Author: alfabus

Dear Ms. Levy, First of all, thank you for writing Female Chauvinist Pigs. The issues you are exposing and delving into no doubt need to be discussed, whether I agree with what you wrote or not. So here’s to a continued discussion. To say that your book was a page turner that captivated my attention…

First of all, a big thanks and respect to Clea Cutthroat for starting the conversation and taking it beyond us Berlin artists and into an online forum. Please read her brilliant manifesto on free art and censorship if you haven’t already (myspace.com/cleacutthroat) It’s sometimes unbelievable to me that in a place where women’s and men’s…

What do we risk in exposure? We’re (me, ReveRso, Clea Cutthroat and Lady Gaby) in Vienna putting up our artwork and getting ready for our performances with Lady Gaby’s Sexflies. Clea gets another photo erased from her site, even though x’s are across her tits .. maybe we’re out of touch, but we’re having a…

My vision flashes. We are sitting in the town square outside of the town hall in Copenhagen, seven in the morning, our bikes piled around us. I am wearing a green boiler suit fishnets pink high heels makeup worn from the night and the boys I’m with are dressed up in pretty sweaters skinny pants…

The more I let myself give up control of the text and express ideas through dance, movements of the body and explicit use of my own body as site of experimentation onstage, the more deeply I understand that my body (all of our gendered bodies) will and always have been the literal flesh and “stage”…

This is becoming so tiresome, this discussion of women’s body images. Not only from the standpoint of a machista misogynist voice, but even from a libratory feminist voice. If we are to stop concentrating on women’s image, what they look like, what they wear, how fat or not fat they are, then we must stop…

Have I isolated myself even from Bitch Magazine? I refuse to believe that, but the self-exploitation argument mentioned three times in the love/shove section is really getting old. See “A Total Sham” … “self-exploitation;” “The Wages of Spin” … “some women fetishize their own devaluation,” and “The Pussycat Dolls Present” … “the freedom for women…

This essay was sparked by several incidents. One was riding home after a dance jam and feeling like I’d never been happier in my entire life, two is visiting the Baumarkt built near the East Side Gallery, and three is an email from a friend of mine in which she said that she might be…

Someone I once regarded as close to me recently told me I was difficult to get close to. Which is ironic because throughout my life I have been perpetually engaged with the act of stripping—emotionally, mentally, symbolically, and more recently, physically. I’ve want to expose myself. I yearn for “transparency.” When I look back on…

From the NYTimes … “In One Chechen’s Humiliation, Questions About Rule of Law” And questions about freedom of sexuality … We punks and freaks, those that would dye our hair green and paint a green cross on our foreheads and turn it upside down, shave our eyebrows and sleep around … we should stand in…