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SISTER SPIT presents ERIN MARKEY
I love Erin Markey so much, and if you don’t believe it read this essay I wrote about her for the San Francisco Film Society. I first checked her out when she traveled on the Sex Workers’ Art Show...
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SISTER SPIT presents CASSIE J SNEIDER
Cassie J Sneider loves rock n roll. Cassie J Sneider loves pugs, especially her own, named ‘Pug’, a dog who has been known to write letters to advice columnists. Cassie J Sneider loves to thrift, and...
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SISTER SPIT presents KIT YAN
Sister Spit started in the 90s as a spoken word/poetry roadshow. Our first tour coincided with the birth of the poetry slam, and many of our contacts and promoters across the US were local slam poets...
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SISTER SPIT presents JUSTIN V. BOND
One oddly balmy San Francisco night somewhere in the year 1993 I was walking down 16th Street past what is now the Kilowatt, a dive bar where hooligans swill beer that used to be a magical...
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THE SISTER SPIT VAN IS TOTALLY AS FUN AS YOU THINK IT WOULD BE.
“I was like, fuck that.” – Brontez Purnell on serving sweet tea to Confederate Civil War reenactors while working at a BBQ in Alabama “If you’re going to be a writer or...
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“WE ARE ALL GRIMY BITCHES.”
Hi you guys, I’m so tired. Just watching Dorothy Allison kill the end of our show tonight dead – I mean she was like howling and emoting and just fucking giving the audience everything in a way you...
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I GOT 101 DALMATIONS AND A BITCH AIN’T ONE
Hey! Our Road Manager Jerry Lee ran out to get some dollars in Tucson and wound up falling into Toxic Ranch Records and finding a Seven Year Bitch 45! Look at all that punk happiness on his face. I...
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Hello from AMERICA
Hey you guys! Doesn’t Jerry Lee look scary rest stop hot in the new America glasses he picked up in Iowa City this morning? We were told to get coffee at the little coffee bar inside White Rabbit, a...
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YOU CAN HEAL YOUR VAN
Here’s our trusty Merch girl, Cassie J Sneider, proudly hawking our wares in Toronto! Look at all that great stuff! Our Merch Table on this tour has been referred to as the Sister Spit Skymall; also...
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And then we got kicked out of a mall.
You should know before I even began that Towson, Maryland is where John Waters set his film Serial Mom, about a suburban mother who cracks and starts slaying everyone in her Real Housewifes-esque...
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Amanda Verwey’s ART Monday #6: Cristy C. Road!
Hello! And welcome to my Better-Late-Than-Never ART Monday. This week I’m so excited to recommend Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road. Spit and Passion is a graphic coming out memoir focusing on...
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Amanda Verwey’s ART Monday #7: C U This Weekend!
There are so many fun things happening this weekend! Follow my lead: On FRIDAY I’m going to see Sister Spit alum Brontez Purnell’s new performance THE EPISODES with Anthony R. Lucas and Sophia Wang at...
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TextaQueen interviewed by Essence Harden
Oakland academic Essence Harden interviews Sister Spit 2013 artist TextaQueen. Can you tell us about Texta and your amazing superhero aesthetic? ‘Texta’ means felt-tip marker in Australia and it’s...
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BRONTEZ PURNELL INTERVIEWED BY ESSENCE HARDEN
Oakland academic Essence Harden interviews RADAR SPECTACLE performer BRONTEZ PURNELL. Brontez performing with Brontez Purnell Dance Company Tell us about you’re recent work “New Diaspora” and “Other...
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#FBF: A PAGE FROM THE SISTER SPIT 1997 DIARY
In honor of the SISTER SPIT 2014 FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN we’ve dug deep into the Sister Spit archives for some must-see-gems from the vault. So today, for your #FBF viewing pleasure, I present DAY 33 of...
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Sister Spit 1997 Tour Diary Flashback #2!
In honor of the SISTER SPIT 2014 FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN, I present another offering from the 1997 Sister Spit Tour Diary! This entry was written from a CYBER CAFE by one of the Valencia directors...
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