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New issue release party in collaboration with the London Calling festival in Paradiso Amsterdam. The new issue talks about generations so we’re very happy we got invited to host a new wave of female noise brut featuring a.o. live performances by Austra and Trust and dj sets by Lady Jane, Love on the Beat and Strange Boutique. Please come and dance with us.

May 18, 2012, midnight – 5 AM
Paradiso Amsterdam

Please join us Saturday April 14 for some sort film screenings and discussion on the theme of queer generations as part of the Fringe! East London Film Fest. The afternoon will bring together films from around the world along with a discussion between GLU editor Jessica Gysel and Lisa Gornick – artist, filmmaker and star of inter-generational lez drama The Owls. Girls Like Us paraphernalia will be on sale throughout the day along with a sneak peek of the new issue! Plus a talk by photographer and writer Holly Falconer on “Clubbing and Camp: A generation in club photography” examining what part clubs play in defining queer generations.

Please join us Monday March 19 for a Riot Grrrls Like Us evening with plenty of 90s nostalgia but also a look forward. Featuring a lecture by Sara Marcus (author of Girls To The Front), a Q&A, video’s, goodies, signed book copies and plenty of music.

March 9, 2012, 8 PM – 1 AM
Meneer Malasch, Postjesweg 2, Amsterdam

Please join us for a GIRL ALLNIGHTER featuring LA CHATTE (live), ANIKA, STELLAR OM SOURCE, STRANGE BOUTIQUE and FATIMA SUPREME. We’ll be hosting De Verdieping, while Sandrien is playing upstairs. BIG FUN!

Note! LA CHATTE performs at midnight, make sure to come on time!

LINE-UP:
23.00 – 00.00: Fatima Supreme (DJ)
00.00 – 00.30: La Chatte (live)
00.30 – 02.00: Anika (DJ)
02.00 – 03.30: Stellar Om Source (DJ performance)
03.30 – 05.00: Strange Boutique

LA CHATTE
Parisian based La Chatte plays a post-punk inspired electro-zouk; ryhthmic, dark, distorted and chocolate-flavored. The band is renowned for their head blowing performances, featuring outrageous outfits designed by the band’s lead singer Vava Dudu who’s a stylist in daily life and whose creations have been supported by oa Lady Gaga. Oh, and Vava was GLU’s last issue’s cover model. The girl with the banana on her head.

ANIKA
English bred, Berlin based journalist turned musician Annika Henderson recorded her first album ‘Anika’ with Portishead’s Geoff Barrow in 2010. She also moonlights as a DJ with a knack for the dark and twisted.

STELLAR OM SOURCE
Half French, half Italian Christelle Gualdi spent the last years in The Hague and Antwerp. She started out as a semi-ambient synth goddess but recently shifted towards sharp, very danceable acid house and proto-techno.

STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Amsterdam based Femke Dekker and Rotterdam based Nicole Martens have been stirring up dancefloors all over, making waves with their ecclectic, often obscure yet very danceable tunes.

FATIMA SUPREME
Feminist dance disco by Inssaf Uariachi, original GLUster Supreme.

February 25, 2012 – 11 PM – 5 AM
De Verdieping at Trouw, Amsterdam

Come and join us for a night over great performances and a little dance too!

SOPHIE (London)
Light Asylum protégé SOPHIE is a London-based musician and producer. SOPHIE’s music spins you upside down, dips you in water, flashes strobe lights at you, takes you on a slow incline to the peak and then drops you vertically down a smoky tunnel. It’s dance music that sounds very new and very high definition while at the same time hinting towards the familiar with a nostalgic streak. SOPHIE performed in different clubs and art spaces in both Europe and America and has an album coming out on London’s Huntley and Palmers label in January 2012.

Pashly (Portland/Berlin)
Originally hailing from Portland and now based in Berlin, Pashly waltzes her way through seductive-vocals, falling somewhere in between Björk and Tracey Thorn. A compelling vision, extravagant wardrobe, surreal projections act as a backdrop to this abstract-art-Cinderella, Machine-like disco beats and minimalistic pulses, straddling New Order, Kraftwerk, and the dance-club underground.

rRoxymore (Paris/Berlin)
Emerged from a circular cube of hot ice, rRoxymore is a solo electronic project of Hermione FRANK. She performs her sounds with bouncing tenderness. Her glittery wrestling cape hides her backline only to reveal her complex basslines, an extensible system of tribal pulses and sonant keyboards. She’s also part of PLANNINGTOROCK’s live band, taking care of all the beats.

http://soundcloud.com/rroxymore

When Harry Met Sally & TESSisMORE (Amsterdam)
Renowned DJ couple who need no further introduction.

December 16, 2011, 10 PM – 4 AM
Meneer Malasch, Postjesweg 2, Amsterdam

Girls Like Us in collaboration with Barbi(e)turix presents the official aftershow of No Bra, the German ex-London now New York based performer with no bra.

