Vaginal Davis is an American intersex-born, genderqueer performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis' name is a homage to activist Angela Davis. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Davis became well known in the 1980s in New York City. She currently resides in Berlin.
Life and career
1970–1989: Career beginnings
Vaginal Davis' band the Afro Sisters released their first seven-inch EP Indigo, Sassafras & Molasses, produced by Geza X, on Amoeba Records in 1978. The Afro Sisters opened for the Smiths on their first American tour, as well as the Happy Mondays.
Vaginal Davis is often associated with the formation of the Queercorezine movement. From 1982 to 1991, she self-published the zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson.Bruce LaBruce described the zine as "an underground rag that featured SoCal punk scene gossip, photos of hot Huntington Beach surfers and wistful musings by Miss Davis herself." Davis' job at UCLA's Placement & Career Planning Center allowed her free access to a Xerox machine to publish the zine.
Good morning. Where Labour once had a D.Ream, it now says that our long national nightmare is … not over ...Ukraine ... But, asks SirinKale, is the organisation’s focus on vaginal births putting women in danger? Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters.
"We met dads who had — the man you saw right there ... Well, they didn't listen ... But a 2019 study on abortion reversals at the University of California-Davis had to be shut down after three of the 12 women were taken to the hospital for vaginal bleeding ... .
. This might make her an unlikely candidate to honor O’Connor’s often personal and poetic songs ... Towering passion ... A descriptor sometimes used is “drag terrorist,” which comes from multidisciplinary artist Vaginal Davis, a friend and inspiration.
Terrisa Davis lost her mother to cervical cancer. Davis said she and a lot of women in her ... Now, I’m focused on my own vaginal health, and my doctors talk to me about uterine cancer more,” said Davis.
... explore Indigeneity in relation to the body; grainy videos capture '90s-era performances by experimental punk band Cholita!, which featured Vaginal Davis as lead vocalist and Alice Bag on guitar.
This evidence instead definitively shows that [Andrade] sexually assaulted the victim in this case insofar as the DNA found on the vaginal swab was a match to the Petitioner’s DNA …,” SpecialAssistant Attorney GeneralJudyDavis wrote.
Other overtly political works include Vaginal Davis’s The White to Be Angry (1999), which remains as urgent and relevant a film as it was two decades ago, in particular the central narrative of a ...
But the woman had given birth vaginally two times after that surgery, and, again, she was very much in labor. A repeat C-section, Fineberg thought, would be a bigger risk to the woman’s health than a vaginal birth.
In 2017, a year after the company’s founding, Neuralink and University of California signed an agreement to test the company’s brain chip at UC Davis’s primate center in exchange for just under $800,000.
Like a paper doll’s accouterments in a quirky dialog with surrealism, Noot’s exploration of queer and Midwestern identity is at once wholesome and subversive, fantastical and funny, pointed and poignant ...Dakota Noot ... L.A. WEEKLY ... Vaginal Davis ... Web ... IG ... .
‘Vaginal Davis... “MachaFamilyRomance” by Vaginal Davis features paintings on paper made of beauty creams, tonics, oils, varnishes and other products meant for the body ... Kenturah Davis’ residency ...
Rhiannon Stanton-Davies (right) pressed for the inquiry following the death of her daughter, Kate, who died after problems emerged during labour at a remote midwife-led unit ... Mrs Stanton-Davies said.
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“We would play a show in Detroit and I’d get to meet Mick Collins from the Gories; we’d play a show in Berlin and talk to Vaginal Creme Davis – the queer performer who appears on the anthology cover,” she says.
Hastings Tribune
29 Aug 2023
Hastings Tribune
29 Aug 2023