NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vaginal Davis

Clarence Dennis Williams, also known as Vaginal Davis or her dominatrix-alter-ego Veronika V'Intrest, (born February 23, 1969) is a punk rock drag queen and an avant-garde performance artist. She has performed with such artists as Lisa Crystal Carver, Margaret Cho, and Beck, and has collaborated with underground photographers/film makers Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro, and with the performance artist Ron Athey. She has more recently collaborated with the "Cheap" collective in Berlin, Germany. Davis's name is an homage to the radical black feminist Angela Davis. Journalist and musician Craig Lee bestowed the middle name Creme, but Davis prefers that people not use the name Vaginal Creme Davis. Image File history File links Vaginal_Davis_record. ... Image File history File links Vaginal_Davis_record. ... A dominatrix (from the Latin dominatrix, meaning a female ruler or mistress) or mistress is a woman who takes the dominant role in bondage and discipline, domination and submission or sado-masochistic sexual practices, which are commonly abbreviated as BDSM. The male equivalent is master. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Drag queens Luc DArcy and Jerry Cyr and friend at Montreals 2003 Divers/CitÃ© pride parade. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... Lisa Crystal Carvers (AKA Lisa Suckdog) writing in Rollerderby, made her one of the most well known writers of the zine boom in the early 90s, along with scribes like Pagan Kennedy. ... Margaret Cho, with Prairie Dawn of Sesame Street Margaret Cho (born Moran Cho on December 5, 1968 in San Francisco, California) is a Korean-American comedian and actress. ... Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known by his simple stage name of Beck. ... Bruce LaBruce (born 3 January 1964) is a Canadian writer, film-maker, and photographer based in Toronto. ... Rick Castro (July 20, 1958) is an American photographer, motion picture director and stylist whose work focuses on bondage and sado-masochistic sex. ... Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American extreme performance artist. ... Angela Davis in the 1970s Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an African American communist organizer and philosopher who was associated with the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Communist Party of the United States of America. ...

Davis has a noteworthy musical career, and is associated with the formation of the queercore movement. One of her first bands was Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME), co-founded with Glen Meadmore, who recorded their first single for independent record label Amoeba Records. PME went on to record the CD The White To Be Angry with producer Steve Albini. Davis is also a founding member of Cholita with Alice Bag (of seminal 1970s punk band The Bags). Davis and Bags also worked together in The Afro Sisters. More recently, as a part of her collaboration with the Cheap experimental theater collective in Berlin, Davis formed a punk band called Ruth Fischer (Fischer was a leader in the German Communist Party). Queercore is a cultural and social movement which arose during the early-to-mid 1980s. ... Glen Meadmore is a Canadian musician, actor and performance artist currently residing in Los Angeles. ... An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ... Steve Albini, center, upside down, with Shellac at the Brandenburg Gate Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Pasadena, California) is an influential singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The Bags were one of the first generation of punk rock bands to emerge out of Los Angeles. ... Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the 20th century as a reaction against the then-dominant conventions governing the writing and production of drama, and against naturalism in particular. ... For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... Advertisement of the German Communist Party, Those who take nothing from the rich can give nothing to the poor. ...

In her home town of Los Angeles, Davis is also known for hosting Club Sucker (1994-1999), and Bricktops (2003-2005) - the latter was inspired by Bricktop, one of the more fascinating vaudevillian figures of the 1920s and 30s. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,290. ... Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop (August 14, 1894 â€” January 31, 1983) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome. ... Vaudeville is a style of theater, also known as variety, which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ...

Davis has authored a number of underground films, including The White to Be Angry (1999), Designy Living (1994) and Three Faces of Women (1994), and appears in queer underground video classics such as Super 8 1/2 (Bruce LaBruce, 1994) and Hustler White (Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, 1998) and Rosa von Praunheim's Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? (1999). The first use of the term underground film occurs in a 1957 essay by American film critic Manny Farber, Underground Films. ... The word queer has traditionally meant strange or unusual, but it is also currently often used in reference to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex communities. ... Super 8 1/2 is a 1993 drama film written directed by Bruce La Bruce. ... Bruce LaBruce (born 3 January 1964) is a Canadian writer, film-maker, and photographer based in Toronto. ... Hustler White is a 1996 film by Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro. ... Bruce LaBruce (born 3 January 1964) is a Canadian writer, film-maker, and photographer based in Toronto. ... Rick Castro (July 20, 1958) is an American photographer, motion picture director and stylist whose work focuses on bondage and sado-masochistic sex. ... Rosa von Praunheim (* November 25, 1942 in Riga, Latvia; name of birth Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky) is a German film director. ...

Vaginal Davis is the editor of the noted zines Fertile La Toyah Jackson Magazine and Shrimp. Aside from her own zines, her writing (somewhere between casual philosophy and gossip) has appeared in many publications, including Glue (in which she had a gossip column), Ben Is Dead Magazine, the seminal queercore zine J.D.s, and the LA Weekly. One of her stories was anthologized in The Best American Erotica of 2003, edited by Susie Bright. A zineâ€”an abbreviation of the word magazineâ€”is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... J.D.s is a queer punk zine founded in Toronto by G.B. Jones and co-published with Bruce LaBruce, that ran for eight issues from 1985 to 1991. ... L.A. Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called alternative weekly) in Los Angeles, California. ... Susie Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. ...

She has recently claimed that Condoleezza Rice is her first cousin.[1] Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. ...

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Rosa von Praunheim (* November 25, 1942 in Riga, Latvia; name of birth Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky) is a German film director. ... Rick Castro (July 20, 1958) is an American photographer, motion picture director and stylist whose work focuses on bondage and sado-masochistic sex. ... Bruce LaBruce (born 3 January 1964) is a Canadian writer, film-maker, and photographer based in Toronto. ... Macondray Lane, recast in the series as the fictional Barbary Lane Tales of the City is a series of six books, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, written by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin. ...

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