Dykes on Mykes

DoMs swap spit with Michelle Tea

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0400

DoMs talk to Michelle Tea, creator of the Sister Sit legacy that has put many a queer writer on stage and in the spotlight. Back from the past a decade later, Sister Spit is on tour and coming to a queer venue near you.
Sister Spit began in 1994 through the efforts of co-directors Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea. Sini and Michelle gathered together a group of some of the most notorious, talented, and just frickin' interesting women and dykes, and went on tour all over the U.S.

mél also introduces her theory of the weather and psychology, and much banter ensues about weather accuracy, and it's corresponding "science".

Check out:

http://www.sisterspit.com/

Prom Night with Mariko Tamaki

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Mariko Tamaki special guest stars via the Transgress Festival for Queer Writers with an excerpt of a reading she performed in October 2009. An Annual Event that is part of the Ottawa Writers Festival, this particular show featured Mariko Tamaki, Michael V Smith, Derek McCormack, and was hosted by Kalyani.

Mariko Tamaki is a Toronto writer and performer with an avid interest in freaks, weirdos, and other fabulous forms of human behaviour. In the past, Mariko has appeared on stage with a variety of performance troupes, including fat activists Pretty, Porky and Pissed Off, The Corporate Wet Nurse Association, and theatre misfits TOA.

Check out:

http://www.marikotamaki.com/

DoMs Drop The Hammer!

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs dreams do come true!
Iconic lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer joins DoMs to talk about her epic career and her newly released memoir, HAMMER, Making It in Sex and Movies, brought to you by the Feminist Press at CUNY and her upcoming retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Barbara Hammer!! Wow!!

Check out:

http://barbarahammer.com/
http://www.feministpress.org/books/barbara-hammer/hammer

2010 Edgy Women Special!

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Special guest co-host Erin McGregor plays wicked tunes for DoMs International Women's Day, Edgy Women Special!

Performance artist Jess Dobkin describes her practice and process about her latest one-woman show, EVERYTHING I'VE GOT, A raw and intimate exploration of creativity and mortality tainted by the artist's urgency, vulnerability and humour.

The always fabuous Sasha Van Bon Bon of Toronto's Scandelles, talks about their latest venture, NEON NIGHTZ, a provocative evening revealing the insights of the strip clubs of Montreal in the ‘90s.

Check out:

http://www.edgywomen.ca
http://www.jessdobkin.com/
http://www.thescandelles.com/

the incredible d'bi young

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:00:00 -0500

DOMs are thrilled to talk to world famous dub poet, d'bi young about her latest work, blood.claat at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa. Fusing theatre and dub poetry, the extraordinary d'bi performs with wit, charisma and power. Winner of two Dora Awards for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding New Play.

Check out:

http://www.gctc.ca/plays/bloodclaat
http://www.dbiyoung.net/

Bull Dyke Chronicles and the Rhubarb Festival

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:00:00 -0500

DOMs are super thrilled to talk live! From New York City! To actress and performer extraordinaire, Shelly Mars about her latest performance series endeavor, Bull Dyke Chronicles:

February 20 & 27, 2010 @ 9:30 pm
March 20 & 27, 2010 @ 9:30 pm
April 17 & 24, 2010 @ 9:30 pm
May 8, 15 & 22, 2010 @ 9:30 pm
June 5 & 12, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, NYC
212-219-0736

DOMs are also excited to speak with Erika Hennebury, Festival Director of The 31st Rhubarb Festival, a 3-week contemporary performance festival where the artist and the idea is centre. Here, inspiration, innovation and, above all, risk are paramount.

Check out:
http://www.shellymars.com/
http://homobonoboproject.com/

http://artsexy.ca/festival.cfm?id=9

DoMs get Bash'd!

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super excited to talk to Chris Craddock, writer and performer of Bash'd, a gay rap opera that has been taking Canada and Off-Broadway by storm.

DoMs are also thrilled to have Erin McGregor start her first day as a tech apprentice at DoMs in what will hopefully be a regularly scheduled appearance.

Check out:
http://homohiphop.blogspot.com/

T.L. Cowan!

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:00:00 -0500

T.L. Cowan is in the DoMs studio to gab about her research on the queer, feminist cabaret scene in Canada. Wicked!

DoMs request show!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs listeners phone it in with requests, requests, requests!

Marie Brassard and The Dinah!

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are honoured, thrilled and beside themselves with happiness to have the amazing writer and performer, Marie Brassard in studio talking about Jimmy, a brilliant and poignant piece about Jimmy, a homosexual hairdresser who was born in the dream of an American General.

DoMs are equally thrilled to have legendary playwright and collaborator to Marie Brassard, Louis Negin to talk about their project, The Glass Eye.

In the second half of the show, DoMs talk with Mariah Hanson the founder of the legendary Club Skirts presents The Dinah - the largest and the original event of the modern Dinah Shore weekend festivities. But Mariah Hanson is more than just an event promoter extraordinaire, she is an avant-garde business entrepreneur, lesbian icon, who in the span of two decades has created an unsurpassed phenomenon, created an impressive empire and raised a historical Dinah’sty!

Check out:
http://infrarouge.org/
http://www.dinahshoreweekend.com/

Jane Siberry special

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

It's one of those anti-climatic shows where DoMs try to get ahold of Issa, formerly Jane Siberry, but to no avail, and instead play a lot of Jane Siberry music, and mess around with talking computers who sing Issa's praises.

Check out:
http://www.janesiberry.com/

Nicky Click, Missy Fuego and Image+Nation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with the wacky and outrageous Nicky Click who is currently on tour in preparation for her upcoming album to be metaphorically released in 2010.

DoMs also have Meliza Bañales, aka Missy Fuego, tele-perform part of a story for our listening pleasure. She currently poses as Nikki Slikk the equally naughty, but more evil, twin of Nicky Click in 2ByrdsN-Luv.

And finally, DoMs talk with Katharine Setzer, director of programming for image+nation, Canada's oldest and largest LGBT film festival about what's on at this year's festival.
Check out:
http://www.nickyclick.com
http://www.myspace.com/nickyclick
http://www.youtube.com/nickyclick
http://www.crunksnotdead.com
www.myspace.com/melizabanales/missyfuego.

http://www.image-nation.org/

French collective Dyke Rivers keep it cumin!

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to fabulous french collective, Dyke Rivers in town from France for the TURN*ON festival, the fourth edition of Artivistic, an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism.

Check out:
http://artivistic.org/
http://www.dykerivers.com/

Goodbye, Le Mystique, hello Studio 303's 20th Anniversary!

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Stephen Wells, bartender extraordinaire at Le Mystique, the oldest gay bar in North America with 37 years to it's credit, after it's last night! That's right, Le Mystique is closing, and it will be missed by the Montreal gay community as it is a landmark that has been witness to much of our history.

DoMs also talk with Montreal queer event organizer and Studio 303 Artistic and General Director, Miriam Ginestier about the 20th Anniversary show, VINGT that reunited 20 artists on stage to create a unique choreographic collage where each artist contributed a 3’03’’ piece from a starting movement and position dictated by Miriam Ginestier and to an original sound composition of Alexis O’Hara.

Check out:
http://www.studio303.ca/en/events/20th-anniversary/

Save the Main!

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Velma Candyass of Dead Doll Dancer fame about her involvement in Montreal activist group, Save the Main, an organization whose mandate includes INTEGRATING AND PROVIDING ADDED VALUE to the project of reconstruction and revitalization of the Quadrilatère Saint-Laurent in the Quartier des Spectacles as proposed by the SDA.
DoMs also talk to Emilie from Stella about upcoming events and ConStellation, a unique magazine whose content, illustrations, and design are provided almost entirely by sex-workers.

