I have found The One – performance 25 March 2011 

amira.h.’s performance, The One, is an act of rebellion. Raised as a Muslim, much of amira.h.’s adolescence was spent thinking about, talking about, and fighting about the issue of marriage. Now, at age twenty-seven, these same issues are still making their presence felt in her life-the contradictory life of an unmarried queer Muslim visual artist. Intrigued with instruction and ritual, as well as testing the limits of the body and how much it can endure, amira.h. presents herself, alone, as both bride and groom performing one of the rituals of marriage.

Exorcising a tradition that will not take place in her life, the solitary figure portrays a sense of mourning, pathos and loneliness, with the end result being strangely celebratory. amira.h. invites the viewer to consider and question their own assumptions and expectations concerning gender, sexuality and power whilst she stands on the dichotomous altar of her identity. Come along and celebrate The One. amira’s work questions the roles of young women in the Muslim/domestic sphere and (expectations placed on them); fat/queer/feminist politics and rituals (in marriage and religion) and transgression of these/contradiction/failure.

via art gallery adelaide - artoom5

Blast Off Burlesque Stimulus Package - Syrens of the South (via DapperDannyDarling)

Just reminded of this by all the burlesque performers catching up on their funding post floods.moneymoneymoney!

FemmeCast Video 1-Activist Stretching (via FemmeCast)

Silly but it made me smile: activist stretches for femmes, from from the Queer Fat Femmes.