a 25-year-old aspiring screenwriter at the time, and his fascination with Holly Woodlawn quickly turned into action. He found Holly, then 42, listed in the phone book, called her up and said he was writing a movie that she’d be perfect for. He invited her to dinner and the two hit it off immediately. (Jeff would later move into the apartment next to Holly’s.) JEFF: “We were extremely close. She told me her secrets. I told her mine. We shared the same insecurities. We were both misfits trying to fit in.” Jeff finished his script and started shopping it around with Holly Woodlawn attached. Nobody was interested. However, an intern at a literary agency fished the script out of the trashcan it had been thrown into – along with some biographical information and photos of Holly that Jeff had also submitted – and thought her story would make for a good book. The intern’s intuition proved to be right. A LOW LIFE IN HIGH HEELS: THE HOLLY WOODLAWN STORY was published in 1991 – a collaboration between Holly and Jeff, with Jeff doing the heavy lifting. Although Jeff didn’t really want to write a book, he agreed to do it with the understanding that if the movie rights were sold, he would write the screenplay. CUT TO: A year later, Jeff reads in Liz Smith’s gossip column that Madonna is going to star in a film based on Holly Woodlawn’s book and that actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein is going to write the screenplay. JEFF: “It was devastating. It was such a painful experience for me to have my best friend turn on me like that. She, essentially, stabbed me in the back. But I ended up thinking, ‘You know, Holly Woodlawn has only one story. Jeff Copeland has a million he can whip up. So, Holly, you take your story and go with Harvey Fierstein. Go with Columbia Pictures.’ I wasn’t going to stand in the way.” Eventually, the Madonna/Fierstein/Columbia deal fell through. And, despite the script being optioned a few more times by other producers, no movie about the life of Holly Woodlawn was ever made. But Holly never gave up hope that one day it would be – even on her deathbed. JEFF: “Holly was like Norma Desmond, clinging to that dream. And it was very tragic. Holly was an alcoholic and she just spiraled out of control. It really bothered me to see her decline physically because of her alcoholism. And when I saw her last, she was living in a convalescent home and I actually brought her some gingerbread from Starbucks, and tried to make peace. I never stopped caring about Holly or her wellbeing.” Holly Woodlawn died on December 6, 2015 at the age of 69. Jeff Copeland is now writing a new book about his many wild experiences with her called: Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn. A LOW LIFE IN HIGH HEELS: THE HOLLY WOODLAWN STORY is available on Amazon: Many thanks to Poddington Bear for the opening music featured in this episode royalty free through Creative Commons licensing: "On a Wing" by Poddington Bear - soundofpicture.com
Episode 19: The Haunting of the Hotel Chelsea Jay walks us through the haunting of the Hotel Chelsea – New York’s (in)famous hotel. This story contains: 1. The Hotel Chelsea (Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll!) 2. The Ghost of Dylan Thomas (Go gentle into that goodnight, Dylan!) 3. Andy Warhol (Chelsea Girls – Edie Sedgwick and Holly Woodlawn!) 4. Arthur Miller, Jasper Johns, and Madonna (Star f*#king!) 5. Sid and Nancy (Drugs, Murder, and Ghosts!) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.
OFTV brings you the first in a three part series on the trio of trans Warhol muses! Holly Woodlawn, trans Puerto Rican Superstar! Works Cited: Superstar in a Housedress, film and book, by Craig Highberger WarholStars.org A Low-Life in High Heels, by Holly Woodlawn https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/sep/26/art.theatre
A hearty Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to our fans and listeners! Gary and Roscoe celebrate their first holiday podcast with Seasons Greetings! Need an Elf name? The official Santa's Elf Name Generator (Like this Or this) helps Gary and Roscoe find just the right moniker for their North Pole residency. Frank Capra figures prominently in today's episode, so we're introducing a new segment inspired by the wonderful 1941 film Meet John Doe. More about the film It's the character of "Sourpuss Smithers" read more, and it gives Gary and Roscoe a chance to air their pet peeves of the week. Roscoe's is all about the misuse of language, while Gary can't bear waiting in line. Tune in for more of what makes us sourpusses in future episodes. Happy Birthday, Frank Sinatra! He'd be 100 today. It was a very good century... Broadway openings this week include Al Pacino in China Doll Variety review, and Jennifer Hudson in The Color Purple NY Times review. Plus School of Rock, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Variety review. Booth One Experience #1 - Gary and our producer attend the final dress rehearsal of the the Lyric Opera's original production of Bel Canto, adapted from the novel by Ann Patchett. A thrilling experience and one made even more special by a brush with the great world-class soprano Renee Fleming! We even rub elbows with the composer and librettist! What a day! Chicago Tribune review Booth One Experience #2 - Our featured segment this week is an interview with Karolyn Grimes Official site, known to all as Zuzu Bailey in the original 1946 film It's A Wonderful Life. Gary caught up with her busy Christmas season schedule at the beautiful Genesee Theatre web site in Waukegan, Illinois, where