Check out:
http://savethemain.com/
http://www.chezstella.org/stella/?q=en/

B(OLD)er dykes do it best!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are tickled pick to talk with Claire from BOLD about their upcoming conference and how incredibly sexy older dykes are with wisdom, age and experience. The 5th Annual BOLD Conference is a lesbian-packed weekend for older dykes, but welcomes all lesbians -- 50+ years and younger lovers and friends. Meet up with 175+ women from across Canada and the US!

Check out:
http://www.soundsandfuries.com/BOLD.html

DoMs music!

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Every so often, DoMs like to do a show that is just music, music, music. This is one of those shows!

Writer Nairne Holtz!

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super thrilled to have guest interviewer, Megan Butcher talk with writer Nairne Holtz about, This One’s Going to Last Forever, her latest collection of short stories about relationships.

Check out:
http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/nairne.html

Look out DoMs, here come The Cliks

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Shot in a classic rough and tumble, musty, dusty warehouse space in Old Montreal, DoMs talk to The Cliks super hot frontman, Lucas Silveira on the set of their music video shoot for the title track of their latest album, Dirty King.

Check out:

http://thecliks.com/news/

Lisa Foad speaks!

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Toronto writer Lisa Foad delivers a sexy and biting reading recorded in Ottawa for the first part of DoMs, and later discusses her new book, The Night is a Mouth, in the second half. Lisa Foad’s debut story collection, The Night Is A Mouth (Exile Editions, 2009), has been praised by The Globe and Mail as “a brand-new thing” – Foad writes “with courage and surprising panache.” Her creative work has appeared in Matrix, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, and Red Light: Superheroes, Sluts and Saints, and she contributes cultural commentary to a variety of publications, including The Globe And Mail, NOW Magazine and Xtra. Lisa Foad lives in Toronto and is at work on her first novel.

OMG- it's MEN on DoMs!!

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super thrilled to talk with Ginger Brooks Takahashi of the mega amazing MEN! MEN is a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective that focuses on the energy of live performance and radical potential of dance music.

DoMs are also pretty chuffed to talk to writer, Tara Michelle Ziniuk about her process, her work, and which words get written down. Check Out:

http://www.myspace.com/men
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/articles/tara_michelle_ziniuk_experience

MUFF Diving with Zoe Brown

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with MUFF co-founder post-festival about The Montreal Underground Film Festival and all the glamour that goes with it! MUFF is a festival that celebrates low-budget filmmaking and promotes those who challenge the boundaries of mainstream Hollywood.
Check Out:

http://muff514.com/accueilhome.html

Black Transmen alternative documentary and Montreal Sex Party

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs chat with Awilda Rodriguez Lora, producer of the film "Still Black: A portrait of black transmen", an alternative feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity.

DoMs also talk with Sarah Fuchs of Against the Wall, a new queer Montreal sex party where spin the bottle can be gateway foreplay to hot and heavy action. Featuring a live porn cam, crush board, sex tents, and daisy chain combinations that will surely make your head spin, Sarah gives us the low down on how to get down and dirty.
Check Out:

http://stillblackfilm.org/

http://againstthewallmontreal.wordpress.com/

Jess Dobkin and PINK28!

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are thrilled to talk to the fabulous Jess Dobkin about her performance practice, motherhood, and actualizing metaphors by being locked out of the theatre in only a towel...

Guest contributor Aaron Miechkota talks to the organizers of PINK28; a group founded in 2008 to cater to gay women in the Montreal area.

Check out:

http://www.jessdobkin.com/

http://www.pink28montreal.com/

Porn Porn Porn!!!

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:00:00 -0500

It's hot and heavy in the DoMs studio with porn porn porn! We talk to director Shine Louise Houton, whose latest film Champion, is melting dvd players across North America and features an orgasmic cast complete with a boxing plot for those who get off on storylines.

We're also joined by DIY web porn director, Bren Ryder who tells all about her website, GoodDykePorn.com who, with the help of beautiful and brave models, creates sexy scenes for your viewing pleasure.

Check out:

http://www.blowfish.com
http://pinkwhite.biz/

http://www.gooddykeporn.com/index.php
http://brenryder.com/

Stereo Total

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Françoise Cactus of electro-french-pop-rock-à-billy-disco-international-underground-duo sensation, Stereo Total!

DoMs also spread the word on all of the mega hip and happening events in Montreal in March! Rock it!

Check out:
http://www.myspace.com/stereototal

http://www.stereototal.de

Toronto's Granny Boots

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs continue their love affair with Toronto, and talk to Chelsey Lichtman the co-orginizer of Granny Boots, the latest and greatest hot, in-bed-by-11pm party that's rockin Toronto. Chelsey dishes the dirt on Granny Boots and her recent trip to Palestine!

DoMs also scour the mailbox for bin picks...

The Legendary Ferron

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are stoked to talk to the legendary Ferron, whose rough-hewn voicing, chewy phrasing, and poetic songwriting has brought many favorable comparisons, including Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. She's been called the Johnny Cash of lesbian folksinging, and it is our absolute pleasure to have her on the show!
DoMs also talk to the hilarious Lex Vaughn about her upcoming show at Toronto's Rhubarb Festival. Graham & Diane features Lex as a meek admin assistant who is trying her hand in the performing arts, after being inspired by a visit from corporate comedians at her workplace and Graham, a brash and utterly foul-mouthed ventriloquist doll and Diane's only friend for twenty years.

Check out:
http://www.ferrononline.com/

http://www.artsexy.ca/show.cfm?id=241

Get it Together! Toronto's Power Plant brings it

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs wish all of their listeners a very happy new year with 5 L-Word Season 5 box set give-aways! Yeah!

DoMs also talk to Helena Rickett, the Senior Curator of Programs at the Power Plant in Toronto about, "If we can't get it Together: Artists rethinking the (mal)function of communities", an exhibition that proposes that the idea of "community" calls out for radical renewal. Helena also talks about the accompanying 2-day symposium, "We Ourselves and Us", that combines perspectives from artists, philosophers and curators to consider current ideas and reconceptualizations of communities and collectivity.

Check out: http://www.thepowerplant.org/
http://www.weourselvesandus.org/

Sizeism Workshop Series for Every BODY!

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are joined in-studio by Aaron Miechkota to talk about her latest series of workshops at The 2110: Centre for Gender Advocacy, where Every BODY is invited… to “2x4: A Size-ism Workshop Series for Every Body!” Together we’ll pound out fat phobia and put the squeeze on size-ism in this workshop series where every BODY is invited… and celebrated!

“2x4” workshops will explore, challenge and remix size-ism to create a world that embraces everybodies’ body and everybodies’ size! Each themed evening will include a collaborative art project to arouse action and a facilitated discussion to challenge, imagine and create an community where every body fits.

Check out: http://www.centre2110.org/

Ivan Coyote and Megan Butcher

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are thrilled to feature Ivan Coyote and Megan Butcher in a live recording of their performances for Ivan's book launch of "The Slow Fix", recorded November 20th at Ottawa's best sex shop, Venus Envy.

Megan Butcher is a librarian, pornographer, sex educator and writer. The author of two chapbooks, "This is What She Said" and "Caught My Eye", as well as co-author of a zine entitled, "A Guide to the Mannerly Wooing and Winning of the Object of Your Affection", Megan's work has also appeared in dig magazine, Herizons, Ottawa Xpress, and SMUT Magazine.
Check out: http://meganbutcher.com/

Ivan E. Coyote is a writer and performer. She is the author of five books published by Arsenal Pulp Press: the four story collections Close to Spider Man, (shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize), One Man''s Trash, and Loose End (shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Women''s Fiction Award), and her latest, The Slow Fix, as well as the novel Bow Grip (also shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Women''s Fiction Award and named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association). Ivan was also a founding member of the performance collective Taste This. She is a long-time columnist for Xtra! in Toronto and Xtra! West in Vancouver. Originally from the Yukon, Ivan will return to Vancouver from Ottawa in the fall of 2008.

