Lisa Foad is an unapologetic mouthy mess of a girl who carries fistfuls of revolution between her lips. Heartwrecker extraordinaire. She has been featured in various publications including 'Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws' (McGilligan), Xtra! and the Women's Post. She has done live performances, readings at events ranging from Powerfemme to Girls Gone Wild as well as organizing the night Chicks-a-go-go in Toronto. Lisa's got a penchant for all things bruised, brave and bold.
Miss Hadassah Hill is an expatriate secret agent, goofball, bicyclist, and sometime femme fatale. She has been entertaining crowds for ten years, and has recently performed her version of spoken word-wrangling at Mayworks, Pussy Pen, Paper Airplane, We Still Got Words, and High Femme Friday. Along with real-time poetry, she applies herself to formal writing and has been published in the recent Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws and Without A Net. She has put out three zines, six chapbooks, and one novella, Everything I Ever Wanted to Know I Never Learned.
She choreographs and acts in vaudeville-style mini-theatre, as can be witnessed at Buddies in Bad Times theatre, and on various night-time streets. She is a high femme starlet, and can be found being both sweet and bossy in Pornograflix , and as an Aslan Leather model. Hadassah is also a high-stylin' clothing and textile designer: her line is Dirty Boots Design, and she works primarily in reconstructing/recycling vintage clothing, embroidery, and costuming.
She has composed an EP of her spoken word, and released a CD, Bad Girl's Belief System in April 2005. Email macho_femme@hotmail.com for info, or check out www.hadassahsbizzare.com .
Zoe Whittall is a writer and performer who grew up on a sheep farm in South Durham, Quebec. After moving to Montreal at 19, she founded the successful performance series Girlspit, recently chronicled in the book Impure, Reinventing the Word: The theory, practice, and oral history of spoken word in Montreal. (Connundrum Press)
At 25, she published her first book of poetry called The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan, 2001).
Most recently, she is the editor of the short fiction anthology Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan, 2003) which the Globe and Mail called "a who's-who of edgy Can-Lit".
Her work is forthcoming in Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. (Nightwood Editions, 2004). Her fiction has appeared in the anthologies Ribsauce (Vehicule), Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity (Arsenal Pulp), Girls Who Bite Back (Sumach) and Bent (Women's Press).
Zoe has recently been invited to appear at the Vancouver International Writer's Festival in October, 2004. She will be joining authors Michael V. Smith, Billeh Nickerson and Mariko Tamaki as part of a reading series called Tough Fluff which will tour eastern and western Canadian cities in 2005.
Zoe was a guest reader with 2002 Giller nominee Lisa Moore, at the launch of her book Open (House of Anansi) in the spring of 2002. In 2001, she was a guest reader with author Eileen Myles (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You), and with the Wasted Motel Tour with Michelle Tea (Chelsea Whistle, Valencia) and Shar Rednour (Femme's Guide to the Universe) in New York.
In Toronto, she has performed at Second City, the Red Spot, the IV Lounge, and for the following performance events: Nightwood Theatre's 2003 Hysteria Festival of Women, The Five Minute Feminist Cabaret at the Bluma L'Apelle Theatre, Cheap Queers, Rebel Girl, The Mayworks Festival of Labor and Art, the Power Femme Cabaret and Strange Sisters from 1999-2003.
She currently lives in Toronto where she is columnist for Kiss Machine and a freelance arts reviewer for a variety of Canadian magazines. She is finishing up a collection of short stories entitled Bottle Rocket Hearts.
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk is a Toronto/Montreal writer, performer, activist, supervillian, and princess.
She has been published in the Lammy award winning Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 (Cleis Press), Geeks Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan), Skin Deep 2 (Alyson) and Fireweed Feminist Quarterly; as well as magazines On Our Backs, Velvet Park, and HOUR; and on www.ssspread.com. She has work forthcoming in Clamor (magazine), No Such Thing: Jewish Women of Mixed Families (Reyna's Press), Raking the Moon (FMP Collective), ConStellation (magazine), Best of Best Lesbian Erotica 2 (Cleis), www.pervgrrl.org, and Bound in Struggle (BDSM/activism zine.) She and her alter-ego write a regular sex/humour column 'Lydia Lane is Not My Name' for Trade: Queer Things Magazine, which can be found in print or online at www.tradequeerthings.com.
Tara-Michelle was half of the spokenword-cello-sex-noise+politix project 'Black Licorice Theory' (BLT) and has performed solo and with BLT at a range of events including: Ladyfest Toronto, Mayworks Festival of Working People in the Arts, Toronto Small Press Bookfair and Attack of the Killer Spoken Word. She organized and promoted the events Rebel Girl I and II, and the Blue Ball: a reject's prom party. She has MC'd various events (most recently the Montreal launch of 'Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws' and Sini Anderson's 'opening band' tour with Robo Sapien.) Her play 'Why: a drunken comedy in one act" had a staged reading at the Rhubarb! theatre festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Recently her work has been mentioned in various publications and reviews including Bust Magazine, Broken Pencil Magazine, amazon.com and butchdykeboy.com. As a child she was a pagent queen, a model for: Canadian Tire lifejackets, President's Choice muffins, a 'Queen of Hearts' costume from BiWay and the cover girl for a sweater pattern book. She was also a Rangerette (a troupe of girls in fringed leotards and cowboy hats with colour coordinated pom-poms doing the 'the dinosaur' in suburban Florida.)
In 2002 Tara-Michelle was awarded a Toronto Arts Council grant for Emerging Writers to complete her first book of poetry which she is currently putting the final touches on. She is also editing an anthology about low/no budget, D.I.Y and long-term travel called 'Dirt Road: transient tales.' Tara-Michelle is interested in double letters, heavy metal, red leather, big breakfasts, mania, truth and dare; together or separately.
Photos:
of Lisa, Hadassah, Zoe: Suzy Malik--see www.suzymalik.com
of Tara: Josh Schwebel
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