Sunday Spitty Sunday




Sunday, October 14 — San Francisco
Edinburgh Castle, 8pm

SISTER SPIT: The Next Generation
one vanload of queer female artists + writers + maniacs
coming to your town for one awesome night of shameless literary hijinks.

October-November 2007

starring:

TARA JEPSEN, survivor of the original Sister Spit's Ramblin Roadshow 1997 + 1999;
author of the chapbook Midnight Journey to the White Light Kegger and the novel-in-progress Like a Dog; published in the anthologies It's So You and Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache; host of the San Francisco's longest running queer open mic, K'Vetch!

TEXTA QUEEN, who combines magic markers and magical skills to create color-crazed portriats of excellent, half-naked females across the globe, capturing their rowdy, surly subcultural bad-assedness; creator of the Some Things Never Change calendar and coloring book; Texta has shown her work in art spaces all over the planet!

CHELSEA STARR, author of the chapbooks Long Walks on the Beach with Chelsea Starr and Candlelit Dinners with Chelsea Starr; published in the anthologies It's So You and Baby, Remember My Name; DJ of the San Francisco fance parties Hot Pants and Playboy; deisnger of wicked cute fashions!

MELIZA BANALES, author of the poetry collection Say It With Your Whole Mouth and the collection-in-progress 51 Poems About Nothing at All; published in the anthologies Revolutionary Voices, Without a Net and Baby, Remember my Name; former Grand Slam poetry slam champion and the first Latina to win a slam championship on the west coast!

DEXTER FLOWERS, author of the zine Maybe It Was Something You Ate and a memoirs-in-progress about growing up on food stamps with her feminist witch single mom, and a novel-in-progress about a teenager growing up in a group home; published in the anthologies It's So You and Baby, Remember My Name!

KAY MARIE YOAS, author of the chapbook Perfect Endings: Fresh Stories and Rotten Characters; published in the anthologies It's So You and We Don't Need Another Wave; a working-class warrior who has performed her work solo and with improv groups at Homo-a-Go-Go and other fine queer events.

MICHELLE TEA, editor of the brand new anthology It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style, and the still pretty new Baby, Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing; author of four memoirs including the recently reissued The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America and the novel Rose of No Man's Land.

with special guests (SF show)

Beth Lisick, author of Everybody into the Pool
Ali Liebegott, author of The IHOP Papers
Jennifer Blowdryer, author of Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages
Trina Robbins, author and illustrator of Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill
Rhiannon Argo, Sister Spit Spring 2007 tour survivor
Tammy Fortin, Sister Spit Ramblin' Roadshow tour troublemaker
Samara Halperin, filmmaker, writer and lover of sneakers
Cindy Emch, founder of Queer Open Mic
Sherilyn Connelly, writer and performer
Frances Varian, writer and performance artist

national tour schedule @ www.sisterspitnextgen.com