Unfortunately this event is canceled. We hope that it will be rescheduled!
This will be a great discussion covering a vast array of topics. This is one of those events that participating in will be the best way to experience it. Melissa and her girlfriend Sini Anderson have had an enormous impact on the world around them.
Book Reading and Discussion
Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
Sunday, March 28
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
CSPC
Main Space
Join us for an evening of book reading and conversation by author Melissa Febos. Melissa's book is about her four-year experience as a professional dominatrix, but also deals with themes of addiction, feminism, sexual politics and identity, and whatever else you can probably imagine. And joining Melissa will be here girlfriend, Sini Anderson, noted performance artist, poet, producer, and director, who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Book Reading and Discussion ~ Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
What: Memoirs of a Dominatrix
Schedule:
Sunday, March 28
When:
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: In the main space
Who: 18+.
Cost: Free, $5 suggested donation
Description:
Join us for an evening of book reading and conversation by author Melissa Febos. Joining Melissa will be here girlfriend, Sini Anderson, noted performance artist, poet, producer, and director, who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Melissa's book is about her four-year experience as a professional dominatrix, but also deals with themes of addiction, feminism, sexual politics and identity, and whatever else you can probably imagine. You can check her out on her website
www.melissafebos.com. Who is Sini Anderson?
In 1995, Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea started Sister Spit, the infamous all-girl open mic series that took San Francisco by storm with a weekly, anything goes, free show. After two years, Anderson and Tea sat down with a map and a pitcher of margaritas and planned an impossible 35-city tour, bringing with them 10 other performers, whom they picked out of a hat. They would repeat this ritual for the next five years, touring with over 40 different writers, performers, and trapeze artists. They were signed to Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records with Sister Spit's first album I Spit On Your Country. To their surprise, this first tour they performed to mostly sold out audiences across the country and Canada. Anderson and Tea kept this up for six years, and traveled with over 40 different performers. Anderson went on to be the artistic director of the non-profit of the same name until 2005. She plans to someday finish a feature length documentary about the Spitters.
Anderson is a collaborator by nature. She has performed and made original work with countless musicians and artists who inspire her. She often asks musicians to create original music for her, and then writes and shoots video to accompany it. These artists have included: Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre), Johanna Fateman (Le Tigre), Kaia Wilson (The Butchies), Amy Ray (The Indigo Girls), Bitch (Bitch and Animal, Capital B), Passion Doll, and Elise Baldwin, among many others.
She still performs regularly, and in the past has had the privilege of reading with some of her heroes, including Dorothy Allison, Alice Walker, Patti Smith, and hundreds of other performers whom you wouldn't know of, but ought to.
Among other places, Anderson's work can be found in the anthologies The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (ThunderMouth Press) and Word Warriors (Seal Press). She has written for Good Vibrations and other publications, and her work can be heard on any of the four Sister Spit albums, in addition to her three collaborative studio albums. Mostly, she writes about her feelings.
Her work has been supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission, The Horizons Foundation, Theatre Bay Area's Cash Program, The California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts San Francisco, Open Meadows, The Women's Foundation, and the Astraea Foundation.
She has served as the Chief Curator and Artistic Director for The National Queer Arts Festival, a co-producer for the Nectar Stage at San Francisco's Pride, president of the board of directors for the Harvey Milk Institute, and co-chair of the board of directors for The Queer Cultural Center.
When Anderson is not making shows, she works in independent film. Her credits include, By Hook or By Crook, Mango Kiss, Jaded Consumer Looking for Something More, Fumbling Towards Rock: The Miriam and Helen Story, Karma Calling, Maggots and Men, and more. She is currently finishing a book trailer for the memoir Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press), by Melissa Febos, and is in the early stages of making a documentary about the seminal musician and feminist, Kathleen Hanna.
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