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Title: Punch-Line Politics Riki Wilchins's ''one trans show'' takes her from serious to
Post by: Shana A on December 10, 2009, 12:38:24 PM
Post by: Shana A on December 10, 2009, 12:38:24 PM
Punch-Line Politics
Riki Wilchins's ''one trans show'' takes her from serious to stand-up, but her mission stays the same
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Published on December 10, 2009
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716 (http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716)
Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar....
Wait, scratch that.
Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new turn -- to comedy. But it's not the sort of routine that might play in the Catskills, circa 1950.
Instead, the D.C.-based Wilchins, who headed the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) through the first decade of the century and was lauded by Time magazine in 2001 as a civic innovator, is playing for laughs politically with her "one trans show," The MANgina Monologues.
Riki Wilchins's ''one trans show'' takes her from serious to stand-up, but her mission stays the same
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Published on December 10, 2009
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716 (http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716)
Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar....
Wait, scratch that.
Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new turn -- to comedy. But it's not the sort of routine that might play in the Catskills, circa 1950.
Instead, the D.C.-based Wilchins, who headed the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) through the first decade of the century and was lauded by Time magazine in 2001 as a civic innovator, is playing for laughs politically with her "one trans show," The MANgina Monologues.
Title: Punch-Line Politics
Post by: Butterfly on December 12, 2009, 02:00:20 AM
Post by: Butterfly on December 12, 2009, 02:00:20 AM
Punch-Line Politics
Metro Weekly
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Photography by Todd Franson email
Published on December 10, 2009
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716 (http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716)
Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar....
Wait, scratch that.
Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new turn -- to comedy. But it's not the sort of routine that might play in the Catskills, circa 1950.
Instead, the D.C.-based Wilchins, who headed the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) through the first decade of the century and was lauded by Time magazine in 2001 as a civic innovator, is playing for laughs politically with her "one trans show," The MANgina Monologues.
Metro Weekly
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Photography by Todd Franson email
Published on December 10, 2009
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716 (http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=4716)
Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar....
Wait, scratch that.
Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new turn -- to comedy. But it's not the sort of routine that might play in the Catskills, circa 1950.
Instead, the D.C.-based Wilchins, who headed the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) through the first decade of the century and was lauded by Time magazine in 2001 as a civic innovator, is playing for laughs politically with her "one trans show," The MANgina Monologues.