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FEMINA POTENS MONTHLY OPEN EYES, QUEER FILM NIGHT: ART XX MAGAZINE SOIREE!
On September 5, 2008 Femina Potens proudly hosts the a celebration of the brand new Art XX Magazine.
Art XX is a magazine dedicated to the promotion of women in the arts. The magazine showcases female,
queer, trans, outsider and non-white artists. Please join us to celebrate the upcoming arrival of
Art XX Magazine to the publishing world. The evening, starting at 7:00pm, will include an amazing line up
of Art XX artists, DJs, films, readings and preformances. Music compliments of Courtney Trouble aka
Diamond Beats and DJ Contrary; readings by Rhianon Argo, Francesca Austin Ochoa, Madison
Young, Charles Vasquez; film screening from Philipe Lonestar.
Advanced online ticket purchase is highly recommended through Brown Paper Ticketing: www.
BrownPaperTickets.com/event/42517
Open Eyes, Queer Film Night; Art XX Magazine Soiree Friday, September 5, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
$10–15 sliding scale admission for an evening of hot artists, film, music, dessert, wine, and discussion.
Visit feminapotens.com for information and advance ticket sales.
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Mission Statement: Art XX is an intervention, a fresh reaction to the often elitist world of art magazines that
continues to ignore female, queer, trans, outsider and non-white artists. Our goal is to improve the visibility
of these folks not only in magazine publications that quite often omit them in favor of more mainstream
artists, but to serve as a space of free artistic expression and a vehicle for social change. In our quest to
fill quite a large gap in the art publication business, we are attempting to create a magazine that
will inform our audience about new and/or revolutionary ideas in art, expose our readers to a variety of
mediums from writing to dance to painting, and allow the artists to speak for and about their work. Our
publication features articles, interviews and writing that is stimulating and thought provoking; and
we will challenge the viewer with artwork that is sometimes difficult, controversial and/or political – all in
the service of pushing boundaries and creating a dialog between the artists and the audience.
Diamond Beats is the solo music project of Courtney Trouble, a queer femme from San Francisco.
She uses beats, keys, and voxxx. Courtney Trouble began the underground porn site NoFauxxx.Com in
2003 and has kept the project alive ever since. She works with digital photography and film, as well as
video. She works both behind and in front of the camera, knowing that her unique point of view comes
from the excitement of both exhibitionism and voyeurism. Trouble also spends time playing guitar and
writing songs in her band, The Divine Feud, making porn with other queer artists, and searching for that
perfect part time art job.
Rhiannon Argo is a San Francisco based writer who will rough you up with her words. Her stories have
been published in Baby Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing, It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion,
Beauty and Personal Style, The Lowdown Highway Anthology, Transfer Magazine, and in dozens of her
own hand-made chapbooks. In 2007 she took her tales on the road for an entire month with the new wave
of Sister Spit and in 2008 was awarded a scholarship to the Lambda Literary Foundation's retreat for
emerging LGBTQ writers. Her short story Boots For Tula was recently made into a film by Chicago
filmmaker Malic Amaya. Her first novel The Creamsicle will be in late Spring 09.
Madison Young , your kinky girl next door, is making waves in feminism one orgasm at a time with her
award winning queer production company Madison Bound Productions and her award winning nationally
recognized art gallery and performance space Femina Potens(www.feminapotens.org). Femina Potens is
a sex positive art gallery and performance space dedicated to women and transgendered
artists. Madison has traveled the world with her sex positive performances, workshops, panels, art work
and readings from her upcoming memoir "The Tail of a Bondage Model". Madison 's writings have been
published in On Our Backs and Girlfriends Magazine and can also be found in the anthology "Baby
Remember My Name". Madison has been featured on MTV's LOGO channel program Out and
About, the documentary Lesbian Sex and Sexuality Porn Today : Pushing the Limits, and was featured in
Brian Alexander's recent book release "America Unzipped".
Francesca Austin Ochoa is a queer-identified Salvadoran American. She is a California native, now living
in Oakland. The undeniable lack of representation, visibility, and spaces for female and trans-identified
artists has motivated her to take action. Between her current work with Femina Potens Art Gallery, and Art
XX, and past participation in the CARAS Writers Project and the Che Cafe, she is enjoying a personal
crusade against the anglo-centric, male art world. She graduated from the University of California San
Diego in 2007 with a BA in Critical Gender Studies.
A recent addition to the bay area and a transplant from the Dominican Republic Chaz has been dwelling in
the Projects of the South Bronx and the newly gentrified parts of South Brooklyn. Multi media artist,
activist & educator Chaz spends most of his time writing and making art about Hearts that love blindly,
equality, social change and magic.
Philipe Lonestar, is an excitable and passionate white genderqueer of English and German descent
hailing from the South. Ze draws on zir experiences as a sex positive genderqueer, childhood abuse
survivor and white middle class suburban child. Philipe cares deeply about social justice issues and is
proud to work with the Bay Area Childcare Collective, Catalyst Project (www.collectiveliberation.org) and Y-
Step (www.y-step.org). Philipe is currently in graduate school learning how to be an art therapist with
the intention of serving transgender, genderqueer, queer, polyamorous, and social justice communities as
a healer. Philipeworks making films and documentary radio with young queer and trans people (www..
outloudradio.org). Zir films have screened all over the united states and europe in various queer,
feminist and trans film festivals as well as basements, living rooms and streetcorners... Philipe is a city-
dweller with a small town heart.
