Monthly Archives: November 2020

Two generations of Berlin gender-interrogation performers share the stage and double the power!

Bridge Markland with cigar Nov 17 by Suzanne ForbesI was so excited when I saw Bridge Markland would be performing with Buba Sababa!

Bridge, who’ve I have drawn many times, is an incredible icon of Queer Berlin, a Drag Queen/King and genderfuckery artist who has created decades of transgressive works. During the early quarantine days Bridge shared archived show ephemera like press, flyers and posters on Instagram. You can really see what a pioneering role she played in international gender performance theater.

Plus, she has created some of the strangest and most unnerving puppet shows you will ever see! And danced and written and taught and modeled for artists and so much more. Bridge celebrates 35 years on stage this year!

This show, queens + kings special with Bridge Markland + Buba Sababa, included multiple acts and reveals and so many sheddings of skin!

And Bridge shares the stage with generosity and grace, welcoming Berlin’s new generation of gender-play performers.

Buba Sababa Nov 17 by Suzanne ForbesSeeing Venus Boy Buba Sababa onstage with Bridge Markland was fantastic.

Buba Sababa is a radical talent, a fearless performer who really gets into it with the audience. In the drawing above you see Buba eating sweets and dancing to “Sugar Sugar” in macho persona, which was layered and intense. There was also a video collage piece spotlighting toxic masculinity which was hard to watch and yet heart-wrenching, and Buba dancing in femme mode in veils, and much more. Buba is part of the amazing Venus Boys, “a collective of Berlin based Drag performers who paint from the palette of performative masculinity”. I have drawn Buba before as well, and hope to draw Buba many times in the future.

In the chat people were saying things like “I feel like I should have paid 125 euros ticket for this and I don’t have any money” and “DED FOREVER DED”. It was a Tuesday night twitch show but it felt like we were in some prestigious theater watching an experimental show funded by Udo Kier. Seeing these two generations of Berlin gender-performance work and dance together was stunning.

queens + kings special with Bridge Markland + Buba Sababa was part of Camillo Queer Cinema Week, which is online this year. You can see the programm here. There are more events to come!

I am incredibly grateful to my Patreon Patrons, whose monthly financial support makes it possible for me work safely at home, documenting Berlin performers.

BYE BYE DONNY!!!!

BindTrump-to-the-Phantom-Zone-by-Suzanne-Forbes-Feb-24-2017-CC0-public-domainThis artwork binding Drump to the Phantom Zone was made during the 2017 worldwide witchwork called “BindTrump”.

Original post text below. Bye bye Donny!

In honor of the Binding “President” Trump rituals happening all over the world beginning February 24, I made this picture.

Since I am a science fiction person and not an occult person (love and respect to all my occult peeps!) I boundTrump to the Phantom Zone. You may recall that’s where Superman puts villains.

The picture is licensed Creative Commons CC0; it is in the public domain and I waive all rights to it.

I wish with all my heart for “President” Trump to vanish to eternal imprisonment in the Phantom Zone with the rest of the supervillains, and may he stay there for all eternity, outside space and time, harming no one else.

Lots of good folk are involved in this project and its sharing around the world. Here is a central source and the beginning of the binding words:

I call upon you
To bind
“President” Donald J. Trump
So that he may fail utterly
That he may do no harm
To any human soul
Nor any tree
Animal
Rock
Stream
or Sea

Bind him so that he shall not break our polity
Usurp our liberty
Or fill our minds with hate, confusion, fear, or despair
And bind, too,
All those who enable his wickedness
And those whose mouths speak his poisonous lies

This is only the first binding; it will be repeated all over the world “at midnight on every waning crescent moon until he is removed from office.”

I am incredibly grateful to my Patreon Patrons, whose monthly financial support let me create and release this piece of public domain political art.