Ron Athey

“Everyday the whole world breaks my heart” Little Annie before The Swans, Tuesday the Lodge Room 💘💘💘💘💘💘

Newest in my EgertonMS series, Divinity Icon: the Executioner

Barbette’s Vaudevillian Drag From 1969: A profile of the trapeze artist Barbette, who always performed his first acts dressed in a ball gown and served as a muse for the writer Jean Cocteau.

After seeing a photo of Barbette in the Getty's Queer Lens show, I was looking for a copy of the Man Ray book for a friend, but found this 1969 New Yorker story!

Yes, I was reading they miscalculated the slow absorption of the Valium dose and everyone still died fitting from cyanide

Tarik, middle peaking through front row. I knew his brother Eric, also died with their brothers Jair and Shawn. Ithe 70s were forever ago, but it always been awkward to reckon with the kool-aid jokes. And the charisma of Jim Jones. This is the root of my "trouble in paradise" paranoia of utopias.

Currently writing about: Tarik and I were the same age, friends through grade and middle school when he and his brothers left for Jonestown, Guyana. Their mum, who would give me favorable updates, was meant to join them. After the mass suicide/murder event, she negotiated their burial in Trinidad 1)

In my own veil

🚬 American Hotel 1983

Early 90s with Vaginal Davis and Divinity Fudge 💘💘

Miss Velma is always modestly levitating 🙌🏽

The late great Dr. Velma Jaggers 1970s and Divinity in a replica dress I have made complete with the side-wound-ribbon of Christ, from Deliverance 1995 💛💛

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Tomás Aceves shot this t-shirt campaign for our Darkness Visible fundraiser, in a Victorian House I've been sitting in the West Adams district! Love my family! Pony, Reve, Stacy, Carl, Jeanelle, Eric, had a blast on a bank holiday Monday 💙

I thought the pumpkin spice had already been stretched too far, poor Mr. Clean!

I thought those were his legs at first ;)

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Greer Lankton's Hermaphrodite Doll Giving Birth! this is site is a treasure, especially for images like this that aren't on meta family friendly sites!

Remembering what’s in my book stack! 🖤🖤🖤

Major all day event for Nancy Buchanan retrospective in Los Angeles, Saturday!!!!

Reissue of Joe Westmoreland’s Tramps just arrived ❤️❤️❤️

Dinner with Zackary Drucker and Annie Sprinkle last night 💖💖💖 majorness

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WILLENDORF t-shirt art at the printers! Benefit for our October Athens workshop Darkness Visible, Layouts in comments 🖤

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Bonus Anohni text ☺️🩵🩵🩵

I meant to post this writing Robert Wilson contributed for afterword to my 2013 monograph Pleading In The Blood: the Art and Performances of Ron Athey’s, editor Dominic Johnson on Intellect Press. He did a brilliant reading of this before my lecture at Watermill summer ‘13 RIP 💗💗💗

I had that dream again

gorgeous 🧡

Teatime in LA and I’m bonkers today 🥳🥳🥳

With Rob Halford and Larry Flynt at Taix for the Tom of Finland Cultural Icons Awards 2001 (I was standing in to receive HR Giger's trophy!, I did receive my own in 2019). I was friends with his late wife Althea and we did flash back to the Larry Flynt for President event in his Bel Air home.

1991 at Scott Ewalt's one-off Hollywood club "Burlesk", Patty Powers and myself jumped out of a cake and acted out. Go-go-ing plugged 🌹🌹🌹