November 25, 2011, 10 PM – 2 AM
Le 9b, 68 Blvd. de la Vilette, Paris

Girls Like Us is taking part in That We Know / Wat men weet, 1994 –, a project by artist Hinrich Sachs, inviting three guests (Girls Like Us’ Vela Arbutina, Leontien Coelwij and Valerie Smith) to a public debate that takes place at a table on which all the September issues of the magazine ELLE are presented (28 editions). This magazine talk and live recording is part of the parallel programme Specters of the Nineties, an exhibition curated by Lisette Smits and Matthieu Laurette. The exhibition looks at the last decade of the 20th century through a selection of art works made in the period between 1989 and 2000 that could be considered as anticipating on the social and political constellations of today and the position of art therein.

November 12, 2011, 3 PM
Marres, Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht

Girls Like Us will be present at the New York Art Bookfair with a fresh batch of t-shirts and bags. Come by and say hello.

September 30 – October 2, 2011
MoMa PS 1, NYC

Girls Like Us at Vijzelstraatmuseum as part of Amsterdam Gay Pride.
3D installation on display, August 2011.

August 25 – 27, 2011, 8 PM
Vijzelstraat 72, Amsterdam

Screening of the lezzie porn movie ‘Community Action Center’ directed by A.K. Burns and L.A.Steiner. The movie – set in the larger surroundings of New York, is inspired by 60s and 70s male gay porn and moves away from porn cliches such as prefab dildo’s and butch fucks femme in police uniform. Instead, the video fucks with all the tropes and in the end is erotic, funny, weird and perverse.
Amsterdam premiere of acclaimed New York based band Light Asylum. The group, consisting of singer/drummer Shannon Funchess and synth player bruno Coviello, evokes echos of Ian Curtis meets Alison Moyet – or rather Grace Jones.
DJ entertainment by Love On The Beat and Lady Jane (Catclub Brussels).

Thursday June 2
OT 301, Amsterdam

Featuring

Doubles
Vava Dudu and Theo Mercier
Tavi Gevinson and Diane Pernet
Keren Cytter and Dafna Maimon
Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard

Singles
Kaisa Lassinaro
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Leilah Weinraub
Benjamin A. Huseby
Eline McGeorge
Janis Pönisch
Anie Stanley
Andrea Ferrer
Devrim Bayar

Cover
Vava Dudu – La Chatte
Artwork by Les Mecs de L’Enfer
(Théo Mercier, Jeremi Piningre)
Photography by Alfredo Piola

Leilah Weinraub

Filmmaker Leilah Weinraub, 31, spent years working on a realistic portrait of Shakedown, an all-black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles. She filmed every Thursday and Friday night for a period spanning over seven years. Working with video, sound, gesture, choreography, new language, gay black culture, femininity vs feminism, and gay family, the movie explores how a queer, closed community works as a system, experienced from within. The whole project has been Leilah’s most important life achievement to date, culminating in getting the last part of it funded through Kickstarter, the 2.0 funding website.
Words by Jessica Gysel / Photo by Sophie Morner

Tavi Gevinson and Diane Pernet

In 2005, when Diane Pernet started her fashion blog, A Shaded View on Fashion, little did she know that she was about to almost single-handedly redefine the way the media reported about fashion. Paving the way for thousands of followers, Diane is the leading authority when it comes to exploring new ways of presenting fashion to the wider world. Diane’s age is probably fashion’s best kept secret, but one could respectfully call her the ‘grand dame’ of fashion journalism. We thought it would be interesting to hook her up with Tavi Gevinson who, at the tender age of 14, has also turned fashion writing on its head with her sparkling blog, The Style Rookie. Old meets new in this Q&A-ing between Paris, adopted hometown of American-born Diane, and suburban Chicago, where Tavi lives with her parents.
Words by Diane and Tavi / Photo by Daniel Trese

Keren Cytter and Dafna Maimon

Berlin-based, Israeli artist Keren Cytter, 34, and Berlin/Amsterdam based, Finnish/Israeli artist Dafna Maimon, 29, have attempted all sorts of things in the name of art. Keren creates videos, dance performances, drawings and books – and has even written a libretto for an opera. With ease, she blends high and low pop culture, referencing classic movies, experimental films and YouTube clips… it all makes sense to her. While Dafna Maimon makes videos, installations, and performances that illustrate the pseudo-amusing, yet tragic, human attempt to position oneself within the [art] world. Her actors are her friends, bodybuilders, dominatrixes and even ambitious, up-and-coming Hollywood actors. Together, they form the dance group Dance International Europe (D.I.E.) Now.
Words by Dafna and Keren / Photo by Benjamin A.Huseby

Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard

We’d have featured Lauren and Lauren for their last names alone: Flax & Dillard. They don’t come more all-American than that. Although the pair have been buddies for ages, they only recently started to collaborate, resulting in their music production adventure, CREEP. So far, they’ve created songs that have featured Romy Madley-Croft from The xx and American twin singing sisters, Nina Sky. Lauren Flax, 32, already has an outstanding career as a DJ and remixer (think: Sia, Fischerspooner, Morningwood), while Lauren Dillard, 26, tried her hand at DJing, writing music, and making video art while spending time in Europe as part of !WOWOW!, the London art collective. For this interview, they met in a haunted room at New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel.
Words by Pati Hertling / Photo by Nina Mouritzen

