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Hadassah Hill is a Brooklyn-based queer writer, creative, and activist who goes public under the name Axon D'Luxe. She is a repatriated expat by way of Toronto, DIY tech geek, and working-class gone hustling-class high femme fatale who's been onstage for over 13 years. She loves anything on two wheels and rhinestones.
D'Luxe's electrotext has been curated & performed all over North America, including at Queeruption 10, Sista'hood, Femme 2008 & Femme 2006, Ladyfests, the Hysteria Festival @ Buddies in Bad Times, Mayworks; at universities, at her own and colleagues' shows, and with the now retired all-femme troupe, Trash & Ready.
She has been published in anthologies and magazines, and has three self-published albums out: Bad Girls Belief System, 2005; Bombshell Lexicon [Trash & Ready], 2005; Ice-9, 2008
She is the Art Director of the award-winning $pread Magazine, a quarterly glossy magazine by and for people in the sex industry and their allies.
She has worked in independent print, web, theater and audio production for 10 years, and is committed to creating representations of the diverse communities she embodies using self-taught multimedia techniques, and to skill-sharing with others - she is completing an MFA in DIY by teaching no/low-cost multimedia strategies and is committed to empowering individuals to speak for themselves using new technologies.
She likes to curate and plan events, and has put together shows from Manhattan to Seattle on a regular basis since 1999.
Hadassah is trained as a costumer and makes textile artist using embroidery, antique and vintage fabrics, costumery and recycling vintage clothing, She also is co-founder of the H[art] Collective, a queer art collective in Brooklyn.
Lastly, Hadassah made her film debut in the 2003 dyke porn Pornograflix, moonlighted as an Aslan Leather model, and recently submitted a photo set to NoFauxxx.com. And she used to do burlesque before she realised that saying the words, too, made her way happier!
We can't actually be close because you don't really know me. But maybe if you looked at my bio, upcoming and recent show info, and a performance CV we might be able to work something casual out.
xo, HH D'Luxe
March 29.08 Boston @ Women, Action & the Media Conference: Teaching a workshop on DIY media th the Hart Collective.
Feb 23.08 NYC @ Fat is Contagious Conference: Taking hotfatty portraits with the Hart Collective, and performing at the cabaret that evening at Rapture Cafe
Dec 7.07 Bklyn, NY - Gaybomb Video Shoot Party
Nov 4.07 Toronto, ON - $pread Magazine Launch @ Goodhandy's
August 7 - SAN FRANCISCO Radar Hosted by Michelle Tea - SF Main Library
This Radar features Michael Chorost, Myriam Gurba, Damien Luxe and Alejandro Murguia.
August 3 - VANCOUVER @ Queeruption 10!
August 1 - SEATTLE Wildrose - Mad Science Cabaret
July 29 - SEATTLE Bent Writing Institute
Workshop: teaching DIY audio & promotion for independent writers/performers
July 22 - SAN FRANCISCO SWFAF Lick My Kitty Cabaret
July 19 - SAN FRANCISCO Desiree Alliance
Workshop: teaching independent media making with Serena Noir
May 4/07 - Featured Reader at Limbo [Brooklyn, NY]
March 19/07 - Featured performer at The Science of Sexy Cabaret [Seattle]
March 16/07 - Featured performer at the Sista'hood Love Cabaret [Vancouver]
March/07 - Featured reader at SUNY Oswego women's center [Oswego, NY]
Jan 30, 2007 - Feature reading at Bluestockings 'Women's Poetry Jam" [NY, NY]
Nov, 2006 - Have A Drink On Me [burlesque] for $pread Magazine Launch [Philadelphia, PA]
August 12 - Femme 2006
As part of San Francisco's first Femme Conference, I was really fucking excited and proud to be a room full of brilliant femme performance art. And you thought there was no movement. Ha! Much love to Vancouver's Bring Your Own, to Oakland's Savory Sweet and to SF's Transformers as well as to Railroad, all the awesome Portland kids and every kick ass person I met in at the conference. People, the west coast really is nicer!
July 2006 - Perpetual Motion Roadshow #35
Vvvvvvvvvvroom! Along with Jesse Dangerously and Cort Bulloch, I roamed eclectic and did karaoke across the East with the coolest DIY tour to repeatedly cover North America.
July14: Quimbys Books, Chicago
July 15: Cleveland
July 16: The Rex, Pittsburgh PA [a Perpetual Takeover of the open mic - thanks Dr.Awkward!]
July 17: The Bug Jar, Rochester NY
July 18: Galapagos, Brooklyn
July 19: Toc Toc Cafe, Montreal
July 20: Venus Envy, Ottawa
July 21: The Gladstone Art Bar, Toronto
April 30.05 - Bad Girls Belief System Release
The mad symmetry became digital April 30, 10pm at Hurricanes. Performing with me was the amazing: Sandra Alland, Kristyn Dunnion, Maggie MacDonald, Jenn Moxy, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, and Zoe Whittall.
April 20, 2005: Feature performance as part of RAG
Dec 12, 2004: Trash & Ready's Wintertime Slumber Party
Co-Curated, Created, Promoted and Performed live spoken word at . Performed with Kristyn Dunnion and Elvira Kurt.
Dec 6, 2004: Poetry as part of December 6th Memorial at George Brown College, Toronto.
Oct 1, 2004: Training School for Maladjusted Robots' performance at Ladyfest Toronto.
Sept-Nov 2004: Wordwhore Tour w/ Trash & Ready
: 10 shows in Ontario and Quebec. Performed with Lesbiennes on Ecstasy, Kids on TV, Trish Salah, Alexis O'd Hara, Sky Gilbert.
August 2004: Featured at Launch of Trade: Queer Things Magazine
August 2004: Launch of Trash & Ready. Show with Mariko Tamaki, Emmet Outlaw, and the Republic of Safety.
July 2004: Featured poet at Fruit Market
June 2004: 'Captain Cracker' Drag Performance with King Size as part of Pride Toronto.
May 2004: 'Connectionist Manifesto' presented at Mayworks: Festival of Working People in the Arts.
May 2004: Spoken Word, opening for Sini Anderson and Robosapien. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
March 2004: 'James Bond's Secret' Drag/Burlesque performance as part of Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Girls.
January 2004: Featured reader at We Still Got Words, monthly reading series at the IV Lounge, Toronto.
December 2003: Reading as part of launch for Geeks, Misfits, and Outlaws.
November 2003: Queen Tribute Night: Curated, Hosted and Performed a live night of singing, drag, and performance art commemorating Freddy Mercury.
September 2003: 'Hot For Teacher' burlesque
April 2003: 'Have a Drink on Me' burlesque as part of High Femme Friday
March 2003: Drag as part of Big Daddy Kings Spring Fling.
July 2003: Spoken word as part of High Femme Friday at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
September 2002: Spoken Word as part of Paper Airplane Cabaret
April 2002: Drag/Burlesque 'Shook Me All Night Long' Diva Show, Rochester, NY.
March 2002: MC at Nightwood Theatre's International Women's Day Cabaret.
Feb 2001: Burlesque as part of Big Daddy Kings show.
August 2000: Poetry as part of the Bug Bowl summer festival. Rochester, NY.
June 2000: Co-performed and promoted Rock the Vote poetry show with Cate Smith and Fennel. Bug Jar, Rochester, NY.
April 2000: Diva Show, 'Velouria.'
March 2000: Co-performed and promoted poetry show with Cate Smith. Christian's Cafe, Rochester, NY.
Nov 1998: Featured Reader at Rochester Institute of Technology Literary Cafè.
1995-1999: Habitual featured reader at Poetry events in Rochester, NY.
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