Wendy Delorme
Wendy Delorme | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 28, 1979 |
| Pen name | Wendy Babybitch, Klaus Engel |
| Occupation | author, translator, actor, performance artiest |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Genres | sex, BDSM |
| Literary movement | sex-positive |
Wendy Delorme, born July 28, 1979[1] is a woman of letters, performance artist,[2] actress, and LGBT activist.[3]
As a performance artist, she goes by the stage names Wendy Babybitch and Klaus Engel, as part of the neo-burlesque theater groups The Kisses Cause Trouble, The Drag King Fem Show, the Cabaret des Filles de Joie and the Queer X Show.[4]
Going under the rubrique of performeuse in her one-woman shows near the racy Pigalle section of Paris, Delorme performs a hyper-exaggerated form of "femininity" as a male drag performer might, which harkens back to theoretical constructs such as "doing gender" or "gender performance" of Judith Butler.[5]
About her performances, Delorme said, "In the morning or in the evening, in my bathroom, I reinvent myself, I become a woman, and that is not biological, it is more a question of belief.[6]
Works
- Pervers & Safe : petit guide de prévention pour le sexe BDSM, (Perverse and Safe: a small preventive guide for BDSM) Tabou, 2006.
- Quatrième génération, (Fourth Generation) Grasset, novel, 2007.
- Insurrection ! En territoire sexuel, (Insurrection! In Sexual Territory) Au Diable Vauvert, essay, 2009[7] · [8] · .[9]
- (dir.) In-soumises : contes cruels au féminin, avec Gala Fur, (Unsubmissive: Cruel Stories, a la feminine) La Musardine, 2012.
- La Mère, la sainte et la putain, (Mothers, Saints, and Whores) Au Diable Vauvert, novel, 2012.
- The final girl, experimental fiction, by Todd Verow, 2010.
Translations
- Tout savoir sur la fellation (The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio) de Violet Blue, translated with Murielle Kosman, éditions Tabou, 2007.
- Le Petit guide de la sexualité épanouie (The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written) de Cathy Winks et Anne Semans, trans. with Sandrine Bodet, éditions Tabou, 2009.
- Déséquilibres synthétiques (Will Work for Drugs) by Lydia Lunch, trans. with Virginie Despentes, Au Diable Vauvert, 2010.
Filmography
- Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts, A Queer X Show at IMDb, documentary by her and Émilie Jouvet, 2010.
- Les travailleu(r)ses du sexe at IMDb [The Sex Workers], 2009. documentary about her
- Louis(e) de Ville, portrait d'une bad girl at IMDb 2012. documentary about her
- Ce soir (ou jamais!) at IMDb [Tonight (or Never!)] 2007. documentary about her
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Notice d'autorité personne : Wendy Delorme, BnF, accessed 2012-06-15 (in French)
- ^ Julie Girard, « Wendy Delorme : "C'est mes tripes et je tricote avec" », poptronics.fr, August 3, 2009 (in French)
- ^ Marie-Claude Martin, « Tant de femmes en elle », Le Temps, October 23, 2010 (in French).
- ^ Delorme, Wendy (August 8, 2011). "La pudeur se situe parfois dans des zones inattendues" [Modesty Sometimes Is Found In Unexpected Places]. NouvelObs.com (Interview). Féministes en tous genres (in French). Interviewed by Sylvie Duverger.
- ^ Berger, Anne Emmanuelle (1 December 2013). "2 Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in "America"". The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender. Fordham University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8232-5385-2. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ Delorme, Wendy (31 October 2007). Quatrième génération [Fourth Generation]. Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-73159-7.
- ^ Anne Delabre, « Wendy Delorme sur tous les fronts », Têtu, March 20, 2009 (in French).
- ^ Alice Antheaume, « Wendy Delorme : "Les trois quarts des filles ne savent pas qu'elles ont un clitoris lorsqu'elles ont un rapport sexuel" », 20 minutes, March 21, 2009 (in French).
- ^ Nicolas G., « Insurrection !
External links
- Delorme, Wendy (August 8, 2011). "La pudeur se situe parfois dans des zones inattendues" [Modesty Sometimes Is Found In Unexpected Places]. NouvelObs.com (Interview). Féministes en tous genres (in French). Interviewed by Sylvie Duverger.
- Delorme, Wendy (December 15, 2012). "The Words of the Flesh". La Clé des Langues. Lyon: ENS LYON/DGESCO. ISSN 2107-7029. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
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