![]() ![]() Kay Turner is an artist working across disciplines including writing, music, performance, and folklore. When Gertrude Met Susan is one of Kay Turner’s recent queer pedagogy projects that lift queer texts off the page into the common space of performance and audience engagement. Dress up! Wigs are de riguer: the pate or the pile with streak o’ gray. ![]() We seek vicious partisans-devoted Gertrude fans and undying Susan supporters. Then the audience votes to decide which of these lesbian icons writes with the hottest pen! The NYC production resulted in a tie San Fran queers must break it. Twenty Bay area Gertrude and Susan imitators square off on-stage for a hilarious competitive reading of Stein’s love notes to Alice and Sontag’s sexy journals to herself. This Lesbian Literary Love Fest takes the form of a cat fight! Join Brooklyn-based performer, writer, and professor Kay Turner as she emcees a showdown between Gertrude Stein and Susan Sontag to determine who’s hottest. ![]() MCCLA (after-party at The Lexington), 7:30pm ![]()
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