Drag Kings! WHOOHOO!
Jan. 9th, 2010 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetI just discovered that IDKE XII (International Drag King Exposition) is going to be in Baltimore in October! I haven't been to one since '02, when it was in Columbus, but I was rereading a post from back then, and googled, and YAY!!!! Lunatickle and FabulousMissT live in B'more these days; we attended the IDKE in Columbus together back then when they lived up here. I am so very there.
http://www.idkexii.com/
On going to IDKE (again, 2002)
The show. OK, I knew I liked drag kings. I was wrong. I fucking love drag kings! IDKE is going to be traveling cities in the next few years. If it comes to your town, I highly recommend going! The environment was amazing; intensely queer and genderqueer. Although I frequently find it uncomfortable to be bi in primarily lesbian environments, that wasn't the case here at all... The audience was full of folks of all genders in full regalia. It was wonderful to be in an huge crowd of people, not be able to identify bio-sex on many of them, and have it not matter in the slightest. And, damn! Talk about some sexual energy... I've apparently determined that I'm reactive to a really wide range of "male" genders when performed by women/queerfolk/genderqueerfolk that I'm not generally drawn to in standardly gendered bio-men. Hmm. Lots of room for gender analysis in that. Of course, I'm also reactive to a lot of "femme" genders in queer women that I'm not generally in straight women. I think it's probably largely tied to the extent that my politics and my libido are intertwined. Those gender performances within queer space signify something very different than they do in straight space, and it's usually an indicator of a likely "meetings of minds" on a number of topics. The performers were amazing - I literally screamed myself hoarse over the course of the night. When I woke up Sunday I had almost no voice, and it's still noticeable today (this is really unusual for me; I think I vaguely recall having laryngitis once before in my life). It's making helpdesk work interesting. Oh, and Tristan Taormino was there! *bounce* Hot,hot,hot. Yum. I spoke with her very briefly, and she crowd-surfed over me... I wish I could describe the acts, but I honestly have no idea how to get that across in words. All I can say is "Genderfuck. Yum."
http://www.idkexii.com/
On going to IDKE (again, 2002)
The show. OK, I knew I liked drag kings. I was wrong. I fucking love drag kings! IDKE is going to be traveling cities in the next few years. If it comes to your town, I highly recommend going! The environment was amazing; intensely queer and genderqueer. Although I frequently find it uncomfortable to be bi in primarily lesbian environments, that wasn't the case here at all... The audience was full of folks of all genders in full regalia. It was wonderful to be in an huge crowd of people, not be able to identify bio-sex on many of them, and have it not matter in the slightest. And, damn! Talk about some sexual energy... I've apparently determined that I'm reactive to a really wide range of "male" genders when performed by women/queerfolk/genderqueerfolk that I'm not generally drawn to in standardly gendered bio-men. Hmm. Lots of room for gender analysis in that. Of course, I'm also reactive to a lot of "femme" genders in queer women that I'm not generally in straight women. I think it's probably largely tied to the extent that my politics and my libido are intertwined. Those gender performances within queer space signify something very different than they do in straight space, and it's usually an indicator of a likely "meetings of minds" on a number of topics. The performers were amazing - I literally screamed myself hoarse over the course of the night. When I woke up Sunday I had almost no voice, and it's still noticeable today (this is really unusual for me; I think I vaguely recall having laryngitis once before in my life). It's making helpdesk work interesting. Oh, and Tristan Taormino was there! *bounce* Hot,hot,hot. Yum. I spoke with her very briefly, and she crowd-surfed over me... I wish I could describe the acts, but I honestly have no idea how to get that across in words. All I can say is "Genderfuck. Yum."
