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Short Bio [long bio here]

Hadassah Hill is a Brooklyn-based queer writer, creative, and activist who goes public under the name Axon "Damien" D'Luxe. She is a repatriated expat by way of Toronto, DIY tech geek, and working-class gone hustling-class high femme fatale who's been onstage for over 13 years. She loves anything on two wheels and rhinestones.

D'Luxe's electrotext has been curated & performed all over North America, including at the HOT!Festival, Radical Queer Semaine, Writing Outside the Margins, Queeruption 10, Sista'hood, Femme 2008 & Femme 2006, the Radar series, at Ladyfests, at Mayworks and the Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times; at universities, her own shows, in cabarets, and with the now-retired all-femme troupe, Trash & Ready.

She has been published in anthologies and magazines, and has two self-published albums out: Ice-9 [2009] and Bad Girls Belief System, 2005; she co-produced Bombshell Lexicon with Trash & Ready in 2005.

She is a co-founder of the NYC Femme Family, a femme community group, and of the H[art] Collective, a queer art collective in Brooklyn. From 2006-2009 she Art Directed of the award-winning $pread Magazine, a quarterly magazine by and for people in the sex industry and their allies.

She has worked in independent print, web, theater and audio production for 10 years, and is committed to creating representations of the diverse communities she embodies using self-taught multimedia techniques, and to skill-sharing with others - she is completing an MFA in DIY by teaching no/low-cost multimedia strategies and is committed to empowering individuals to speak for themselves using new technologies.

She also makes textile artist using embroidery, antique and vintage fabrics, costumery and recycling vintage clothing,

Lastly, she made her blue film debut in the 2003 dyke porn Pornograflix, and was an Aslan Leather model. And she used to do burlesque before she realised that saying the words too, made her happier!

Dear internet user,

Axon NYE '09We can't actually be close because you don't really know me. But maybe if you looked at my bio, upcoming and recent show info, and a performance CV we might be able to work something casual out. Then again, you could creep me on facebook or even send me an email. I guess it's up to you.

xo, D'Luxe

Performances, Teaching, Speaking

2010
  • Performance: Jan 14, NY, NY - Heavy Touching, 8-10pm @ The Delancey. This is an opening event for PussyFaggot, and a video of on of my pieces is here.

    • 2009
  • Dec 31 - New York: The Femme Family New Years' Eve party!
  • Dec 10 - Sex Workers' Rights Are Human Rights!! Performing Femmes Fight Back at International Human Rights Speak-In @ NYU
  • Dec 10 - TRISHA at It's All Wrong But It's Alright, 10pm Niagara -112 Ave A @ 7th st.
  • Dec 3 - NYC: Reading at Brother, My Lover, with RYAN MAY, DEVON GALLEGOS, LONELY CHRISTOPHER and DANIEL MCKERNAN. Curated by Robert Smith.
  • Nov 23 - New York: The Femme Family presented Speaking of Femme III: Coming Out Stories at Bluestockings Bookstore.
  • Nov 13-15 - Austin: The Austin Femme Mafia is co-organizing Femme Camp, gathering powerhouse femmes from all over the country to plan revolution femme style! All femmes welcome, registration necessary.
  • Nov 8 - Brooklyn: The Hart Collective hostesses The Hot Pink Mass and Femmes Fight Back. Email for directions/details.
  • Oct 24 - Brooklyn: Pay As You Go is an evening of sex-worker and ally videos, curated by Audacia Ray and Sarah Jenny. I'll be on a panel and my new video will be showing there as well.
  • Oct 21 - Toronto: the World Premiere of my newest video, Workin Girl Blues, will be at Whores on Top, part of Granny Boots at The Gladstone.
  • Brooklyn Oct 10 - performing at Bevin Brandlandingham's Zombie Cabaret
  • Brooklyn Sept 26 - Hostessing a FEMME REVIVAL! Including an all-animal print photo shoot and participating in the return home of the Femmes Fight Back Installation!
  • Touring: July 25 - Sept 4: Femmes Fight Back Roadtrip
  • San Francisco Aug 14: Homo a GoGo film screeming curated by Silas Howard is showing Craigslist.
  • Montreal Aug 13: Perver/Cité is showing Gaybomb! as part of Coral Short's Kino night.
  • Montreal July 26 - performing the Hot Pink Mass at Faux Pas Cabaret
  • NY, NY, July 17. Dixon Place: performing the Hot Pink Mass at HOT! n Heavy for the HOT! Festival.
  • New York, June 6 @ Stonewall: Performing/Co-hostessing the Femme Family Coming Out Party.
  • New York, June 3: Co-hostessing Speaking Of Femme 2: NYC's Femme Family reading + open mic @ Bluestockings.
  • New York, April 29: Reading at the New York Femmethology launch @ Bluestockings, 7pm.
  • Brookyln, April 17: performing at Pantyhos dance party.
  • New York, April 11: Anarchist Book Fair - speaking with the Hart Collective on DIY Media Production
  • Toronto, ON, April 4: Gaybomb international music video premiere at Trigger Festival
  • Montreal, March 13: Performing at the Monster Bash dance party for Radical Queer Semaine.
  • NYC, March 4: Speaking Of Femme: NYC Femme Family reading + open mic @ Bluestockings, 7p. Fetaured readers include Bevin Brandlandingham, Sassafrass Lowry and me.