On September 5, 2008 Femina Potens proudly hosts the a celebration of the brand new Art XX Magazine.
Art XX is a magazine dedicated to the promotion of women in the arts. The magazine showcases female,
queer, trans, outsider and non-white artists. Please join us to celebrate the upcoming arrival of
Art XX Magazine to the publishing world. The evening, starting at 7:00pm, will include an amazing line up
of Art XX artists, DJs, films, readings and preformances. Music compliments of Courtney Trouble aka
Diamond Beats and DJ Contrary; readings by Rhianon Argo, Francesca Austin Ochoa, Madison
Young, Charles Vasquez; film screening from Philipe Lonestar.
Advanced online ticket purchase is highly recommended through Brown Paper Ticketing: www.
BrownPaperTickets.com/event/42517
Open Eyes, Queer Film Night; Art XX Magazine Soiree Friday, September 5, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
$10–15 sliding scale admission for an evening of hot artists, film, music, dessert, wine, and discussion.
Visit feminapotens.com for information and advance ticket sales.
-----------------------------------------------
Mission Statement: Art XX is an intervention, a fresh reaction to the often elitist world of art magazines that
continues to ignore female, queer, trans, outsider and non-white artists. Our goal is to improve the visibility
of these folks not only in magazine publications that quite often omit them in favor of more mainstream
artists, but to serve as a space of free artistic expression and a vehicle for social change. In our quest to
fill quite a large gap in the art publication business, we are attempting to create a magazine that
will inform our audience about new and/or revolutionary ideas in art, expose our readers to a variety of
mediums from writing to dance to painting, and allow the artists to speak for and about their work. Our
publication features articles, interviews and writing that is stimulating and thought provoking; and
we will challenge the viewer with artwork that is sometimes difficult, controversial and/or political – all in
the service of pushing boundaries and creating a dialog between the artists and the audience.
Diamond Beats is the solo music project of Courtney Trouble, a queer femme from San Francisco.
She uses beats, keys, and voxxx. Courtney Trouble began the underground porn site NoFauxxx.Com in
2003 and has kept the project alive ever since. She works with digital photography and film, as well as
video. She works both behind and in front of the camera, knowing that her unique point of view comes
from the excitement of both exhibitionism and voyeurism. Trouble also spends time playing guitar and
writing songs in her band, The Divine Feud, making porn with other queer artists, and searching for that
perfect part time art job.
Rhiannon Argo is a San Francisco based writer who will rough you up with her words. Her stories have
been published in Baby Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing, It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion,
Beauty and Personal Style, The Lowdown Highway Anthology, Transfer Magazine, and in dozens of her
own hand-made chapbooks. In 2007 she took her tales on the road for an entire month with the new wave
of Sister Spit and in 2008 was awarded a scholarship to the Lambda Literary Foundation's retreat for
emerging LGBTQ writers. Her short story Boots For Tula was recently made into a film by Chicago
filmmaker Malic Amaya. Her first novel The Creamsicle will be in late Spring 09.
Madison Young , your kinky girl next door, is making waves in feminism one orgasm at a time with her
award winning queer production company Madison Bound Productions and her award winning nationally
recognized art gallery and performance space Femina Potens(www.feminapotens.org). Femina Potens is
a sex positive art gallery and performance space dedicated to women and transgendered
artists. Madison has traveled the world with her sex positive performances, workshops, panels, art work
and readings from her upcoming memoir "The Tail of a Bondage Model". Madison 's writings have been
published in On Our Backs and Girlfriends Magazine and can also be found in the anthology "Baby
Remember My Name". Madison has been featured on MTV's LOGO channel program Out and
About, the documentary Lesbian Sex and Sexuality Porn Today : Pushing the Limits, and was featured in
Brian Alexander's recent book release "America Unzipped".
Francesca Austin Ochoa is a queer-identified Salvadoran American. She is a California native, now living
in Oakland. The undeniable lack of representation, visibility, and spaces for female and trans-identified
artists has motivated her to take action. Between her current work with Femina Potens Art Gallery, and Art
XX, and past participation in the CARAS Writers Project and the Che Cafe, she is enjoying a personal
crusade against the anglo-centric, male art world. She graduated from the University of California San
Diego in 2007 with a BA in Critical Gender Studies.
A recent addition to the bay area and a transplant from the Dominican Republic Chaz has been dwelling in
the Projects of the South Bronx and the newly gentrified parts of South Brooklyn. Multi media artist,
activist & educator Chaz spends most of his time writing and making art about Hearts that love blindly,
equality, social change and magic.
Philipe Lonestar, is an excitable and passionate white genderqueer of English and German descent
hailing from the South. Ze draws on zir experiences as a sex positive genderqueer, childhood abuse
survivor and white middle class suburban child. Philipe cares deeply about social justice issues and is
proud to work with the Bay Area Childcare Collective, Catalyst Project (www.collectiveliberation.org) and Y-
Step (www.y-step.org). Philipe is currently in graduate school learning how to be an art therapist with
the intention of serving transgender, genderqueer, queer, polyamorous, and social justice communities as
a healer. Philipeworks making films and documentary radio with young queer and trans people (www..
outloudradio.org). Zir films have screened all over the united states and europe in various queer,
feminist and trans film festivals as well as basements, living rooms and streetcorners... Philipe is a city-
dweller with a small town heart.
