Hell in a Handbag, by Dynasty Handbag

“Pure genius.” — Paul Reubens Queer performance artist Jibz Cameron, best known for her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag, comes to EMPAC for an evening of performance and readings from her memoir, Hell in a Handbag. The book traces Cameron’s singular perspective from a childhood spent with hippie clowns in Northern California, through making morbid zines as a teenager in the East Bay punk scene, to encounters with misogyny in New York City’s avant-garde theater scene. Frank and funny, Cameron writes candidly about addiction, mental illness, her mother’s suicide, and the experiences that eventually gave rise to Dynasty Handbag.