34 G: [I told that to] everybody I know, and from then on I called you "
Clit" (All laugh loudly)
Collaborative group performance among three generations of women
Holly Hughes concludes her performance with these words, a window that opens up
Clit Notes from the deeply subjective to - well, the deeply subjective.
"Preaching to the converted." (gay theater)(Gay & Lesbian Queeries)
Hughes performs
Clit Notes at the Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica until September 11.
The Duchess of Malfi
The
clit moan, the clit-vaginal moan, machine-gun moan, the WASP moan and the twisted-roe moan.
A Dialogue on The Monologue. (Last Word)
Holly Hughes is no stranger to controversy: The lesbian content of her often-autobiographical performance pieces (including The Well of Horniness and
Clit Notes) earned her a position as one of the NEA Four, a group of artists at the center of 1990's right-wing maelstrom over National Endowment for the Arts funding.
NOT JUST A STAGE
It had featured one labia talking to the other; her Tante Foofa had played the part of the
clit, which gets cut off in the climactic scene.
The Girl from Mecca
All that went through her, known through the soft sweet flesh of her lips and
clit. It was like my face felt loved temporarily.
Born to describe
His choices also evidence a more direct sexuality: Robert Morris's vaginal sculpture House of the Vetti II, 1983, replete with steel-pipe
clit and folds of pink felt, anchors one end of the room, while Isa Genzken's Gelbes Ellipsoid (Yellow Ellipsoid), 1976--an oversize yellow knitting needle--lies feminine and phallic along the wall.
"Oranges and Sardines": Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Lipstick: To answer your question, according to Merriam Webster, the word "lesbian" is defined as "a woman who is sexually attracted to other women," so Sadie has every right to call herself a
clit crusader and fly that flag.
Stone butch blues
Nobody discriminates against me for having a
clit." Gwen sighs, "We all underestimated ...
The marching days
122 and the
Clit Club and garnering particular praise for Alter Ergo, first seen in Exit Art's 1997 showcase of emerging performance artists, "Terra Bomba."
PATTY CHANG
"Femmenism," then, is one way that Third Wave women negotiate between "femininity" and "feminism." Battling erasure and getting off on exhibitionism, Jocelyn Taylor describes the intersections and contradictions between doing sex work for cash, making activist art that represents and celebrates Black lesbian sexuality, using her own body "as a political tool to challenge and defy institutionalized self-hatred," and starting the
Clit Club in New York City, a lesbian party night where "women of all shapes, colors, and sizes were encouraged to stretch their sexual boundaries and to explore lesbian sensuality" (p.
Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
Then, Grace shoved my head into her pussy, and my mouth was on a mound of hair over her
clit. She smelled like spearmint.
Sexual stigmas: don't let fear hold you back in bed
Afterward, Sheree did get off a bit with the assistance of the vibrator on her
clit and my teeth on her tit.
Bob's thing