BOOKISH: Sister spit, bony boys and good, old-fashioned teatime

This week in Bookish: Boys with strange bones, tea-drinking tours and the Sister Spit tour comes to Penn.

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BOOKISH: Sister spit, bony boys and good, old-fashioned teatime

POSTED: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 5:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Tuesday, April 24

Spitting Sisters

Girls don't burp, girls don't spit and they certainly don't produce prosaic literary masterpieces. Not so for the raucous ladies and/or otherly gendered creative badasses that make up this year's Sister Spit tour. Now in its 18^th year, the tour has featured the crème de la crème of queer activists, writers, performance artists, and musicians. This year's cast includes co-founder Michelle Tea, a powerful voice in the queer literary world whose article “The Gossip Takes Paris” was awarded Best Music Writing of 2010. Since then, she's co-written a book with The Gossip's frontwoman Beth Ditto about the star's rise to fame. Following the music theme, ex-Gravy Train singer/dancer Brontez Purnell will be performing tonight, along with other esteemed guests including sex worker advocate/performance artist Erin Markey and award-winning slam poet Kit Yan. As performers who've often been dismissed by The Establishment, tonight's takeover at the Kelly Writers House at Penn is especially fitting. Guaranteed to impress, provoke and inspire, tonight's performance will prove that womyn can not only spit, but knock you out of your seat with the power of their words.

8 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, RSVP @ wh@writing.upenn.edu

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