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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 2011)
JW_H MARCH 18, 2011 • arts W W W .JU STO U T.CO M l Sisters, Misters and Tale Spinsters Sister Spit launches diverse Next Generation tour Stop worrying about how to discuss your HIV status. Have more intimacy & passion, and less worry in your sex life *alk (Positive TaUk) us a five sess'Cn s~\a:i group program fey gay/bt/trans guys tv mg - a th M V Sign up with 5 0 3 2 7 8 .3 8 6 4 360 . 750.7964 AIDS - >CAP incentives offered for participation rii 2011 Thursday - April 7, 2011 First Thursday Kicks o ff T JtfU J^ jD /ty N lO IiT LIVE! LIVE Shows Every Thursday N ig h t to Enhance ALL y o u r Senses! This Weeks M usical Guest. A n d N e w A p ril A rtw o rk Old Flames Created as an alternative to the drunken misogyny o f the early ‘90s spoken word scene, Sister Spit is a subcultural institution. The all female open mic night Michelle Tea estab lished with fellow queer writer Sini Anderson in San Francisco in 1994 has grown into an influential national tour of queer, feminist and otherwise radical writers and artists. “I remember when I first heard of Sister Spit I was like 19 years old. I was so excited that it existed and I was really interested,” says Amos Mac, co-founder o f the trans-male quarterly Original Plumbing magazine and member of the 2011 tour. “So being part of the tour now is just kind of full circle of evolv ing as an artist and evolving as a person.” Sister Spit has certainly evolved since its early Rambling Road Show days. M ost visi bly, the tour has gotten more masculine, re flecting Sister Spit: The Next Generation’s all-genders and trans-inclusive model. The 2011 lineup is the first to include a straight cisgender man— Portland native Blake Nelson. “[Nelson] had sent me an email that was like, ‘I wish I was a lesbian so I could go on Sister Spit,’ and 1 was like, ‘Well, you never had to be a lesbian and now you don’t even have to be a female, so why don’t you come with us?”’Tea says. “This tour is a totally new sort o f tour for Sister Spit. Voila!” Sister Spit has also become more sustain able over the years. These days, Sister (or, as Mac puts it, Mister) Spitters stay in hotels— no more seeking crash pads on the mic dur ing the show. The first year Sister Spit toured, each member got about $80 at the conclu sion— not nearly enough to break even. Now, AUSTIN YOUNG BY ERIN ROOK “When I first heard of Sister Spit I was like 19 years old. I was so excited that it existed and I was really interested ... so being part of the tour now is just kind of full circle of evolving as an artist and evolving as a person.” — AMOS MAC the tour is financially stable enough to invite more established writers such as Dorothy Allison. “I didn’t realize what an impact those three, four years o f touring had 10 years pri or,” says Tea, recalling the way fans clamored for the tour’s return long after the end o f its first generation. “I was really shocked that the people who were asking for Sister Spit were all these dif ferent ages,” including those who had seen past tours, those who just missed it and those seemingly too young to even know about it, Show Starts @ 8pm No C over H ap p y H our Till M id n ig h t! Friday - April 8, 2011 @ 8pm ’ SCAN DALS Presents . ___Tracy Underwoods . Try One of Our 11 Gourmet Specialty Pies or Build Your Own If it’s not in Just ; pizza, calzones salads and sandwiches beer and wine dine-in or to take home locally owned and run it’s not happening. 1125 SW Stark St. • Portland, OR • 97205 503.227.5887 www.scandalspdx.com calendar$justout.com 503.285.5490 atomic-pizza.com 2150 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217 Tue. - Sat.: 11 a m - 9 p m , Sun.: 4 pm - 9 pm , Mon. Closed.
