Mid-Week Libation: Everybody Say Love!
Put on our 80s playlist, treat yourself to a glass of Xinomavro, check out the collages of Jackie Milad, celebrate spring with a poem by Elsa Gidlow, and watch a fabulous performance by Sasha Velour!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Sandra Bernhard
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Oenos Mittas, Xinomavro (Naoussa, Greece)
Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: It’s Late Now
The Art of Jackie Milad
Poem of the Week: “Chant of Spring” by Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)
Chant of Spring
by Elsa Gidlow
Like an unhappy woman Earth frees herself
from the arms of Winter,
Surely Winter, her indifferent Lord,
Whose touch is death to her passionate body,
And, weeping, yields to Spring, the
wooing maiden,
The slim girl who kisses her with
awakening kisses,
Burning her lips and eyelids with flaming mouth
loosed upon them,
Renewing her body with wildness
of young caresses,
Holding her close while the reckless hours dance
to death.
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Wan passion flowers growing in hidden places,
Memories,
Kisses given by the slim maiden.
Wan passion flowers,
All that is left to Earth of her maddest lover.Drag Performance of the Week: Sasha Velour — “Can't Get You Out Of My Head”
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Today is the birthday of Willem Drost, Ōta Nanpo, Sarah Bagley, Qorpo-Santo, Mary Louise Booth, José Echegaray, Leona Florentino, Eva Gonzalès, Nobu Kōda, Alice Salomon, Ruth Milles, Bessie Mecklem Hackenberger, Manuel Bandeira, Germaine Tailleferre, César Falcón, Anton Pieck, Kay Swift, Rita Rait-Kovaleva, Sybil Andrews, Doctor Clayton, Sol Kaplan, Masaru Kawasaki, William Klein, Etheridge Knight, Fernando Botero, Jayne Mansfield, Antonio Carluccio, Michel Roux, Larry Ramos, Rikki Ducornet, Bernie Worrell, Dele Jegede, Tim Curry, Paloma Picasso, Candy Gourlay, Rita Ackermann, Amanda Sage and Ali Wong!
What can’t you get out of your head this Wednesday?
How incredible that a drag artist is on Good Morning America. Again, I really wish Rozz and Erik were alive to see how much things have changed.