Check out: http://www.ivanecoyote.com/

Allyson Mitchell, Christina Zeidler and GB Jones

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Allyson Mitchell and Christina Zeidler in Toronto about their upcoming screening at GIV (Groupe Intervention Video) co-presented by La Centrale. Freeshow Seymour is the tag-team alias for the collaborative works of Toronto filmmakers Christina Zeidler and Allyson Mitchell, who have been sharing their love for film craft, thrift shopping, and maximalist approach to art making since 1994. Their collaboration is grounded in “Deep Lez”, a posi-core practice of reclaiming diss’ed and discarded feminist root values in performance, writing, organizing, teaching, music, film, sculpture, and installation. Their politics are expressed through the reclamation of equally abandoned materials such as hard candy, plastic animal figurines, fun fur, cross stitching, macrame, and stuffed animals. This retrospective resembles your childhood dress-up box and teenage hope chest. Childhood trauma, puberty, fatphobia, queer fantasies, feminist epiphanies, breakups and breakdowns, are the tattered rags that Freeshow Seymour lovingly transform into dazzling celluloid quilts. Wrap yourself in the Deep Lez Love.

DoMs also talk to the legendary GB Jones about her latest film, The Lollipop Generation, her first feature film. Shot in both Super 8 mm film and analogue video, “The Lollipop Generation” explores the lives of four teenagers living on the street: Georgie, a runaway, played by Jena von Brucker; Rufus, portrayed by Mark Ewert, rescued from his kidnappers by Georgie; Peanut, an innocent kid kicked out of home played by KC Klass; and Jane Danger in the role of Janie, the experienced street kid.

“The Lollipop Generation” was shot throughout the United States and Canada with a cast of underground queercore superstars from the worlds of independent music, film and fanzines including: Jena von Brucker, Mark Ewert, Jane Danger, Vaginal Davis; Calvin Johnson, Jen Smith, and Joel Gibb. The film also features cameos by artists Anonymous Boy, Scott Treleaven, Paul P. and Ian Philips, musician Gary Fembot, and actor Andrew Cecil.

Check out:
http://lacentrale.org/

Molly Landreth and Bitch Magazine!

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to photographer Molly Landreth about her laterst series, Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America, an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today.

DoMs also talk to Andi Zeisler, cofounder and editorial/creative director of Bitch Magazine! Bitch features critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising, and other elements of pop culture. They also interview feminist pop culture makers, review new books and music, and lots more. Check out:
http://mollylandreth.com/home.html
http://bitchmagazine.org/

Queer History Project

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Tara and Jen of Vancouver's Queer History Project, a pilot project for the Vancouver queer community to create, explore and share their history. It's an opportunity to showcase what was funny, brave, caring, painful, motivating, subversive, routine, ignored, gorgeous and arousing. What happened and what was it like? The Queer History Project invites the community to define its ongoing history.

DoMs also talk to director Gwen Haworth about her documentary film, She's a Boy I Knew that uses archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation to tell Steven Haworth's coming out story to his family about his life-long female gender identity.
The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition.

Check out:
http://www.queerhistoryproject.com/
http://www.artflick.com/synopsis.html

Nathalie Claude and her crazy automats!

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to performer extraordinaire, Nathalie Claude about her latest project, Le Salon Automat, a one-woman/three-robot show that features Nathalie's fabulous talents.

DoMs also talk with Catherine Purdie from LIX, the Lesbian Information Xchange, a community-based, not-for-profit network of lesbians in the Ottawa area who get together for business networking, social, and educational events.

DoMs also talk with Kim Hadley from Montreal's Outspoken, an emerging group whose mission is to create a forum that will enable lesbians in the Montreal area to get together for business networking, social, and educational events.

Check out:
http://www.momentumtemple.net/an08/automate/salon-automate.html
http://www.girlswanttoknow.com/

http://www.outspokenmtl.com/

La Centrale and the Factory Project

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with Leila P and Onya Hogan-Finlay from La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse about GENDER ALARM! Nouveaux féminismes en art actuel, an event series organized in celebration of La Centrale's new mandate’s first anniversary. GENDER ALARM! will feature a group exhibition and performance night, a film and video screening, as well as a round-table discussion with a panel of participants well-known for their influential reflections on feminism and gender theories. GENDER ALARM! will focus on the role of emerging feminist discourses within contemporary art and mark the start of La Centrale’s 2008-2009 programming season, with bold exhibitions and performances addressing the new mandate.

DoMs also talk to Mieko Ouchi about her piece, 15 minutes made with collaborator, Beau Coleman for The Factory Project. This tribute to Warhol’s “Silver Factory” of the 1960s will take place in an artist-run loft not dissimilar to the original, reuniting artists from across the country to create performances and installations exploring the spirit of the Factory from a contemporary perspective. Co-curated by David Allan King and Miriam Ginestier, the event will feature a central lounge surrounded by a walk-thru maze of interactive exhibits. Check out:
http://www.lacentrale.org/2005/homeE.html

http://studio303.ca/events_factory_e.html

Rae Spoon!

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are thrilled to bits to have the ever talented Rae Spoon in studio to talk about his latest album, superioryouareinferior and to play some choice tracks. Awesome!
Rae Spoon was born on the Canadian prairies of the 80’s. In his early twenties he hit the road as one of the world’s only transgender country singers and toured Canada, Europe, Australia and the USA. When the obvious dangers and contradictions of this role caught up to him he hid in a small town in Eastern Germany for a winter. There he was inspired to write an album about his darker experiences of Canada and it’s highways.

superioryouareinferior is Rae’s fourth solo album, and his first in over two years. It was co-produced by Lorrie Matheson in his Calgary studio. Lyrically the album is his most revealing to date. His voice walks the highways from the Yukon to Newfoundland singing of whales that have gotten lost, the wolves in our imaginations, the Great Lakes, cabin fever, dancing with grizzlies, the psychology of a haunting ghost and the issues of ongoing colonialism.

Check out: http://www.raespoon.com/

Controversial Unborn Victims of Violence Act Bill

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with Indu Vashist from 2110, the Centre for Gender Advocacy about Bill C-484, the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" that is making its way through parliament. The bill is controversial as it opens the door to anti-abortion legislation in Canada (currently abortions are de-criminalized and regulated by health care professionals). Several groups around town are campaigning against the bill.

2110 is a volunteer and collectively run organization, commited to fighting gender oppression, especially as it relates to communities of color, First Nations and Indigenous people, transsexual, transgendered and/or intersex people, deaf people, LGB, Queer and Questioning people, people who experience sizeism, sex workers, low income people and/or people with disabilities and other marginalized communities.

Check out:
http://www.centre2110.org/

Pride Parade Politics

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs try desperately to get Ottawa Dyke March organizer, Ariel Troster on the phone to talk about this year's march, but telephone technology and power outages get the better of them. Instead, Dayna and mél discuss Montreal pride, play wicked music, and deconstruct Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl.

Check out:
http://sparkoffreedom.blogspot.com/2008/08/ottawa-dyke-march-2008.html
http://fiertemontrealpride.com/home.htm
http://www.diverscite.org/2008/anglais/index.htm

Kumbia Queers!

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super excited to have Kumbia Queers live in studio!

