City of Today for Feminine Urbanism: Doble Quinceanera Performance 2/18/2012

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Open Letter to Comrades:

Dear Friends, I'm coming out for my 30th Birthday!

While on a date earlier this Summer, with a rather handsome, intelligent, financier; I was confronted (after I mistakenly revealed my age) by his exclamation "Wow! The big 3-0! You're going to expire soon!".  Although I had considered this cultural crisis we're experiencing before, I had never personally tasted milk that sour.  Needless to say, I quickly realized I should be dating different kinds of people, but I caught myself momentarily considering implants.  However, I realized celebrations last longer in our memories than silicone.  So, in response to this recent appauling commodification of women's sagging mortality (and our obsession with the perfect body), I will instead Come Out for my 30th birthday.  Rather than hide behind the onslaught of ritual/bodily commodification, wrinkles and the impending doom of planned obselecense when I hit 40, I will bask momentarily in the cultural customs that formed my personality, and the friends/family who make me who I am.  After all, I am a ghettofabulous redneck spic, and I take pride in my variegated history, no matter how alienating it may be to myself and others. That is why I love New York City, and all its diverse inhabitants- residents or aliens.  If our cultural customs make us who we are, then what better way to celebrate than with a Quinceanera /Southern Bell Debutante Ball? Luckily, I have the support of pop-culture who shares my viewpoint. February snow could use a little booty shaking. 

Please join me on Saturday, February 18, 2012 for a night of sensory exploits in the form of a doble Quince 15+15=30 :

Quinceanera Southern Debutante Ball Saturday February 18, 2012

@ Cubana Social 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (L Train to Bedford)  Google Map

Featuring: Thousand Islands DJs, La Flor de Toaloche (female mariachi band), Comida Cubana  The Dukes of Brooklyn

My brother, Walter Meyer on the timbales, congas accompanying Lambastic & BlanksNYC DJs 

*Special Guests Jen & Paul Outlaw

Get Inspired! 

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(Generational Response) 

My grandmother, a witty writer and educator, also has alzheimers. While her geographical and memorial distance widens our generational void, she manages to bridge 2 states of mind with lambastic questions. 

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Ladies in Waiting (After Soulmate)

After Christina Freeman's "Soulmate" performance from 2009, I've collaborated with her exchange project to transform a well-worn wedding dress into a tag station for racist/chauvinist banter.  What is Citizenship? Reclaiming the wasted refuse of contemporary culture for celebratory criticism. 

  During the my 30th Birthday/ Doble Quinceanera, I announced my engagement to NYC.  The celebration was marked by guests in attendance who answered their support  by writing the most flagrant racist, chauvenist insults they had ever heard directly onto my wedding dress.  We then danced the night away to sign the occasion into memory.