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.)
When she’s happy, her writing is in a lovely flowing cursive; when depressed, a sloppy chicken-scratch. And when her mania has reached a critical mass, she defaults to large printed letters, virtual billboards that scream from the page.
— ‘I can’t reach them unless I turn myself inside out’: The Writings of Nina Simone
| tags:Must take sleeping pills to sleep + yellow pills to go onstage,” she wrote in July 1964, referring to Valium. “Terribly tired and realize no one can help me—I am utterly miserable, completely, miserably, frighteningly alone.| 1 note | tags:
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ALONG WITH MANY AMAZING ACTS ALL WEEKEND http://www.electric-eclectics.com/
Can we just gloat about the fact that THREE past/present/future Sheroes/Virtual Season performers are involved with this?
(Yes, we’re talking about our Sheroes #12: Nina Simone co-headliner TENDERNESS, Sheroes #7: Etta James headliner/Virtual Season co-headliner LIDO PIMIENTA & Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull co-headliner U.S. GIRLS.
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| 66 notes | tags:NINA SIMONE (photo by Mario Algaze)
I ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money, Ain't got no clothes
Ain't got no perfume, Ain't got no skirts
Ain't got no sweaters, Ain't got no smokes
Ain't got no god.
Ain't got no father, Ain't got no mother
Ain't got no sisters, i've got one brother
Ain't got no land, Ain't got no country
Ain't got no freedom, Ain't got no god,
Ain't got no mind,
Ain't got no earth, Ain't got no students
Ain't got no father, Ain't got no mother
Ain't got no sweets, Ain't got no ticket
Ain't got no token, Ain't got no mind
Ain't got no land.
But there is something i've got,
there is something i've got,
there is something i've got,
nobody can take it away...
Got my hair on my head
Got my brains, Got my ears
Got my eyes, Got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile
I got my tongue, Got my chin
Got my neck, Got my boobies
Got my heart, Got my soul
Got my back, I got my sex
I got my arms, my hands, my fingers,
my legs, my feet, my toes,
and my liver, got my blood..
I got life, I've got laughs, I've got headaches,
and toothaches and bad times too like you ...
Got my hair on my head
Got my brains, Got my ears
Got my eyes, Got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile
I got my tongue, Got my chin
Got my neck, Got my boobies
Got my heart, Got my soul
Got my back, I got my sex
...Ain't Got No/I Got Life (click on the pic!)
