How is Bird Club different to other lesbian or queer spaces?
As far as I know the club is the first ever performance night that promotes queer femininity. I don’t believe in being pedantic. When I first started it, it was all queer lady entertainment, now it’s almost changed to where I want every performance to engage with femininity. Most of the people who do this enjoy their own femininity, whether they are a drag queen or a femme, and I don’t think that’s ever been done and it’s why people are coming to it. It’s got the right mix of surreal and politics. I’m really into music and I try really hard to make sure the music is unusual – the DJs are not going to play cheese and that helps too. It was right time, right place for Bird Club. You’re a proud feminist performer – one of your acts is playing Birdie Solanas, mother of Valerie Solanas. Feminism has a bit of a bad rap – what can we do to bring it back into fashion? I’m quite happy with the label feminist and I’m also happy not to use it. I don’t feel any attachment to it because I’m more in
