damn okay giving the people what they want !

Butchlalis de Panochtitlan - 'The Butch Stars of Pussyland' (2002-2010), Los Angeles based queer performance ensemble mapping what it means to be butch, queer, and latino.

Butchlalis de Panochtitlan is a sketch-driven performance ensemble that maps Los Angeles on racialized female masculine bodies, as both characters and caricatures. The BdP are not drag kings, but butch dykes/transgender butches/genderqueer speaking subjects that are not trying to pass as men; instead, the BdP explore the in-between space of female biology and testerone-taking transexuality and the identities and neighborhoods these subjects claim and are claimed by. Their bodies of work include themes of home belonging, queer family, butch-femme relations, brown butch socialities and aesthetics.

Queer meets punk meets Chicano history meets all kinds of identity politics by Butchlalis de Panochtitlan. Mari Garcia, Raquel Gutierrez and Claudia Rodriguez make up Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, a theater outfit that styles itself as "genderqueer" and "multi-genre margin walkers." They weave through a gallery of real and fictional characters and seminal moments in Eastside L.A. Chicano life—especially centered on the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, the rise of the gay civil rights movement and the early days of the Reagan administration. Proudly butch, the members of BdP redefine "macha."

The Sonoran desert, Arizona

Work on your car

Busk near the subway

Call up an old flame

Roll your own cigarettes

Eat at a greasy spoon

Tell creepy stories

Visit a carnival

Buy shoe polish from a woman near a creek

Confront the face on the backside of your head

Create an instrument from what you can find in a dumpster

Create an instrument out of your own voice by making hissing sounds

Call God out over the misery He has visited upon the world

learn to play accordion

sell bullfrogs to a circus geek

get a tattoo using a cassette motor and guitar string

open a tiny little bookie joint

visit New Orleans

order your eggs over-medium or scrambled

feel like a preacher waving a gun around

go Out West

make it rain

leave Waukegan at the slammin’ of the door