Press – Charm City Kitty Club

BmoreArt.com: Review of Sister’s Quimm [April 2016]
“It’s really powerful for me as a younger person to see how long they’ve kept their community vital, and I can only hope that any of the things I’m involved in back home will still be giving queers a space to express themselves a decade from now.”

ColorLines.com: Art and Activism in Charm City: Five Baltimore Collectives That Are Facing Race [November 2012]
“. . . A communally run queer cabaret, the collective has for years provided spaces for queer artists and performers to show off their style and challenge the status quo . . .”

City Paper: 10th Anniversary Feature of the Kitty Club [June 13, 2012]
“. . . the Kitty Club endures, in part because there’s nothing else like it: a safe, accepting space for gay/trans/whatever-you-got women putting out creative, provocative, political performances. And in part because it’s just so damned much fun.”

City Paper: The People Behind the Charm City Kitty Club Talk About Politics, Art, and Freaking People Out [June 2005]
“. . . Butches and femmes, andro dykes and baby butches, pre-, post-, and no-op transgendered and polyamorous, queer breeders and glamour butches, lipstick lesbians and diesel dykes, welcome to the Charm City Kitty Club . . . a boldly ambitious cultural laboratory that dissects contemporary gender theory and identity politics with a seriously unserious silly streak . . .”

Curve Magazine: Pretty Kitties [May, 2005]
“Charm City Kitty Club deftly accomplishes these goals, showcasing first-time performers alongside seasoned veterans; creating a lesbian-centered space while featuring a number of performers who run a range of genders and sexual orientations; and presenting serious, often emotionally wrenching material alongside slapstick striptease and eclectic music.”

Washington Blade: Girls’ (and boys’) night out [January 2005]
“Not only do we have lesbians and gay men on stage, but we even have very queer straight people on stage and in the audience.”

Gay Life: The Very ‘Dyke-ilicious’ Charm City Kitty Club [January 21, 2005]
“Well, of course, we set out to change both the Baltimore queer scene and the Baltimore art scene and the landscape is looking a little different these days, so conquest of the world isn’t far off.”