Anie Stanley

Born and raised in the wooded upper Catskill Mountains, experimental filmmaker Anie Stanley, 42, now runs the homestead ‘Smokey Belles’, not so far from where she originally grew up. Describing itself as ‘a lawless camp for artists, operating in the storied tradition of creative colonies removed from urban centers’, Smokey Belles has been functioning not only as a queer artist residency, but also as a ranch, retreat, cottage, summer camp, cabin and general getaway. Curious to find out more about the person behind it, we went upstate and spent a weekend with Anie and her community. They included video artist Yvette Choy; video and performance artists Patty Chang and Lynne Chan; and Miriam Ginestier, the multi-faceted Artistic Director of Montreal’s Studio 303.
Words by Sara van der Heide / Photo by Mary Manning

Benjamin A.Huseby

Featuring
The Photo – Melanie Bonajo
The Class – Pascale Gatzen
The Musical – Melissa Lidauvais
The Story – Melissa Plaut
The Composition – Anne de Vries
The Editors – Bart de  Baets
The Movie – Jennie Livingstone
The Gallery – Jessica Silverman
The Ode – Mylou Oord
The Jewel – Yaz Bukey
The Essay – David Lynch
The Composition – Qiu Yang

Cover
Melissa Livaudais photographed by Sam Falls, New York

The Photo – Melanie Bonajo

Melanie Bonajo is an Amsterdam-based artist who’s constantly on the move. With new-school bohemian courage, she keeps changing and morphing; her photographic work being witness to this process. A versatile girl, her curiosity made her wander past the art world and away from the commercial world, and she’s now embarking on a more mystic universe. As we speak, she’s working on her first concept album; music being her latest explor-ation. Needless to say that we love the idea of a rebirth of that 70s concept.
Words by Clark Solack / Photo by Sophie Morner

The Class – Pascale Gatzen

In 2007, fashion designer Pascale Gatzen was invited by Parsons, The New School of Design, to jump on board and create a new pathway – Fashion Track – within the Integrated Design Program (IDp).This was the big break for Pascale, who at the time, was living in Am-sterdam and stuggling with the strict Dutch educational system. The following 3D interview is based on talks with three of her close collaborators and friends. Susan Cianciolo co-teaches with Pascale at Parsons and is, herself, an accomplished designer. Nightwood is the furniture brand run by Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron, partners-in-crime who work in a very hands-on, no-nonsense approach. Michael DiPietro is Pascale’s most loyal pupil and one of the initiators of Absolute Beginners, the store that grew out of the Fashion Track in New York’s Lower East Side.
Photo by Brianna Capozzi

The Musical – Melissa Lidauvais

These days music identifies itself by presenting an unidentifiable nature: a melting pot of styles all blended together in intricate grit of layers, thrusting sonically back and forth like a Jackson Pollock painting, creating some weird kind of unknown elevated higher purpose. And this is exactly what the music of Telepathe does; it pleasantly folds over you like waves of siren-like chants in order to break your dykes in mysteriously thrusting beats of sonic levels. On a late summer afternoon in McCarren Park, I talk with Mc Carren Park talk with Melissa Livaudais, one half of the Telepathe duo.
Words by JOFF / Photo by Sam Falls

The Movie – Jennie Livingstone

Years ago, I think somewhere in 1999, I took home a copy of Paris Is Burning from my local video store. I didn’t really know what to expect but its title intrigued me, and being a fan of the voguing phenomenon, I was really curious to see what the film had to offer.
I totally fell in love while watching it – all these people having fun at those balls and showing off, the bitching amongst each other, the dreams – either lost or yet to be gained – the music, the moves, the dances! I googled its director and – much to my surprise – found out she was a woman and a lesbian. Years later, I finally got hold of Jennie Livingston. She’s is a busy person but she gave me half-an-hour of her time. However, the 30 minutes turned into 54 minutes by the time our late-night overseas phone call was over.
Words by Jessica Gysel

The Gallery – Jessica Silverman

Years ago, I think somewhere in 1999, I took home a copy of Paris Is Burning from my local video store. I didn’t really know what to expect but its title intrigued me, and being a fan of the voguing phenomenon, I was really curious to see what the film had to offer.
I totally fell in love while watching it – all these people having fun at those balls and showing off, the bitching amongst each other, the dreams – either lost or yet to be gained – the music, the moves, the dances! I googled its director and – much to my surprise – found out she was a woman and a lesbian. Years later, I finally got hold of Jennie Livingston. She’s is a busy person but she gave me half-an-hour of her time. However, the 30 minutes turned into 54 minutes by the time our late-night overseas phone call was over.
Words by Sarvia Jasso / Photo by Daniel Trese