Queering the Tarot: Nine of Wands
After a rough November for so many of us in the LGBTQ+ community, it is comforting and re-inspiring to me to be writing about the Nine of Wands today, and The post Queering the Tarot: Nine of Wands...
View ArticleUprising Theatre Company’s Sex in the Dark explores sex, bodies, and...
Communication, identity, and body image are at the root of a lovely play that is much more about the darkness we let interfere with healthy sexual experiences than the actual The post Uprising Theatre...
View ArticleA Twin Cities’ Queertastic Holiday Gift Guide
In spite of my best efforts, the holiday spirit usually takes over my normal level-headed brain around Thanksgiving and refuses to loosen its grip until some time after my birthday The post A Twin...
View ArticleTwin Cities Queertastic Holiday Art Events Roundup
Every year around this time, about a hundred different interpretations of A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker hit the stage, not to mention an endless list of concerts and other The post Twin Cities...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Denzel Belin
Triple threats always steal a part of my heart when it comes to the arts, and it doesn’t have to be the traditional actor-dancer-singer combo that slays me. Today, for The post Spotlight on the Arts:...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: 10 of Wands
How appropriate that I am writing about the 10 of Wands on the last day of 2016, a year that has been overwhelming and exhausting regardless of where you land on the political or social spectrum. The...
View ArticleBlackness Be Lit: An Epic Poetry Showcase
While January events in the Twin Cities are a little scarce, the ones that do exist are guaranteed to pull you out of the winter doldrums and get you warmed up, heated up, and on fire for art and...
View ArticleExposition: Queer Performance and Conversation Offers All-Star Lineup For One...
If you’re looking to kick off your February with top notch local queer entertainment, look no further than the Marcel Michelle Obama curated Exposition on February 1st. Billed as a night of queer...
View ArticleTwenty Percent Theatre’s The Pink Unicorn brings intimacy, humor
In 2015, 20% Theatre Company’s produced The Pink Unicorn by Elise Forier Edie on a limited run basis. It’s a small, intimate show with a ton of wit and heart about a mom trying to come to terms with...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Page of Wands
By popular request, this series will take an in depth look at the court cards individually, instead of in a group or as pairs which was my original concept. These are problem cards for a lot of people...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Jay Simmons
I first met Jay Simmons (he/him/his) several years ago when I cast him as several different genders and roles in a production of QUEER! For Gadfly Theatre Productions. It’s a hard show, especially when...
View ArticleBlackQueerInk Ushers In New Era at Patrick’s Cabaret
Last month I had the honor of learning about Keno Evol and Black Table Arts, and I got to highlight black queer poets that Evol was showcasing as part of Black Table Arts’ Blackness Be Lit. I was...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Lisa Marie Brimmer
There are a handful of artists in the city who’s talent and presence still intimidate me, people who I’m dying to work with but even after a handful of introductions can’t seem to find my land legs...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Knight of Wands
If I had to sum up the entire sight of Wands into one card, this is the rare suit where it wouldn’t be the King, Queen, or even Ace. Sure those cards have their own importance and symbols of intense...
View ArticleGadfly Theatre to debut “And Then They fell”
The queer and feminist theatre company, Gadfly Theatre Productions, will debut And Then They Fell in mid-march. And Then They Fell by Tira Palmquist is a look at youth homelessness, sexual abuse, and...
View ArticleThe Big Fat Comedy Hour debuts at Lush
Sarah McPeck is a local lesbian comedian who’s already made quite a name for herself here in the Twin Cities (and has, in fact, been featured in The Column’s Spotlight on the Arts), but she’s as well...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Hieu Minh Nguyen
There are poets who address deeply personal issues in a way that crawls under your skin and sticks with you, in a way that even if you can’t relate to the story they’re recounting or the experience at...
View ArticleQueering the Queen of Wands
Queering the Queens and Kings of any suit gets a little bit tricky, and is in fact where a lot of students get caught up on their own path to learning tarot. The Tarot, based on card order and the...
View Article‘Lightning Rod’ Shocks and Thrills Starting Friday
“An artist is a lightning rod, and has a responsibility to catch that electricity in the air…to listen to the world and provide opportunities for reflection, perspective, catharsis, resistance. This is...
View ArticleThey/Them Project celebrates, demystifies non-binary gender through...
There have been some powerful photography series’ in the LGBTQ+ arts community over the last couple of years that beautifully capture an individual’s identity and struggle coming into that identity in...
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