Sheroes

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Sheroes was a monthly limited-run art party series that brought together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and cultures of fandom surrounding the "League of Legendary Ladies": Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, Etta James, Marianne Faithfull, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, Dusty Springfield & Nina Simone.


Sheroes is presented by salonnière reeraw (Rea McNamara). Based in Toronto, the series curates specially commissioned performances, sounds, installations & visuals.


All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into fan culture and collaborative content creation.


Virtual Season — our culminating presentation of new and past Sheroes on/offline works & performances — is currently gearing into its first international reunion tour. We will be announcing soon tour dates. (If you would like to book a Sheroes event, please contact us.)


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Sheroica Esoterica Nadine Cohodas Princess Noire Excerpt

We kick off our “Sheroica EsotericaNadine Cohodas micro interview for Sheroes #12: Nina Simone with an exclusive excerpt from Nadine’s Princess Noire.

P.S. We have to prominently display the below credit line:

From PRINCESS NOIRE: THE TUMULTUOUS REIGN OF NINA SIMONE by Nadine Cohodas. Copyright © 2010 by Nadine Cohodas. Paperback edition published in 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press, by arrangement with Pantheon Books/Random House, Inc.  www.uncpress.unc.edu

OK NOW, LET’S HAVE A LONGREAD!

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Introducing A V. Special Sheroes Stan Edition: “Sheroica Esoterica”

Today is Sheroes #12: Nina Simone, and in honour of the High Priestess, we are going out w/a v. special, full-out Sheroes Stan edition.

Typically, we mark this occasion with our usual Sheroes Stan Q&A. (Chris A. Cummings, AKA Mantler, AKA Marker Starling, gave a super cerebral interview that you will DIG when we post later today.)

But! We are v. lucky to introduce to the fold author Nadine Cohodas for a special Sheroica Esoterica” micro interview.

Nadine is the author of several books about race, politics and music. Among her books are: And the Band Played DixieStrom Thurmond & The Politics of Southern ChangeSpinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess RecordsQueen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. Her most recent book, Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone, recently came out on paperback with UNC Press.

Throughout the day — as we post GIFs from our Batshit Genius GIF Posse show! — we’ll be posting an exclusive excerpt from Princess Noire, as well as “Sheroica Esoterica” footnotes from Nadine.

You can follow this micro interview throughout the day via our “Sheroica Esoterica” tag. 

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When you leave today do you know how long it takes to remove all this make-up? http://books.google.ca/books?id=J5n3IzjN_O0C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

When you leave today do you know how long it takes to remove all this make-up?

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