    • Choose Your Own Tour, Feb/March 09: Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, Montreal and Toronto! I went around the west and gulf coasts and the canadian NE recording stories, giving lectures, and making new friends.

  • Feb 27/09, Austin TX: Speaking about my MFA in DIY program at UT Austin's Performance Studies Department.
  • Feb 28/09, Austin TX: Performing and co-hosting a special daytime CampCamp - DayCamp - at the Vortex. Open stage performances!
  • Feb 13, 09: Evergreen State, WA - Speaking on sex worker rights at Red Vaughn Tremmel's Sexuality and Gender studies class.

  • NYC, Jan 27: Reading at Vittoria Repetto's Women's Poetry Jam at Bluestockings.
  • NYC, Jan 25: Performing from Ice-9 at the Anonymous Party
  • Hart Collective New Year's Party!, Jan 01, 2009

    • 2008

    Grassroots Media Justice Tour, October 16-22, 2008. I had the pleasure of touring with Jordan Flaherty from Left Turn and Brother Jesse Muhammad from The Final Call newspaper.

  • San Antonio, TX @ Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
  • Austin, TX @ Space 12 with Skillshare Austin and performing at Monkeywrench Books
  • Houston, TX @ Rice University for the Independent Media Convergence
  • Denton, TX @ JJs Pizza

    • Oct 11/08 NYC, LES @ Le Petit Versaille: The Exquisite Witness Project was performed in a magical outdoor garden. Can you close the circuit?

    8/24/08 T.O. @ Writing Outside the Margins festival of queer literary arts.

    8/16/08 Chicago @ Femme 2008 Conference Cabaret - performing and teaching!

    7/17/08 Chicago @ Desiree Alliance Conference - speaking about independent media

    March 29.08 Boston @ Women, Action & the Media Conference: Teaching a workshop on DIY media th the Hart Collective.

    Feb 23.08 NYC @ Fat is Contagious Conference: Taking hotfatty portraits with the Hart Collective, and performing at the cabaret that evening at Rapture Cafe 2007

    Dec 7.07 Bklyn, NY - Gaybomb Video Shoot Party

    Nov 4.07 Toronto, ON - $pread Magazine Launch @ Goodhandy's

    August 7 - SAN FRANCISCO Radar Hosted by Michelle Tea - SF Main Library
    This Radar features Michael Chorost, Myriam Gurba, Damien Luxe and Alejandro Murguia.

    August 3 - VANCOUVER @ Queeruption 10!

    August 1 - SEATTLE Wildrose - Mad Science Cabaret

    July 29 - SEATTLE Bent Writing Institute
    Workshop: teaching DIY audio & promotion for independent writers/performers

    July 22 - SAN FRANCISCO SWFAF Lick My Kitty Cabaret

    July 19 - SAN FRANCISCO Desiree Alliance
    Workshop: teaching independent media making with Serena Noir

    May 4/07 - Featured Reader at Limbo [Brooklyn, NY]

    March 19/07 - Featured performer at The Science of Sexy Cabaret [Seattle]

    March 16/07 - Featured performer at the Sista'hood Love Cabaret [Vancouver]

    March/07 - Featured reader at SUNY Oswego women's center [Oswego, NY]

    Jan 30, 2007 - Feature reading at Bluestockings 'Women's Poetry Jam" [NY, NY]

    2006

    Nov, 2006 - Have A Drink On Me [burlesque] for $pread Magazine Launch [Philadelphia, PA]

    August 12 - Femme 2006

    As part of San Francisco's first Femme Conference, I was really fucking excited and proud to be a room full of brilliant femme performance art. And you thought there was no movement. Ha! Much love to Vancouver's Bring Your Own, to Oakland's Savory Sweet and to SF's Transformers as well as to Railroad, all the awesome Portland kids and every kick ass person I met in at the conference. People, the west coast really is nicer!