Kumbia Queers is a collective of self-identified punk queer women activists from Argentina and Mexico who, for over 12 years, have engaged in a vast range of cultural production including writing and performing music in a variety of groups and projects (Kumbia Queers, She Devils, Juana Chang, Afrodyke etc), including Las Ultrasonicas, the first Mexican all women punk band, as well as She Devils, the first homocore all women punk band in Latin America. Members of Kumbia Queers are also the founders and ongoing organizers of Belladona Festival, a festival that since 1995, annually brings together and exhibits the work of female artists in Argentina, as well as the publisher of Resistencia, the first punk fanzine to exist in Argentina. Individually, the members of Las Kumbia Queers are highly active and renown in a wide range of artistic fields as filmmakers, street artists, writers, activists and composers.

DoMs also talk to boxing legend, Savoy Kapow Howe of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club. Savoy gives us a tour of her gym, gives Dayna some pointers on how to box, and throws in a few thoughts on motorcycle maintenance.

Check out:
Kumbia Queers
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=160838674

Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club
http://www.torontonewsgirls.com/tng_main/index.php

Toronto Artist, Sherri Hay

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are joined by guest hosts DeAnne Smith and Nicola Kuchta who fill us in on all that is hip and happening on the Montreal scene.
Dayna is still in Toronto with a special interview with artist Sherri Hay who gives us an audio tour of her studio, her practice and tells all on her preparation for an upcoming exhibition in Tokyo.

Check out:
www.sherrihay.com

Toronto Pride!

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Still obsessed with Toronto, DoMs talk to jewellery designers Robin Woodward and Ange Beever of Barbie’s Basement Jewellery, who kick ass with awesome designs that celebrate individual identity and popular culture in a handmade, accessible, wearable form.

Check out:
www.bbj.ca

Paige Gratland's Celebrity Lezbian Fists

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are in Toronto to talk with Paige Gratland about Celebrity Lezbian Fists- a limited edition series of silicone fists cast from the actual hands of famed and favorite queer cultural icons. The collection includes: jd samson * gb jones* eileen myles * shawna dempsey and lorri millan* cathy opie* cheryl dunye* phranc* jack halberstam* harmony hammond* and savoy "kapow" howe. Proceeds from the sale of this project will be donated to the triangle program, Canada's only classroom for lgbtti2qqap youth.
Check out:

Pgthingco.com
Artmetropole.com

http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/triangle/index.html

DoMs are also joined by DeAnne Smith who talks about how incredibly gay she is, and her upcoming shows.
http://www.deannesmith.com/

Moynan King's Toronto Beauty Salon

Mon, 26 May 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Toronto's Moynan King about her latest creation at Buddies in Bad Times. Open for business over the first two weeks of June, the Beauty Salon is part installation and part performance piece, an original style developed by Moynan King that blurs the line between audience and performer and sees theatre as an experiential rather than expositional medium.

DoMs also talk to Tanya Churchmuch of girlports.com, a website dedicated to lesbian travel and getting girls out and about. A regular contributor to Dykes on Mykes, Tanya tells all about her latest traveling adventures which includes a recent visit to NYC where she attended a Queer Women's Media conference, lesbian sheriff sightings in Dallas, and the not so lesbian Las Vegas.

Check out:

http://www.artsexy.ca/show.cfm?id=21

www.girlports.com

Annabelle Chvostek's Resilience

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Montreal's favorite singing and songwriting lesbian, Annabelle Chvostek drops by DoMs armed with tour anecdotes and her latest album, Resilience! DoMs also talk to Annie from Studio XX about the launch of Matricules: Canada's largest online archive of digital artwork by women.

Check out:

http://www.annabelle.org/

http://studioxx.org/en/matricules

CKUT Fundraising Drive !

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:00:00 -0500

It's that time of year again where Dykes on Mykes turn to our listeners to support community radio! With a plethora of prizes up for grabs, dig deep and give give give.

Lesbians on Ecstasy call in from Toulouse, France to pledge their support despite the one too many piece of cheesecake and bottles of wine.

DoMs also talk to Guerrila Gay Fare Halifax, a once a month party that takes over a carefully chosen straight bar for one night only. Think flashmob meets the French Revolution meets Kylie.

Check out:

http://ckut.ca/

http://lezziesonx.com/

http://guerillagayfarehalifax.blogspot.com/

Hip Hop extravoganza with Scream Club and D'Lo

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super excited and thrilled to talk to Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable from Scream Club- the amazing queer rap hip hop duo who will rock 2 shows here in Montreal. "Cindy and Sarah are two gaysymetrical superheroes who have come to spread the message of fun to queerions, hip hoppers, and rockers all over the world. They write love songs, political jams, and party songs, all with tight lyrics and killer hooks."> retarddisco.com

DoMs also talk to D'Lo- a Tamil, Sri Lankin-American political artist writer and theatre performer who was born gay and raised by hip-hop. Check out:

http://www.screamclub.com/
http://www.myspace.com/screamclub

http://www.dlocokid.com/

Wicked Queer parties Faggity Ass Fridays and Cruise Control

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:00:00 -0500

It's party time on DoMs with Nora from Faggity Ass Fridays, and Danielle from Cruise Control, 2 of the hottest parties for queers in town! Faggity Ass Fridays is a sustainable event put on by Head & Hands with queer-positive, trans positive and all around positive flair! Cruise Control is a queer dance party held on the first thursday of every month at 2109 bleury.

Tanya Churchmuch from girlports.com checks in with the hottest tips for lesbian travel.
Check out:

http://headandhands.ca/index_en.php

http://www.myspace.com/cruisecontrole

http://www.girlports.com/lesbiantravel/

Head and Hands and Allyson Mitchell

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:00:00 -0500

It's interview night on DoMs, and our first piece is a Head and Hands initiative, produced as part of a radio workshop at CKUT with 3 Montreal area high school students. The Sense Project trains high school students in sexual health issues and works with these students at implementing Sexual Education in their high schools as a response to the Education Reform in Quebec in 2003 that had Sex Ed cut from the curriculum.

Our second interview is with the fabulously talented Allyson Mitchell, a maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Since 1997, Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft.

Check out:
http://headandhands.ca/

http://www.allysonmitchell.com/

Ivan Coyote and Hot Hot Gossip

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are tickled pink to talk to the very charming Ivan Coyote about snow, writing, small town Ontario and whether or not to take the train in all of this snow! Ivan is performing at Edgy Women on March 14th, at 7pm and 9pm. An award-winning author of four collections of short stories and a renowned performer, Ivan Coyote's first love is live storytelling, and over the last twelve years she has become an audience favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer's festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam. Her first novel, Bow Grip, was released in the fall of 2006.

DoMs also talk to Val Desjardins, Marie-Eve Bertrand and Helena Marie Patte, the cast of Hot Hot Gossip which is a 6-part, live-theatre lesbian soap opera that centres around a dysfunctional queer female community where No doesn't mean No, it means LESBIAN DRAMA. Hot Hot Gossip is also part of the show with Ivan on March 14th as part of Edgy Women.

Check out:

www.ivanecoyote.com/
www.edgywomen.ca
www.daynarama.com

JD Samson of MEN

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

MC's back from Perth, which rocks, and talks to JD Samson from the road where she and Le Tigre pal Johanna Fateman take on the glam world of dj vibing in their brand new party duo, MEN. MEN are playing with HEY WILLPOWER on Sunday, March 2nd at Saints- Check it out!
DoMs also chat with American circus entertainer, writer and university professor Jennifer Miller who is presenting "How to make a political circus in 6 hours or less" at this year's Edgy Women Festival, a two-day workshop that will guide participants in the fine art of traditional circus skills including juggling, object balancing, basic solo and partner acrobatics, rolla-bolla, and rope spinning. Participants will then use these skills to make politically-based circus performance.

