#Chicago Performance

[nobigneil]

Still got it @ Fan Expo Chicago

[i-am-dulaman]

Super late to the party but its hyperspecific poll time!

[onthisdayts]

Speak Now World Tour

August 10, 2011 - Chicago, Illinois

[garadinervi]

Options 13: Laurie Anderson, (installation view), MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 19, 1982 [Photo: © Paul Natkin]

[regicidal-defenestration]

Chicago the musical is mostly about the media circus but it's also about two people acquitted of the murders they very much committed getting into the worst lesbian situationship you ever did see

[theerastour]

you don't know about me but I bet you want to...

[scenedenial]

@kayyqua and i are having big feelings about baby richie rn 💔

[jadedgenasi]

Watching people argue over tipping culture is just wild because the only two arguments presented are "pay the servers a living wage to begin with" and "servers actually make like 40$ an hour and you're killing them by guaranteeing a wage instead of letting them get tips."

My ass was queer in the South working at an IHOP making $2.14 an hour and going home with about 35$ a SHIFT on average, and it was NOT because I didn't do a good job. I had no idea I was queer at the time, I just had short hair and by god that was enough. Everyone else could smell it on me. My coworkers were pulling in 80, 100 every time I turned around and I was in college killing myself over paychecks that didn't cover my gas for the whole week. I begged to be allowed to host because they got the guaranteed $7.50 an hour.

I think it's stupid that restaurants are inflating prices by adding 20%-plus gratuities on checks and then saying that's not a tip. Like, I don't think this is being handled well and it feels like malicious compliance/like customers are meant to resent the servers and the idea of a fair wage for them, but I very much believe servers should not be paid a base rate of subminimum wage. That shit fucking sucks.

Your personality and your human face being the basis by which people decide if you eat tonight or make your rent is some horseshit. That's the bottom line.

[deadtiredghost]

I feel like everyone in rottmnt is dramatic enough to enjoy Musicals but Leo and Donnie in every iterations are the real musical buffs who watch everything and anything together.

Like sure April and Mikey will join them for Heather's and Raph loves Hamilton, but Leo and Donnie watch Cats and Wild Party religiously and sing all the parts together. The only other person in the house who likes Musicals the same as they do is their dad which makes it 'cringe' to them when he sings Chicago along with April is a firm believer he should stay singing Les Mis and away from their musical nights. (Randall has scarred them)

Enter Casey Jones Jr. Future boy who has only grown up hearing Leo and April singing songs to him from various shows that he knows the basic plot to.

So of course Leo and Donnie take it upon themselves to help this poor sweet summer child catch up in his rightful musical education.

[korshrimpski]

5598 as cats :3

[watermel0ns-dumb-cringe]

Time to pester my mother with the rtc production that's 4 hours away because one of the days it's being performed is legit my last day of school

[lucyslenses]

Sax on the Street.

Shot on Kodak Portra 400.

[onthisdayts]

The 1989 Tour

July 19, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois

[garadinervi]

Options 13: Laurie Anderson, (installation view), MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 19, 1982 [Photo: © Paul Natkin]

[haggishlyhagging]

Girls and women are told in many ways that their bodies are wrong -- the wrong height, the wrong weight, the wrong shape. Gender ideology demands that the female body is to be shaped and restricted to fulfill the purpose of sexual objectification, while at the same time the sexed features of the female body are derided and mocked, portrayed as inadequate, weak, fleshy excess, vulgar in comparison to the male standard. The same breasts and curves that are demanded become "evidence" that women are sex-obsessed mindless creatures who have no higher ambition, no inner strength. Our monthly bleeding, the evidence of our unique power to create life, is twisted into an ugly taboo.

Women must at the same time be voluptuous, and yet take up no space.

Many a girl will internalize these messages and come to feel that the fault is in the body -- if only she were not a girl at all, all would be right. Surely the body is wrong. She has a full personality, after all, but in this "wrong" body that isn't permitted to have one. She chafes at the rules that come with this body, they don't fit, surely the body is wrong, a massive birth defect. She has dysphoria.

The new false promise of postmodern queer-theoretical circles is to say that those who do not wish to conform to these demands of gender may escape it, but indeed only by "no longer being women." Crucially however this process of becoming "not-women" is generally taken to involve artificially modifying the body to remove and blunt the sexually dimorphic features that mark it as female, in favor of attempting to mimic a crude facsimile of the male form.

Girls who have come to hate their bodies, to resent their breasts for the gendered social meaning that they hold, are told that this revulsion is a "natural" outcome of "not being women," rather than the internalized misogyny which it actually is. It is presented as impossible for a woman to be both observably female and free of the rules and stereotypes forced upon female people under the patriarchal gender system. Far from challenging gender, this is the ultimate capitulation to the system.

-The Chicago Feminist Salon, “Yes, Women Have Vaginas. But That Is Not the Sum Total of What We Are” in Spinning And Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century

[steelycunt]

hey. dont cry. chicago sufjan stevens all things go all things go. ok?