    July 2006 - Perpetual Motion Roadshow #35

    Vvvvvvvvvvroom! Along with Jesse Dangerously and Cort Bulloch, I roamed eclectic and did karaoke across the East with the coolest DIY tour to repeatedly cover North America.

    July14: Quimbys Books, Chicago
    July 15: Cleveland
    July 16: The Rex, Pittsburgh PA [a Perpetual Takeover of the open mic - thanks Dr.Awkward!]
    July 17: The Bug Jar, Rochester NY
    July 18: Galapagos, Brooklyn
    July 19: Toc Toc Cafe, Montreal
    July 20: Venus Envy, Ottawa
    July 21: The Gladstone Art Bar, Toronto

    2005 - Earlier

    April 30.05 - Bad Girls Belief System Release

    The mad symmetry became digital April 30, 10pm at Hurricanes. Performing with me was the amazing: Sandra Alland, Kristyn Dunnion, Maggie MacDonald, Jenn Moxy, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, and Zoe Whittall.

    April 20, 2005: Feature performance as part of RAG

    Dec 12, 2004: Trash & Ready's Wintertime Slumber Party
    Co-Curated, Created, Promoted and Performed live spoken word at . Performed with Kristyn Dunnion and Elvira Kurt.

    Dec 6, 2004: Poetry as part of December 6th Memorial at George Brown College, Toronto.

    Oct 1, 2004: Training School for Maladjusted Robots' performance at Ladyfest Toronto.

    Sept-Nov 2004: Wordwhore Tour w/ Trash & Ready
    : 10 shows in Ontario and Quebec. Performed with Lesbiennes on Ecstasy, Kids on TV, Trish Salah, Alexis O'd Hara, Sky Gilbert.

    August 2004: Featured at Launch of Trade: Queer Things Magazine

    August 2004: Launch of Trash & Ready. Show with Mariko Tamaki, Emmet Outlaw, and the Republic of Safety.

    July 2004: Featured poet at Fruit Market

    June 2004: 'Captain Cracker' Drag Performance with King Size as part of Pride Toronto.

    May 2004: 'Connectionist Manifesto' presented at Mayworks: Festival of Working People in the Arts.

    May 2004: Spoken Word, opening for Sini Anderson and Robosapien. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

    March 2004: 'James Bond's Secret' Drag/Burlesque performance as part of Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Girls.

    January 2004: Featured reader at We Still Got Words, monthly reading series at the IV Lounge, Toronto.

    December 2003: Reading as part of launch for Geeks, Misfits, and Outlaws.

    November 2003: Queen Tribute Night: Curated, Hosted and Performed a live night of singing, drag, and performance art commemorating Freddy Mercury.

    September 2003: 'Hot For Teacher' burlesque

    April 2003: 'Have a Drink on Me' burlesque as part of High Femme Friday

    March 2003: Drag as part of Big Daddy Kings Spring Fling.

    July 2003: Spoken word as part of High Femme Friday at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

    September 2002: Spoken Word as part of Paper Airplane Cabaret

    April 2002: Drag/Burlesque 'Shook Me All Night Long' Diva Show, Rochester, NY.

    March 2002: MC at Nightwood Theatre's International Women's Day Cabaret.

    Feb 2001: Burlesque as part of Big Daddy Kings show.

    August 2000: Poetry as part of the Bug Bowl summer festival. Rochester, NY.

    June 2000: Co-performed and promoted Rock the Vote poetry show with Cate Smith and Fennel. Bug Jar, Rochester, NY.

    April 2000: Diva Show, 'Velouria.'

    March 2000: Co-performed and promoted poetry show with Cate Smith. Christian's Cafe, Rochester, NY.

    Nov 1998: Featured Reader at Rochester Institute of Technology Literary Cafè.

    1995-1999: Habitual featured reader at Poetry events in Rochester, NY.