Check out:

MEN
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=166992000
http://www.saintsmontreal.com/

Jennifer Miller
www.edgywomen.ca
www.circusamok.org

Elisha Lim and Lesbian Dating tips

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to comic artist and musician Elish Lim from merry old England about her latest drawing series, 100 Butches, her music, and her Mom!
DoMs also try to sort out dating tips and tricks and give away 3 fabulous ticket prize packs to MEN (JD & JO de Le Tigre) + HEY WILLPOWER on Sunday, March 2nd at Saints, The Dead Dolls Cabaret at cafe cleopatra on February 23rd, and Slow Dance Night at Cagibi on February 17th.

Check out:

Elisha Lim
http://www.myspace.com/worldsmostelisha
http://www.artthreat.net/2008/01/100-butches-interview-elisha

MEN @ Saints
http://www.saintsmontreal.com/

Dead Doll Dancers
http://www.myspace.com/deaddolldancers

Slow Dance Party by Lickety Split
http://www.licketysplitzine.com/calendar.html#

The hilarious Julie Goldman and Youth Support Group, p10

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are tickled pink to have Katrina and Devon in from Project 10, a support group especially for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, queer, trans, two-spirit, and questioning youth. P10 is looking for donations and a temporary space! If you can help out, every dollar counts.

DoMs are also thrilled to talk to the hilarious Julie Goldman from The Big Gay Sketch Show and The Julie Goldman Celesbian Interviews Special. Julie is a wicked funny stand-up comic! We play her most rockin right to marry music video (the audio part), Commitment Ceremony! Too funny!

Check out:

p10.qc.ca

julie-goldman.com
www.logoonline.com

Lesbian Travels with Tanya Churchmuch

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Happy New Year!

DoMs are back after a holiday hiatus, talking to Tanya Churchmuch about Girlports.com, your passport to lesbian travel for globetrotters and locals. A website for lesbians and bisexual women, Girlports strives to entertain and inform visitors about travel and events of importance to lesbian and bisexual women, to provide a place for lesbian and bi women to share their travel experiences and to encourage these women to support lesbian communities around the world.

Check out:
www.girlports.com

DoMs do Gender !

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:00:00 -0500

In response to the growing debate around gender, feminism, medicalization, transgender identity, lesbian politics, censorship, Gendercator, "the binary", masculine vs male, butch vs trans, theory vs practice, trans as trend, chest surgery, entitled voices, privilege, LQBTQIA infighting, "real-life" living, name changes, sex changes, double mastectomy, plastic surgery, dick surgery, passing, failing to pass, construction, deconstruction, Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Bryson, Feinberg, name dropping, footnotes, anecdotes, and quotes, DoMs do a call-in/email-in show to see just exactly what we, as a community, think about GENDER.

Let us know what you think!
Write to us at: dom@nomorepotlucks.org
Check out:

http://brys.wordpress.com/

Jackie Gallant !

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Jackie Gallant joins DoMs to discuss her upcoming performance event, LAISSEZ-PASSER at Groupe Intervention Video on Thursday, December 6th at 7:30pm at 4001 Berri in Montreal. Jackie also delves deep into describing her practice, her process, and performing versus studio work.

DoMs also talk about some of the best flicks from Image+Nation.

Check out:
Groupe Intervention Video
http://www.givideo.org/

The Gendercator, Mommy Mommy, and Trish Salah

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Catherine Crouch, director of the controversial short, The Gendercator, that was pulled from the 2007 programming line-up of Frameline, San Francisco's International LGBT Film Festival about her film and how it came about.

DoMs also talk to Linda and Mona, subjects of Mommy, Mommy, a documentary that profiles the lesbian couple in their quest to legally adopt a child.

And finally, DoMs talk to Trish Salah, a moderator at image+nation: 20 _the past. present. future of LGBT culture+film, a workshop/conference that features six panels, three keynote addresses, and two screenings to celebrate the history and take stock of the queer film festival movement.

Check out:

The Gendercator
http://catherinecrouch.com
http://www.dramanonymous.com/v2/content/view/61/9/
http://www.dykediva.com/columnists/pulley_gendercator.php

Mommy Mommy

http://www.rezolutionpictures.com/english/doc_mommymommy.htm

Image+Nation

http://www.image-nation.org/2007/index-choix.php

The Cliks and Skidmore

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super thrilled to talk with The Cliks front man, Lucas Silveira who will be playing at Le Gymnase this Saturday, October 3rd at 8pm here in Montreal. Signed with mega label Warner, Lucas tells all about touring, traveling, inspiration, and the highs and lows of being a transgendered heart throb.

DoMs also talk with the fabulous Skidmore about her debut storytelling spoken word cd, A Shrinking Violent that she wrote in North Bali, next to a Mosque, behind a Hindu Monkey Temple, on a mosquito-fevered no-gods’ land.

Check out:

http://www.thecliks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thecliks

http://www.skidsofrenic.com/

Gretchen Phillips and Zoe Whittall

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs interview legendary lesbian, Gretchen Phillips who is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known for her humorous and polemical songs, often inspired by her own lesbianism. She has rocked it in bands like Girls in the Nose, Meat Joy, Two Nice Girls, and Phillips & Driver to name a few.

DoMs also speak with Zoe Whittall about her first novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts. Zoe is the author of two books of poetry: The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare, 2006) and The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan, 2001). She'll be giving a reading of her work on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 6 P.M. AT DÉPANNEUR CAFÉ, 206 BERNARD STREET WEST with Neil Smith and Jon Paul Fiorentino.

And finally, Mél takes a very special call from the newly relocated MC.

Check out:

http://www.gretchen-phillips.com/
http://www.queermusicheritage.us/aug2005.html

http://zoewhittall.blogspot.com/

Emily Carr live in studio!

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs welcome the incredibly charming Emily Carr who wows us with her songs live in studio!

Emily will be playing at the Shaika Cafe (5526 Sherbrooke Street West) on Dec 1st, 2007 at 21:00

Check out:

http://www.myspace.com/emilycarrmusic

The Unholy Harvest and Susie Bright Pt 2

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Don't have plans for your Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend? Why not head to our nation's capital for a bit o' bondage, bruising, and breakage? DoMs talk to our favorite contributor, Andrea Zanin about the Unholy Harvest, the first weekend for women of leather in over a decade. Featuring kink workshops, play parties, film screenings, and so much more, the Unholy Harvest will have you squealing "Who's your Daddy?" before you hit the door.

To register for the Unholy Harvest, and for more info, email: unholyharvest@yahoo.ca

Opening the show is Part 2 of the fabulously insightful talk Susie Bright gave at McGill University in March 1993. If you missed Part 1, be sure to download the September 10, 2007 podcast.

Check out:

unholyarmy.com
mrlt.com
www.susiebright.com

Susie Bright !

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs flash back to Part 1 of a fantastically insightful, funny, spot-on talk Susie Bright gave at McGill University in March 1993. Stay tuned for the next podcast to hear Part 2!

Susie Bright is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist.

Check out:

www.susiebright.com

Can-Con Music and Cornwall Pride

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are please to talk with Lori Taylor, President of Pride Cornwall who are celebrating their 4th year! Take the trip to Cornwall, it's not that far.

It's SOCAN time again, and that means that we're playing Canadian content to get our Canadian artists paid! SOCAN is an organization that administers the communication and performing rights of virtually the world's entire repertoire of copyright-protected music, when it is used in Canada.

Check out:
Cornwall Pride
www.pridecornwallfierte.com

SOCAN
www.socan.ca

Andrea Zanin's bi-bi Interview with a new Montreal Collective

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs favorite sexpert reporter Andrea Zanin talks to 3 fabulously bi ladies about their latest bisexually oriented Montreal collective, coming out as bi, and the trials and tribulations of being bi in the big city.

DoMs also have new guest host Françoise Doherty on to share her latest musical tracks and guest host with mél while Dayna shops in NYC and MC fishes in Nova Scotia.

