Evento

Body Talk: Sexual Triumphs, Trials, and Revelations

"Body Talk: Sexual Triumphs, Trials, and Revelations" is a performance of true stories about sex, birth, mothering, menopause, mammograms, wax jobs, and what it means to be a woman. It will be performed at 7:30 - 8:45 p.m., *Friday Sept. 28 and Saturday Sept. 29, 2012 at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center in Bellingham, Wash. *Friday's performance will be ASL interpreted.

Directed by Karee Wardrop, five women will perform dramatic readings of monologues, created by Maria McLeod, based on in-depth interviews she conducted with women across the United States: a mammography technician, nun, an esthetician, new mother, transgendered woman, Buddhist feminist, and more. Their stories, told with sincerity, comedy and conviction, are about events that shape women's lives, from discovering one's sexual identity, to mastectomies, to menopause. (Adult content)
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Maria McLeod, who works as a freelance writer and documentarian, also is a WWU assistant professor of journalism. She is the author of three books of in-depth interviews and has worked as an oral historian for the Washington State Women's History Consortium, Washington Secretary of State's Oral History Program, the Washington State Dept. of Ecology, and on private contract. In addition, she publishes poetry and short fiction and has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes for creative works.