Mad Kate

About me:

There will never be enough time to explore all the different women I would like to be. But in each of these personas I inhabit, I find that the through line has been my intellectual and artistic interest in the politics of borders--both between bodies and within bodies. This pursuit has manifested itself in many forms--whether it be interviewing women who live in rural farming cooperatives in Nicaragua and Haiti; advocacy of immigrants and political asylum seekers in the Bay Area; teaching creative writing inside the San Francisco Women's Jail; sex/work/performance/art and erotic dance; critical and creative writing; or diving off the stage into a crowd of rowdy pogo punks while singing with my band.

I'm a dancer writer singer performance artist::My alter ego is Alfabus:: My partnerhusbandbestfriendmuseinspiration is JuanOfaKind. Together with Sylvia Pujol we run the store and performance space Let it Bleed. Juan and I are now featured on Blitz Kids!!.Check out my punk-cabaret band, the Kamikaze Queens. Our new album Voluptuous Panic! was released on CD in April 2009 on Sounds of Subterrania Records.

Lately I've been enjoying dancing and performing with the Swiss/German band Bonaparte ... and later this summer I'm proud to be part of the Queer X Team, an international group of queer performance artists.

Check out the film I worked on with Julia Ostertag, Saila, which won best feature at the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival. ..

And ... view the trailer of Ivan Arrenaga's film Berlin Manners, featuring Clea Cutthroat, Michelle Carr, Tallulah Freeway and Mad Kate



... And the trailer for Saila
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