Check out:

Andrea Zanin
www.sexgeek.wordpress.com

Welcome back mél, bin picks, and the fabulous Shelly Mars !

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs welcome back mél with open arms, give away super gay tickets to Divers/Cité's Lesbomonde and Meow Mix!
DoMs also try yet another Bin Pick, play wicked tunes and speak with actress, playwright, and shameless provocateur, Shelly Mars.

Check out:

Shelly Mars
www.shellymars.com

PERVERS/CITE and 1991 Sex Garage Riot special

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs speak with Josh from PERVERS/CITE about upcoming alternative Pride events that are sure to make you think about what it means to be LGBTQIA. The PERVERS/CITE organizing collective aim to oppose the queer community's total assimilation into mainstream kkkanadian culture, as well as foreground a local history of queer radicalism and social issues faced by queers today that are consistently glossed over by the gaystream media in favour of double-groom cakes and shopping holidays.

DoMs also play a very special flashback to 1991, the one year anniversary of the Sex Garage Riots featuring Deb VanSlet and Elizabeth Littlejohn. July 15th 1990 is regarded as a momentous date in Quebec Gay Rights history. When a group of overzealous Montreal police officers violently break-up the «Sex Garage» party in Old Montreal, a series of events unfold, in what is widely-held as Montreal’s version of the Stonewall Riots. That night 400 primarily gay, lesbian and transgender partiers are taunted, brutalized and arrested while trying to leave the party. Enraged and no longer willing to settle for unfair targeting, giant protests occur that same night and the night following outside MUC Station 25.

Check out:
PERVERS/CITE
http://perverscite.blogspot.com/

Head & Hands Sex Ed and Classic Annie Sprinkle

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Christina from Head & Hands’ about their latest initiative, "The Sense Project", a peer-to-peer, workshop based support system designed to provide high schools with comprehensive sexual education in light of the 2005 Quebec educational reform that essentially eliminated sexual education from the required curriculum at a time when the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were alarmingly high among Canadian youth.

DoMs also play a blast from the past interview with performance artist, prostitute/porn star turned Ph.D. sexologist, Annie Sprinkle from 1993 by Deb VanSlet!!

Check out:
www.headandhands.ca
Head and Hand mission is to work with youth and promote their physical and mental well being. Our approach is preventative, non-judgmental, and holistic with a fundamental commitment to providing an environment that welcomes youth without discrimination. We facilitate social change and the empowerment of youth based on their current needs within our community and society at large.

Annie Sprinkle
www.anniesprinkle.org

Archiving Art Special !

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Mel and MC are both away, leaving Dayna to hold the fort with Jackie Gallant (stepping in as guest host) who gives us her latest and greatest news on her work, her shows, the band (LOE), and working with both of our guests.
DoMs talk with Anne Golden, Creative Director of GIV (Groupe Intervention Video) about her MA thesis and latest video project in which she uses archiving to deconstruct a fictional Quebec Video centre as well as her views on dvd and other media formats. Nikki Forrest gives us the lowdown on her latest video project about failure, and her video portrait series documenting everyone she knows.

Check out:

GIV (Groupe Intervention Video)
http://www.givideo.org/

Jackie Gallant's All Dressed Trio
http://www.bandeapart.fm/

FtM voice training and the trans+queer prison experience

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Nora from Centre 2110 about their upcoming FtM (female-to-male)* voice training workshop, Demystifying the Voice: Finding Vocal Freedom & Creating your True Sound. This workshop presents the basics of vocal technique with a focus on the trans vocal experience. The goal is to introduce participants to the building blocks that create a healthy, well produced sound that is connected to your true personality.

DoMs also play an interview about trans+queer experience in prisons and prisoner solidarity organizing.
Check out: Centre 2110
http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/centre2110
centre2110@gmail.com
514.848.2424 xt 7431

Roller Derby Girls and King Size

Mon, 28 May 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Superstar guest host Andrea Zanin invites and interviews Heidi, aka Peter Panties, the captain of Montreal's roller dirby team Les filles du roi, for insight into the sport that combines miniskirts, fishnets, roller-skating and knocking out the other team to win points. Following this, Zanin speaks to 3 members of the drag troupe King Size: Billy King, Little Big Horn and Rod Screwheart, who share their passion for performance, tell us about their best moments on tour, and reveal how they came to be KING.

Film maker Nada Raphael and writer Nairne Holtz

Mon, 14 May 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Andrea Zanin steps in as guest DoM host for the month of May while M-C designs gardens in Nova Scotia and Dayna shocks Poland with her 21 tit salute.
Andrea talks to documentary film maker, Nada Raphael who speaks about her recent screening of "D'ici et d'ailleurs" at Ethnocultural day. This bilingual feature length film tells the tales of 9 women of colour/two-spirited living in or around Montréal.

DoMs are also pleased to have Nairne Holtz read from her latest book, "The Skin Beneath" in the second half of the show.

Legendary DoMs host Deb VanSlet !

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:00:00 -0500

CKUT's annual funding drive is in full swing, and to celebrate and generate funds, DoMs interview the incomparable Deb VanSlet, former DoM host for 16 years! Deb recounts the early days of DoMs, her most poignant interviews including an Annie Sprinkle moment, and discusses the importance of community radio.

To make a pledge to CKUT, visit: http://ckut.ca/fd_home_07.php
or call: 514.907.9424
There is no such thing as a small pledge- even $10 helps!

Annabelle Chvostek, Jordie Rosen and M.L.

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are tickled pink to have very special guests Annabelle Chvostek, Jordie Rosen and M.L. live in-studio for tunes, chit chat and good times.

DoMs also chat with Katherine Bateman, an organizer of the upcoming Study In Action Conference.

Lesbians on Ecstasy!!!

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are super stoked to have Lesbians on Ecstasy live in studio to talk about their many adventures on the road, and to celebrate the launch of their brand new album, We Know You Know. Fruity Frankie, Bernie Bankrupt, and Jackie the Jackhammer regale us with crazy band life, and the costumes they fight over...
DoMs also speak with Tara-Michelle Ziniuk about her newly published book of poetry, Emergency Contact.

Check out:

www.lezziesonx.com

Tara_Michelle Ziniuk
http://taramichelle.lrw.ca/en/tara.index.php

Rocking Out with DoMs, Mona Greembaum and the homophobia report

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs rock out with music, stories of lesbian parties, french pick-up lines as well as talk to Mona Greenbaum about the "RAPPORT DU GROUPE DE TRAVAIL MIXTE CONTRE L’HOMOPHOBIE", a rapport which tackles homophobia nationally.
Mona Greenbaum is a co-founder and organizer of the Lesbian Mothers Association (open to bi, trans, queer moms too!)

Check out:

Lesbian Mothers Association
http://www.aml-lma.org/

International Women's Day Violence and Edgy Women

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk to Dolores Chew from the 8th March Committee of Women of Diverse Origins about a violent attack that erupted during this year's International Women's Day March here in Montreal where male supporter, Jaggi Singh was attacked by police, and 3 women who tried to intervene sustained injuries.

The second half of DoMs features a lively discussion about Edgy Women; a 4-day event international festival that features over 50 neophyte and experienced artists in a diverse programme of cutting edge work which is both experimental AND entertaining. We are joined by organizer, Miriam Ginestier, performers Antonia Baehr (aka Werner Hirsch, aka Henry Wilde), and Tonja Livingstone.

Check out:

info on attack:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=200703092106118

Edgy Women
edgywomen.ca

Antonia Baehr
www.make-up-productions.net

L word special with a twist of trans

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are joined by M.L. and Rachel Michael for a heated discussion of all that is L Word- from Max, trans representation, and Jenny hate-ons, to the new boring Shane, the Papi sexual revolution, and bi-bi-phobia. DoMs also talk about the L Word's take on the war, the military, and "don't ask, don't tell."

