Participants present a short (5-7 minute) talk or performance in response to the questions, "What's so hot about masculinity?" and/or "What's so hot about femininity?", responding to one or both as directly or slantily as they desire. Desire is the point -- and gender, and identification, and we will follow these vectors, fields, spectra, and tangles wherever they lead. Poetic, performative, fictional, literary critical, and personal modes, as well as any mix of these, are all welcome. The talks and performances will be followed by an informal Q&A and discussion. whats.so.hot at gmail dot com
* What's So Hot * summer salon series
*ROSEBUD BEN-ONI’S “For the Love of Sal Si Puedes (For the Love of Leave if You Can)”
*TARA BETTS asks, “How Hot is Grief?”
*FARRAH FIELD’s “Peter Pan: All Are Implicated”
*BRIAN PIETRAS presents “Call Me Gaybe: Straight Boys and Queer Parodies”
*NIINA POLLARI’s “I ♥ My Goth Boyfriend”
*EMILY SKILLINGS adds some gesture to your gender in “One Hundred and Fifteen Palaces”
*ERIK WADE’s “Send in the Clowns, There are Giants in the Sky”
Russell Juice
July 1 salon reader Russell Jaffe wrote a little roundup of the first salon on his blog. If any other participants or attendees have stuff to share, please send to whats.so.hot at gmail and I’ll toss it up!
