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Monique Jenkinson's memoir, a dazzlingly unfettered exposé of life as a soulful performer, begins, of course, with style, fashion, and budding star quality.
Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack title in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe.
Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack title in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe.
I first beheld Fauxnique back in the fall of 2005. She was performing at a SoMa art gallery, at the book launch for K.M. Soehnlein's You Can Say You Knew Me When. I was a young editor, pretty fresh out of a U-Haul to San Francisco from my hometown of Dallas, Texas; and Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkins...
Rachel Howard June 1, 2021Updated: June 1, 2021, 7:31 am Brenda Way, ODC artistic director. Photo: Darryl Bush / The Chronicle 2007 With a 13,000-square-foot Mission District campus billed as “the most active contemporary dance center on the West Coast,” ODC found itself in a strong position for survival when the pandemic hit. But “ODC doesn’t want to be the last dance organization standing after COVID,” ODC executive director Carma Zisman said recently. “We want the dance ecosystem around us.” The organization is proving its commitment to that statement with the on...