We want to hear from you!
We'd like to hear from American listeners about what you think, as LGTQIA-ers, about the Iraq war
dom@nomorepotlucks.org

Mona Greenbaum, Val Desjardins, and the "lesbian bases"

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs welcome Mona Greenbaum, a LGBT activist and community organizer who is the coordinator and founder of the Lesbian Mothers Association. Make sure to stay tuned to Dyke on Mykes for the second part of this fantastic interview coming up in March, and check in with nomorepotlucks.org for complete transcriptions of these interviews.
DoMs are also joined by Val Desjardins, a multidisciplinary artist whose upcoming exhibition, "Coming Home" opens February 22nd at espace in Montreal. Val tells all about her intent with this collaborative show that features 9 other artists who all produced portraits of Val. After talking about her work, DoMs put her through the sports metaphor ringer to find out just what one could expect on a date with Val, and what exactly are the lesbian bases.

Check out:

Lesbian Mothers Association
http://www.aml-lma.org/

Val Desjardins
http://valdesjardins.com

Hey Little Sister

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs welcome very special guest activist, Janine Fuller, the long time manager of Little Sister's Bookstore in Vancouver and the co-author of Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial. She is a committed activist who has spent close to 20 years fighting to put an end to the censorship of gay and lesbian material, and to secure the rights of freedom of expression for all Canadians. Janine talks with us about the state of state censorship in Canada, and the recent court ruling that denied Little Sister's application for advance costs to continue its landmark litigation against Canada Customs.

DoMs also talk with Shelley Taylor who is the owner of Ottawa and Halifax based, education-oriented sex shop, Venus Envy. She talks to us about her Venus Envy experiences, methods of handling state censorship, and the Ottawa location's 6-year anniversary.

Check Out:

http://www.littlesisters.ca/
http://www.nomorepotlucks.org/news-societe/sad-day-for-little-sisters

http://www.venusenvy.ca/

Politics of the Heart

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with Nancy Nicol about her film, "Politics of the Heart" which is a moving portrait of lesbian and gay families who re-shaped the cultural and political landscape of Quebec by fighting for recognition of their relationships and their families.
DoMs also speak with Joanne Csete, The Executive Director of the HIV/AIDS Legal Network, about the Government's recent and disappointing report on Soliciation Laws in Canada, and the need for concrete changes in Government and public policy, to ensure the health, safety and human rights of sex workers in Canada.

Check out:

Nancy Nicol
http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary/POTH.html
http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/

Candian HIV/AIDS legal network
http://www.aidslaw.ca/

Sound Art Explosion and Ember Swift Interview

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are joined by Sound Artists Nancy Tobin and Jackie Gallant who will be performing at Galerie B-312 next Thursday, January 18th with new work that is sure to inspire. DoMs are also joined by Ember Swift for the lowdown on songwriting, touring, and her upcoming study in China about female singers.

Check out:
http://www.galerieb-312.qc.ca/html/act_tobin_galland.html

http://www.emberswift.com/dp_splash.php

Sarah Williams and Image+Nation post-review

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Sarah Williams joins DoMs to talk about her upcoming trilogy at Studio 303. Looking for a new challenge, Williams commissioned pieces from three very different artist creators whose work recently caught her attention: George Stamos, Eddie Ladd (Wales) and Nathalie Claude. The common starting point for the three commissions was the word, "gender".
In the second part of DoMs, all that is Image+Nation and LGBT film festivals in general is up for grabs and gabs with invited guests, Liz Miller, Jane Shulman, and Andrea Zanin. This insightful panel of Queer luminaries discuss their views on the festival, queer cinema, and where we're headed as queer audiences and image makers.

Check out:
Sarah Williams
http://www.studio303.ca/events_swilliams_e.html

www.image-nation.org
http://sexgeek.blogs.friendster.com/sex_geek/

Queer Zine Explosion

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs welcome the hilarious dyke comic, DeAnne Smith who shares her funny naughty bits much to our delight. DoMs also dive into the world of zines with Queer Zine Archive Project director, Chris Wilde live in studio from Milwaukee, and Robyn Maynard of Lickety Split Smut Zine.

Check out:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/030206/people.html

Queer Zine Archive Project http://www.qzap.org/v4/

Lickety Split smut zine

http://www.licketysplitzine.com/
http://licketysplitzine.blogspot.com/

Image+Nation Preview Special !

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs get an overview of Montreal's International LGBT Film Festival, Image+Nation with organizer extraordinaire, Katherine Setzer. We also read film reviews submitted by local Montreal lesbians who were lucky enough to sneak a peak of what's coming, and we discuss some of the festival highlights.

DoMs co-host Dayna McLeod phones it in from New York about MIX NYC, and we interview Keiran from Queer McGill about their upcoming Fruity Festival.

For more information, visit:
www.image-nation.org
www.queermcgill.ca

Lesbian Horror Stories !

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Celebrating Halloween DoMs style, we read very scary listener Lesbian Horror Stories and throw in a few of our own. Scary group therapy for everyone! We also read a choice selections of terrifying lesbian erotica... Spooky!

And, to top off the show, we speak with Ottawa's Caitlyn Pascal, a dj and organizer of Rock Out with Your Cock Out, a party project that includes a photo exhibition that explores the intersections of femininity, sexuality and the phallic symbol dedicated to women who rock out with their cock out, and people who love them.

Check out:

www.thetastates.com

The Slits !

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:00:00 -0500

:) DoMs punk out with a tribute show featuring an interview with the seriously hardcore punk matriarch Ari-Up from The Slits who will be playing at la Sala Rosa with L.O.E. and The Apes Sunday, October 29th.

:( Disappointed DoMs play Tribe 8 tunes instead of having an interview with Lynnee Breedlove who will be performing Lynnee's "One Freak Show" as the headlining show at the Meow Mix on Friday, October 27th at la Sala Rossa, and who will hopefully, join us on DoMs in the future...

Check out:

http://theslits.co.uk/
http://ariup.com/

http://www.lezziesonx.com/
http://www.tribe8.com/
http://www.lynnbreedlove.com/

http://www.lezzeppelin.com/

Happy Thanksgiving with DJ Mini and L.O.E.

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs are joined by DJ Mini who spins tunes and talks about her new album, Audio Hygiene which is in stores now!

We're also joined by L.O.E.'s Bernie Bankrupt and Fruity Frankie, aka Lynne T., who talk about recording their new album, playing a recent Pop Montreal show, Bernie's appearance as a female music aficionado amongst a sea of cock rock jocks, and everything autumnal.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Be sure to check out:

http://www.lezziesonx.com/

http://www.djmini.com/

Shawna Dempsey and Lesbian Oldies but Goodies !

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs keep transfabulous Joey Hateley from CKUT's previous show, Queercore for just enough time to give us the low down on A. Gender, a multimedia extravaganza chalked full of gender bending fun appearing at Montreal's LGBT Harvest Festival.

DoMs also interview Shawna Dempsey from the amazing Canadian collaborative performance duo, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan about their brand-new upcoming piece in Montreal as part of Studio XX's 10th anniversary.

And finally, DoMs take a peek into the Westcoast Gathering and Conference of Lesbians 50 Years & Older. Check your ageist angst at the door!

