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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Nadine Cohodas: “Horace Ott and his writing partners gave this song to Nina - though the Animals took it away from her, if you will. Her version version - without that group’s bluesy muscle - has its own searing power.”

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Nadine Cohodas: “Nina’s meditation on how black women found their place in a world not of their own making. ‘I had to go into all kinds of bags to be able to compose it,’ is what she said before performing the song at the 1967 Newport Jazz Festival, a couple of years after she wrote it.”

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Sheroica Esoterica Nadine Cohodas Princess Noire Excerpt

We kick off our “Sheroica Esoterica” Nadine 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 Dixie; Strom Thurmond & The Politics of Southern Change; Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records; Queen: 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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