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fixated with that image of her. By the late '70s I had decided I sort of wanted to sexualize her name and become her, more or less. So I started in the late '70s calling myself
Vaginal Davis. I started to perform– or tried to perform– at these gay clubs in Los Angeles, in Hollywood. The people in these clubs, they would look at me and say, 'Vaginal Davis? Well who are you supposed to be?' And I said, 'Well, Angela Davis– it's a homage to that.' And they'd say, 'Well who's that?' They didn't know who Angela Davis was."
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s Nicole Disser, that much of her artwork and performances are inspired by her late mother's artistic ability, stating, "I'm so intertwined with my mother. My whole career as an artist, and all of my visual art, is basically co-opting my mother. My mother didn't consider herself an artist, she just
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and activism as a whole to be one of her biggest inspirations, explaining, "They came into the schools, they had guns, and they took over. They were teaching us all these revolutionary songs and chants and what not. At that time, when Angela Davis was the most wanted woman in
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made stuff. Looking back to the things that she did, they were installations, assemblages – things in the art world that have proper names to them – she was doing this way back then. If I get any notice for any of my artworks or any of my performances, it's because I just copied my mother."
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Davis has been accepted as an artist in the queer community more recently, but "the gay world became more open to what did after established self outside of the gay world." For many years, Davis felt as though she was "too gay for the punk scene and too punk for the gay."
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Vaginal Davis is one of the founders of the homo-core punk movement. She chooses to exploit herself to engage in rude provocations and "gender-fucking." As a self-labeled "sexual repulsive", she is an icon of the disruptive performance aesthetic known as terrorist drag.
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Davis has traveled to various universities and educational institutions to give lectures on her life experiences, including a talk on youth hosteling at New York
University's Performance Studies complex in November 2015 with German actress and friend
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Creative Time Summit in Washington, D.C., a conference on art and social issues which featured workshops and speeches on topics ranging from the
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I'm intersex, born with both female and male genitalia, so I'm a strange hybrid creature. I'm also part German, quarter Jewish, my father was born in Mexico and my mother is French Creole.
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and the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. After the performances Tenderloin released the music video for "The Golden One" that featured drag queen the Goddess Bunny and was directed by
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into a program for gifted students, where she was first exposed to and developed a love of theater and opera. At age 7, Davis saw
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surfers and wistful musings by Miss Davis themself." Through Davis' job at
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2577:. Psychology Press. pp. 217–224.
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2316:"The Teachings of Vaginal Davis"
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1251:The Other Newest One
1139:Three Faces of Women
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943:Feminist Sweepstakes
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2295:. November 29, 2011
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951:"I Could Have Sex"
928:"Well, Well, Well"
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2402:. December 1, 2015
1988:The New York Times
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1344:The Dream of Norma
1333:Beulah Blacktress
1281:Fra unter Einfluss
964:"Mama's Not Dead"
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640:Black Lives Matter
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