staying with beautiful people
drinking...
relaxing...
eating amazing food...
more drinking...
swimming...
more relaxing...
CRAFTING!
even more relaxing...
!!CRAFTING!!
& performing at Gay Heaven, known colloquially as 'Tropical Fruits Festival'
The performance was in collaboration with the legendary Shiny Shiny band & involved feeding grown men pina coladas from latex glove teets...
& glowing orb boobs.
I really did. And I wasn't even hungover! Relatively speaking..
But even with all that excessive radness, perhaps my favourite x-mas gift came from this man:
Gerard Henderson.
I checked my mail in transit on the way home & received a link to an article Gerard has written about ME! Partly about me, anyhow. It was a long-winded gripe published in the Sydney Morning Herald where Gerard takes swipe at what he sees as the ABC's 'left wing bias'. Apparently Gerard was lolling on the beach on Christmas day listening to the radio & heard a replay of a feature piece for ABC Arts about yarn bombing by Suzanne Donisthorpe in which I was interviewed.
During the interview, which was at the end of the feature after coverage of other artists, I spoke about the lesbian cunt fling ups which I hung on the Basilica in Vatican City last year.
Well, Gerard was not happy that the ABC reported on my work, not one little bit. He said that the ABC's inclusion of the work of "a certain Casey Jenkins" was "terribly twee" & then rambled on a bit about how I should be more catholic "in the universal sense of the word" (whatever that means) & suggested my fling ups would only be newsworthy if I'd taken them to "the Haj in Saudi Arabia or outside Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's office in Tehran" & that the Basilica had been "easy".
Hmmmmm...
Well, I suppose he does have a point. To get my two cents in, as a young queer woman, all I had to do was fly across the world, smuggle subversive artwork through several security checks & erect it on a heavily fortified, iconic building. Gerard on the other hand, as a middle-aged hetero man, had to go to the extreme effort of turning on the radio while lying on the beach digesting his Christmas dinner before his voice was heard in a major publication
O! Poor Old White Hetero Men! Poor Gerard!
I hope the ABC takes note of his plea 'cause for Godssake! HOW MANY MORE OLD WHITE HETERO MEN ARE GONNA HAVE TO LIE AROUND ON BEACHES BEFORE THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD???
But anyway, I've gotta thank Gerard for using his precious media space to draw attention to mine again. Thanks babe xx
