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Dana Morrigan Sings in Her Own Voice

July 1, 2021 Suzie Sherman podcast 01:26:58
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    Dana Morrigan on a stage in an orange dress, holding a mic on a stand, her hair illuminated green by the stage lights.

    Photo credit: Tristan Crane, from their series Here Portraits.
    hereportraits.com

    Today, I talk with Dana Morrigan, wonderful human, wry wit, queer nonbinary transfeminine spoken word artist, writer, performer, and epic karaoke host! It’s about her quest for self-knowledge across many parts of her life: in her cultural affiliations, in her work, in her relationships, in her gender and sexuality, in finding her creative callings. And the through-line is really that the process of finding ourselves is lifelong, and, if you’re doing it right, you can help other people find themselves, too.

    We talked about: growing up in the Catskills of the ‘60s and ‘70s; identifying with cultural outlaws like Tiny Tim and Harpo Marx, and identifying with genderfluid and sexually free hippie culture; we talked comedy and improv; performance; writing, both creatively and professionally; copywriting; the demands of academia; heteronormative relationship expectations; gender and sexual discovery; finding the language to better understand oneself; the lifelong project of integrating one’s sense of self and belonging; finding and creating community; queer and trans performance; queer open mic; karaoke…and so many other things!

    Find Dana!
    Karaoke With Dana on Facebook
    @KaraokeWithDana on Instagram and
    @KaraokeWithDana on Twitter

    References: 

    Henny Youngman
    wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Youngman

    Tiny Tim
    wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(musician)

    Melville’s Bartleby, The Scrivener
    wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener

    Walter Sobchak doesn’t roll on Shabbos
    youtube.com/watch?v=KmULYr1nsZ0

    Bob and Ray radio shows
    wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Ray

    One of the main open mic events Dana performed at was The SF Queer Open Mic. They no longer hold events, but you can still find the community on Facebook
    facebook.com/SFQueerOpenMic
    And at the SF Queer Open Mic archive
    queeropenmic.com

    Dana also participated in the Fresh Meat Festival of Trans and Queer Performance 
    freshmeatproductions.org

    El Rio in San Francisco
    elriosf.com

    Glen Campbell performing “Rhinestone Cowboy”
    youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U

    Johnny Cash performing “A Boy Named Sue,” written by the great Shel Silverstein
    youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4

    At the very end of the episode, I referenced “Rogerian,” i.e., Carl Rogers’ psychotherapeutic approach, which informed non-directive play therapy. This was when Dana and I were talking about the therapeutic effects for queer and trans folks being in karaoke community. The history of this modality, though, preceded Rogers and was expanded later by Virginia Axline. Here’s a brief history of the modality
    bapt.info/play-therapy/history-play-therapy

    Thank you to ALL my patrons for making this podcast happen, and for making it better! A special shout out to all my Failure & Redemption level patrons: Lisa, Marck, Kurt, Bonita, Barry, Amy, Heather, Noah, Jeannie, and Jen, AND, to my Serendipity level patrons: Dorian, Brittany, Steve & Cyndi, Micharelle, Jodi, and Kristi!

    Additional music in this episode
    TRG Banks – excerpt from “Evening Journey,” used under a CC0 1.0 public domain license. 
    Find his music at Bandcamp
    trgbanks.bandcamp.com/music

    Anthem of Rain – excerpt from “Adaptation,” used under a CC BY 4.0 license.
    Find their music at the Free Music Archive
    freemusicarchive.org/music/anthem-of-rain

    Tintamare – excerpt from “Propane,” used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license
    Find their music at Bandcamp
    tintamare.bandcamp.com

    And sound effects by
    jackjames_tomknevItt – Zip dot Wav, used under a CC BY 3.0 license
    Find their audio on FreeSound
    freesound.org/people/jackjames_tomknevitt/sounds/209489

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    The banana peel is by Max Ronnersjö
    maxronnersjo.tumblr.com

    The theme and interstitial music is by Jon Schwartz
    twitter.com/schwartstack

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