she was doing a presentation prior to the screenings of the film. We talk about the film, her childhood, her career, and her newfound calling as the ambassador of the movie and its legacy. And there are a few surprises, like her favorite Christmas movies (besides IAWL) and what she pretended to be most as a child. We hope you enjoy the piece. A shout out to friend of the podcast Marie Noble and her Booth One experience as singer Andrea Bocelli makes a surprise appearance at her company Christmas party in New York. Now that's Booth One-y! Here's the link to the TMZ story. How cool to have Bocelli drop by on his way to Madison Square Garden to sing Ave Maria for his friend's party. Don't forget to send us your Booth One photos and experiences so that we can post to our website. Reach out to us at www.Booth-One.com or on Facebook. We appreciate the "likes"! Kiss of Death: Holly Woodlawn, transgender star of 1970's underground films and protege of Andy Warhol, dies at 69. She was an icon to many and maybe best known from Lou Reed's pop hit Walk On The Wild Side: "Holly came from Miami, F-L-A Hitchhiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side." After a life of fleeting fame and career ups and downs, Holly rebounded in the 1980's as a cabaret singer and musical revue actress. Her last role was in an episode of Amazon's award-winning series Transparent, starring Jeffrey Tambor. Full obit Gary reads a very moving tribute to Ms. Woodlawn posted on Facebook by Alexandra Billings, a friend of the show who is also a star of Transparent. We remember Holly Woodlawn - a muse, an actress, and an inspiration to many.
Matthew Bannister on The Irish cyclist, strong man and farm labourer Mick Murphy who won a famous victory in the 1958 round Ireland race. The Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi who boasted that he tricked the Americans into invading his country. The American soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, who was the first black singer to appear at La Scala in Milan. Ther last surviving Indian king from the days of the British Raj. Brajraj Mahapatra ended his days in poverty. And Holly Woodlawn, the transgender actress who starred in Andy Warhol's film "Trash" and Lou Reed's song "Walk On The Wild Side"
Conrad Santa Vicca was best known as Divine’s dresser. When he was diagnosed with AIDS he decided to fulfill his dream of becoming a painter. His work was extraordinary, as the art world quickly recognized.Ronnie and I met Conrad at a Holly Woodlawn party in a Silverlake backyard. The three of us talked about life and death under a huge old pepper tree. The stars were bright and the summer night was warm. We knew Conrad was dying. His healthy looking tan was the result of drugs they were giving him. When he lit up a joint and offered to pass it to us I didn’t hesitate. My older brother was gay and I knew you couldn’t get AIDS from a passed cigarette. I also knew what it would mean to Conrad at that point in his life to have a smart ass white girl share a smoke with him without a flinch. Ronnie threw me a horrified look but, slump shouldered and secretly pissed off, he took a puff, too. Conrad appreciated what we had done and the conversation we had then about his race with time to create all the art pouring into his mind was a life changer for us. Conrad worked as many hours as he could every day to bring as many paintings to life as he could while there was still time. That was a guru moment for us. Parts of that conversation are in the lyrics of this song.When faced with the descent into a painful death Conrad took his own life.When we heard it Ronnie wrote this. A Powa is a Tibetan meditation or prayer that’s supposed to reacquaint the confused soul of the recently disentangled with the infinite consciousness and compassion that is our true home.“He walks into the bright Collision of every candy bar Kisses and favorite TV shows Sunshine on electric signs Everything he wants to know.”Some of the other lyrics reappeared in the Lucid Nation song L.A. River. Listen to the song: Click Here
Holly Woodlawn returns! You wanted more, you got it! Today we have part two of our fabulous conversation with THE Andy Warhol Superstar, the legendary Holly Woodlawn who talks about what kind of food she would be made from if Madame Tussot's Wax Museum were to make a sculpture of her out of food (like the chocolate Elton John statue.)Also on today's show Marc and Fausto talk about the brand-new iTunes 4.9 and why it's getting all the podcasters (people like us) panties in a bunch. But don't worry, we're not going anywhere! Part 2 of 2.
Today we celebrate our 100th show with a fabulous conversation with the film actress, cabaret signer, author and living legend Holly Woodlawn about her book "A Low Life in High Heels" that's being made into a film.Holly Woodlawn was one of the first breakout Andy Warhol Superstars -people who were famous in New York in the late 70's for being their outrageous selves, and for being in his (actually Paul Morrisey's) films. They're the ones who started the saying "Famous for Fifteen Minutes," which mean that fame was short-lived and that celebrites had a tendency to burn bright and die young. What makes Holly Woodlawn even more extraordinary is that she has outlasted a lot of her peers because of luck, sheer will, and a generous optimism and love for humanity.Listen as two generations of Puerto Rican drag queens (Fausto and Holly) match wits, widsom and warmth in this truly fab interview. (Part 1 of 2)
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