Along with reading Michelle Tea, donning an asymmetrical haircut, and attending a MEN concert, roller derby is basically an act in the queer rights of passage. If you’ve yet to earn this badge, Saturday is your day to do so. All four DC derby teams are lacing up their skates for the January bouts, including DC Demon Cats skater, Audrey Meshulam—aka Rachel MadHo. MadHo started training with the DC Roller Girls back in November of 2009. She joined up on a nervous whim right after a break up, and coincidently Whip It! had just come out. “The internets (especially the queer environs thereof) were very much abuzz with derby, and somehow I found out that DCRG (DC Roller Girls) training camp was about to start,” she explains. “I was craving more community, but I almost didn't go! I sincerely cannot picture what my life would be like if I hadn't taken...
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Have you ever wanted to get more involved with the local community? Or share your thoughts on a movie or an art exhibit with a large body of people? Do you consider yourself “in the know” on DC’s queer scene? Well. Then. Do we have news for you! Where The Girls Go is officially looking for writers—just like YOU—to contribute. We wanna hear what you think about queer movies, music, books, events, fashion. We want your rants and your humor. We want to know about the DC queers YOU think are cool, or scene-changing, or world-changing. You don’t need to be a trained writer, and you don’t need experience. All we want is a point of view and maybe a well-constructed sentence, but we’ll work with you on the rest. Most posts should be no more than 500 words. Interested? Know someone who might be? Email me at Smarloff@gmail.com WTGG is...
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I’m not one to be over-dramatic (barring the hissy fits I’ve been known to throw when someone disses Robyn…I mean, COME ON), but if the world does indeed come to an end this year, I might be able to accept my fate with grace, knowing that I had one last sweat-soaked liquor-lubricated grind-fest with a dance floor full of D.C.’s coolest queers. Three hundred of you took over DC9 with a vengeance, shaking your collective booty to the grooves of reliably rad DJs Alex DB and Coach Vee until the wee hours of Martin Luther King Day morning. What else did you do? You got your face painted. You played Twister. You twirled. You canoodled. You broke it down. You flirted. You made ambiguous hand gestures. You showed off your style. You SHAVED OUR LOGO INTO YOUR HEAD. In short, you rocked. Want to see more photos? Check 'em out...
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by Mandy Lineweber first-time contributor You’ve probably heard by now that the National Portrait Gallery has had an exhibit about our dear friend Gertrude Stein up all this fall. Maybe you’ve gotten yourself over to see it, maybe you haven’t. Either way, here’s your fair warning that this weekend is your last chance to go to the NPG and visit Gertrude, her wife, Alice B. Toklas, and their awesome dogs. The exhibit's last day is Sunday, January 22. It’s worth your time to visit them in person, too: There are lots of cool photographs, paintings, and sculptures that are much more moving in person than they are online. The exhibit, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, doesn’t rank any single aspect of Stein’s life above another. Instead, it emphasizes diversity by exploring five major themes of her life. It’s a very realistic way to depict the life of a woman who has...
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How is it that four-day workweeks sometimes feel longer? Need a drink? Or some dancing? Maybe even an explosion of sequins and glitter? If you said yes—and obviously you did—to all the above, head to DC9 this Saturday. Local queer band, Glitterlust (aka Mikey Torres-vocals/live synth, Liz Wooley-guitar, and Chris Roudiez-live bass guitar) will be putting on the show of the weekend along with opening act, J Street. Torres describes their sound as “constantly evolving.” In fact, the band is in the process of writing a new album that delves deeper into their synthpop, chiptune and 8-bit music sound. “I think, at its core, our music is best described as dance-rock,” says Torres. “With the new album I really want to make people move so there's more of a pop sensibility about it. ‘Pop’ is sort of a dirty word in indie music these days but there are a lot...
