Wendy Delorme (born 28 July 1979)[1] is a writer, performance artist,[2] actress, and LGBT activist.[3]
Wendy Delorme | |
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 Delorme photographed by Daria Ivanova, 2018 | |
| Born | 28 July 1979 |
| Pen name | Wendy Babybitch, Klaus Engel |
| Occupation | writer, translator, actor, performance artist |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Genres | feminism |
| Literary movement | sex-positive |
As a writer, Delorme published 4 novels in French, "Quatrième Génération" (Grasset, 2007), "Insurrections! en territoire sexuel" (Ed. Au Diable Vauvert 2009), "La Mère, la sainte et la putain" (ed. Au Diable Vauvert, 2012), and "Le Corps est une chimère" (Ed. au Diable Vauvert, 2018)
As a performance artist, she goes by the stage names Wendy Babybitch and Klaus Engel, as part of the neo-burlesque theater groups The Kisses Cause Trouble, The Drag King Fem Show, the Cabaret des Filles de Joie and the Queer X Show.[4]
Going under the rubrique of performeuse in her one-woman shows near the racy Pigalle section of Paris, Delorme performs a hyper-exaggerated form of "femininity" as a male drag performer might, which harkens back to theoretical constructs such as "doing gender" or "gender performance" of Judith Butler.[5]
About her performances, Delorme said, "In the morning or in the evening, in my bathroom, I reinvent myself, I become a woman, and that is not biological, it is more a question of belief.[6]
Works
edit- "Quatrième génération", (Fourth Generation) Grasset, novel, 2007.
- "Insurrections ! En territoire sexuel", (Insurrections! In Sexual Territory) Au Diable Vauvert, essay, 2009[7] · .[8]
- (dir.) "In-soumises : contes cruels au féminin", avec Gala Fur, (Unsubmissive: Cruel Stories, a la feminine) La Musardine, 2012.
- "La Mère, la sainte et la putain", (Mothers, Saints, and Whores), Au Diable Vauvert, novel, 2012.
- "Le Corps est une chimère", Au Diable Vauvert, novel, 2018.
- "Viendra le temps du feu", Cambourakis, novel, 2021.
Translations
edit- Le Petit guide de la sexualité épanouie (The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written) de Cathy Winks et Anne Semans, trans. with Sandrine Bodet, éditions Tabou, 2009.
- Déséquilibres synthétiques (Will Work for Drugs) by Lydia Lunch, trans. with Virginie Despentes, Au Diable Vauvert, 2010.
Filmography
edit- The final girl, experimental fiction, by Todd Verow, 2010.
- Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts, A Queer X Show at IMDb, documentary by her and Émilie Jouvet, 2010.
- Les travailleu(r)ses du sexe at IMDb [The Sex Workers], 2009. documentary about her
- Louis(e) de Ville, portrait d'une bad girl at IMDb 2012. documentary about her
- Ce soir (ou jamais!) at IMDb [Tonight (or Never!)] 2007. documentary about her
See also
editNotes and references
edit- ^ Notice d'autorité personne : Wendy Delorme, BnF, accessed 2012-06-15 (in French)
- ^ Julie Girard, « Wendy Delorme : "C'est mes tripes et je tricote avec" », poptronics.fr, 3 August 2009 (in French)
- ^ Marie-Claude Martin, « Tant de femmes en elle », Le Temps, 23 October 2010 (in French).
- ^ Delorme, Wendy (8 August 2011). "La pudeur se situe parfois dans des zones inattendues" [Modesty Sometimes Is Found In Unexpected Places]. NouvelObs.com (Interview). Féministes en tous genres (in French). Interviewed by Sylvie Duverger.
- ^ Berger, Anne Emmanuelle (1 December 2013). "2 Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in "America"". The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender. Fordham University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8232-5385-2. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ Delorme, Wendy (31 October 2007). Quatrième génération [Fourth Generation]. Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-73159-7.
- ^ Anne Delabre, « Wendy Delorme sur tous les fronts », Têtu, 20 March 2009 (in French).
- ^ Nicolas G., « "Insurrection !"
External links
edit- Delorme, Wendy (8 August 2011). "La pudeur se situe parfois dans des zones inattendues" [Modesty Sometimes Is Found In Unexpected Places]. NouvelObs.com (Interview). Féministes en tous genres (in French). Interviewed by Sylvie Duverger.
- Delorme, Wendy (15 December 2012). "The Words of the Flesh". La Clé des Langues. Lyon: ENS LYON/DGESCO. ISSN 2107-7029. Retrieved 10 November 2015.