Check out:

Joey Hateley, Trans Action Theatre Co., creator of, A. Gender
Manchester, England.
Delving deep into one of the last remaining taboos in our society … Boys can be girls. Girls can be boys. Men can be women. Women can be men. Or can they? Mixing experimental theatre, movement, video and photography this is a not so topical, yet very topical one-person show about female masculinity and the politics of identity. Bold and unconventional.
http://uk.geocities.com/jasonelvis@btinternet.com/TFparticipants/joey.html

Studio XX:
http://www.studioxx.org/newsletter/evenX.html

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan:
http://fingerinthedyke.ca/

Westcoast Gathering and Conference of Lesbians 50 Years and Older:
http://www.soundsandfuries.com/gathering.html

DoMs Go Back to School: Part Deux

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs continue our interview with Halifax phys. ed. teacher, Lindsay Willow (see DoMs Go Back to School ! podcast, 2006/08/28). Our discussion includes creating LGBT youth organizations, how much her students helped her during her case, and general warm hugs all around about LGBT youth!

DoMs also talk trash about South of Nowhere, a teen show on America's The N channel that features a lez plot as it's main story-line! Go Gay!

Also, MC is back from Halifax, and we're joined by Jackie Gallant

Check out Montreal LGBT youth support:

http://www.headandhands.ca/
http://www.gris.qc.ca/
http://www.p10.qc.ca/
http://www.algi.qc.ca/asso/jlambda/

Check out Halifax resources:

http://www.youthproject.ns.ca/
http://www.humanrightstribunal.zoomshare.com/
http://www.youthproject.ns.ca/pennies.htm

DoMs Go Back to School !

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs find out all there is to do for queers, activists, anarchists, and all of those in between September 2 thru 4 at this year's 11th annual alternative McGill orientation. Radical Frosh is jammed packed with activities, workshops and shows like white water rafting, vegan lunches, surrealist subversions, and a concert at the Sala Rosa featuring Lesbians on Ecstasy and Sister Suvi.

Radical Frosh info: http://www.ssmu.ca/qpirg/radicalfrosh/

DoMs also get all bent out of shape over Halifax phys. ed. teacher, Lindsay Willow's story of homophobic persecution by a fellow teacher and principal at Halifax West High School in 2000. Lindsay talks about how she was falsely accused of having a sexual relationship with a student, and her successful battle to clear her name and reputation at great emotional and financial expense through the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, and about how her students and fellow teachers lent their support.

Check out:

http://www.humanrightstribunal.zoomshare.com/

http://www.youthproject.ns.ca/pennies.htm

http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-willow20060510.html

18th International Two Spirit Gathering

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with Two Spirit Gathering organizer Natalie Lloyd about the upcoming event held in the Quebec Laurentians September 25th to 30th, that is open to all Aboriginal people who identify as two spirit, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, intersexed, trans-gendered or trans-sexual, as well as their partners and children.

This episode also features an interview with the all-female pop band, Sister Funk by DoMs correspondent Marni Kellison.

Be sure to check out:

2spiritgathering2006.bravehost.com

www.sisterfunk.com

www.myspace.com/marniandmelissa

Montreal Pride Special with DJ Mini !

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with the ever-wicked DJ Mini, who will be featured at this year's Lesbomonde, the big and badass lesbian party at Montreal's Diverscite. With tunes from bands playing Diverscite's Sex Garage stages, this episode also features guest hosts Jackie "The JackHammer" and Veronique Mystique from our favorite band, Lesbians on Ecstasy.

Be sure to check out:

DJ Mini: www.djmini.com
DJ Mini Mirror cover story: http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/072706/dc3.html

Diverscite: www.diverscite.org

OutGames: www.montreal2006.org
Eleanor Brown's Fab magazine article on the Out Games: http://www.fabmagazine.com/features/296/outgames.html

Lesbians on Ecstasy: www.lezziesonx.com AND http://myspace.com/lezziesonx

DoMs Shop 'til You Drop to your knees

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:00:00 -0500

DoMs talk with lesbian fashionista Amy Skinner, who is launching Boutique Mad-Âme- Montreal's first lesbian-focused clothing store in the heart of the gay village! What will you be wearing?

DoMs also talk with SM, fetish and human sexuality educator and writer, Midori, about Bondage, Scene Scenarios, Sexy Whips, Interrogation and Military Scenes, and Seduction by Voice & Erotic Story Telling- all topics of her upcoming workshops through www.attitudes.cc

The always fabulous Jackie Gallant guest co-hosts.

Check out: www.mad-ame.ca

Abigail Lapell: Live!

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:00:00 -0500

With a haunting voice that is sure to knock your socks off, DoMs chat with Montreal songstress Abigail Lapell who also plays live in studio! DoMs also speak with Keenan Pinder from flyingtrannys.com to hear all about their Canada wide Trans Cycling Odessy to raise funds and awareness to celebrate the life of Alexandria Tucker, a trans woman born in St John's, Newfoundland, and who died in Victoria, British Columbia. This project is aimed to raise trans awareness, and suicide prevention information and support, throughout Canada.

Local musician Marni Kellison guest co-hosts and discusses her visit with Canadian folk legend, Penny Lang.

Check out:
Abigail Lapell:
http://myspace.com/abigaillapell
http://www.abigaillapell.com/

Marni Kellison:
http://myspace.com/marniandmelissa

Penny Lang:
www.pennylang.com

Flying Trannys:
www.flyingtrannys.com

Can I hear a Bisexual "B" ?

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Favorite DoMs contributor Andrea Zanin talks frankly about the politics of bisexuality and her upcoming attendance at The 9th International Conference on Bisexuality, Gender, and Sexual Diversity this weekend in Toronto. DoMs are also joined by Projet Polyvlence who will also be at the conference, and their study about the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS for people who have sexual relations with both men and women.

Andrea Zanin is a leader, organizer, educator and writer within Montreal’s queer, polyamory and BDSM communities, as well as being an active trans ally.
Check out her Sex Geek blog: http://sexgeek.blogs.friendster.com/sex_geek/

For more info on Projet Polyvlence: http://polyvalence.ca

For more info on the conference: www.9icb.org

Montreal's OutGames clean-up

Mon, 29 May 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Stella's Jen Clamen and Eleanor Brown discuss Montreal's OutGames, how it impacts the community, and the proposed "clean-up"- and we're not talking about a few coats of paint...
Stella is a Montreal-based sex worker’s rights organization that “favours empowerment and solidarity by and amongst sex workers, since we are committed to the idea that each of us has a place in society, and human rights worth defending”.
www.chezstella.org

Eleanor Brown's blog, www.OpinionatedLesbian.com was created to encourage thoughtful discussion within our vast community- check it out!

Interviews with Wailin' Jennys Annabelle Chvostek and playwright Amy Barratt

Mon, 22 May 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Wailin' Jennys Annabelle Chvostek gives us a sneak preview of their new album, "Firecracker" coming out in June, and plays some of her own songs live, in-studio, much to our delight. We also speak to playwright Amy Barratt who proclaims her love for musicals and community theatre in her upcoming one women show, "No Lesbians in Musical Theatre".

Dykes on Mykes Spring Fling !

Mon, 08 May 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Featuring interviews with guests, queer speed dating organizer, Lina Beaudin and sex columnist Sasha on the how-tos and how-not-tos in the wild world of dyke dating.

Interviews with the creators of Lickety Split smut zine

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Featuring interviews with Lickety Split smut zine creator, Amber Goodwyn and contributing artists, Anita Schoepp and Evie Farmer including a hot reading by Evie of one of her pieces.

Interviews with Judith Halberstam and Paperwall organiser, Leila Pourtavaf

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Featuring an interview with Judith Halberstam by DoM correspondent Andrea Zanin, and we talk to exhibition organizer, Leila Pourtavaf about the Paperwall:analYZING IMAGES exhibition on at la centrale gallerie powerhouse in Montreal. This multimedia exhibition of queer art works features over 20 contemporary and emerging queer artists and activists from across North America.

L Word special !!!

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Dykes on Mykes and invited guests, M.F. and LOE's Bernie Bankrupt dish the dirt on Queer's favorite lesbian soap opera, the L Word...