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MARCH 18, 2011
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Sisters, Misters
and Tale Spinsters
Sister Spit launches diverse
Next Generation tour
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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,
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