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It’s Monday, January 16th and your dance floor moves or wall flower allure secured the attention of THAT GIRL. The one you spotted the minute she walked into WTGG’s DC9 dirty dancing apocalyptic extravaganza. You made eyes, made contact, and got her number. Let’s say you’ve been single for a hot minute, and having thoroughly enjoyed yourself you’re ready to put your tender heart through the blender again. Or perhaps you just want to look that way. Whatever, who am I to question your motives (you sleazy player you). Now if you are extra slick (and I am not), you've already discussed a place you are dying to go during the contact information gaining phase of the operation. But let's say you haven't. FUCK. Where are you going to go?! Here's our gift to you dear reader, the WTGG winter date guide. We've stressed out so you don't have to...
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Humility is a virtue. Sometimes, a pat on the back is best taken with nothing more than a bashful smile and nod. But on the rare occasion that, oh, I don't know, our Cuntfessions page gets an Editor's Choice Award for "Best Place to Pick Up Chicks" in the Brightest Young Gays Ponies Choice Awards, a grrl needs to haul out the Twister mat and break it down on the dance floor with 200+ queers and their besties. In case you haven't been stalking our Facebook page with proper ardor: we're hosting the official afterparty for the HRC's annual women's bash on Sunday, January 15. In honor of the impending apocalypse, we're calling it Dancin' Till The World Ends , we're snagging the SHE.REX DJs, and it's going to be a smashing good time. If you don't want to pay the $5 cover, enter our... Cuntfession Contest! Send your forbidden crush,...
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It’s 2012! In fact we’re rounding down the first week of January and all of us at Where The Girls Go are so excited about what we and DC has in store for YOU GUYS over the course of the next few months. Just a few highlights of what’s to come: Today (January 7) there are not one but two queer lady bands touring the east coast right now and they’re stopping by the infamous Phase 1 tonight. Allison Weiss and Mitten were both Phasefest favorites of the past year. You don’t want to miss this. Show starts at 8, and CiCi did a great Q&A with one miss Weiss to get you in the mood. Two great things are happening NEXT Friday: 1) it’s Friday. The 13th! Quite possibly my favorite unofficial holiday. 2) It’s the District’s best queer girl dance party: She.Rex. It’s free and it consistently has...
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The phrase “female singer-songwriter” has been longhand for “queer chick” ever since the demise of the world’s very first U-Haul partnership left some poor grrl alone in an English basement with nothing but a six-string and a Moleskine to ease her pain. Brooklyn-based guitarist Allison Weiss might fit the phrase, but she shatters the breathy, barf-worthy mold of cutesy navel-gazing that’s shaped so many of her weedier peers. Weiss’s tough-as-nails-yet-soft-as-a-Koosh brand of ache–steeped rock n’ roll is more Saves the Day than Brandi Carlile, and her adorably relatable stage presence held the crowd’s doting attention at Phasefest 2011. Weiss brings her band back to Phase 1 this Saturday, January 7 at 8 p.m. alongside electro-pop duo Mitten. Mitten’s Maia Macdonald and Joanna Katcher, fellow Brooklynites, wrote their first album Postal Service-style, mailing tracks back and forth between two different cities. The product of their experiment in long distance musical collaboration,...
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It’s 2012. A leap year. The Year of the Dragon. And, quite possibly (suck it, NASA), the last year of our lives. With the end of the world as we know it creeping ever closer and the 2012 election breathing its vaporous patriarchy down our necks, now is a better time than ever to make—and keep—one of those New Year’s resolutions my more responsible friends are always talking about. The federal government puts out a rundown of the country’s alleged most popular resolutions each year (Number one on the list? “Drink less alcohol.” Thanks, Mom.), but we at WTGG thought we could do a slightly less fascist and patronizing job of it. Here are our staff’s goals for 2012. What are yours? Leave us some ideas in the comment section or our Facebook page! 1. Dance more, gossip less. 2. Talk to someone intimidatingly cute. 3. Floss. 4. Survive the impending apocalypse....
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