Cindy Emch is a lesbian poet living in San Francisco. She founded the Queer Open Mic at the Three Dollar Bill Cafe in August of 2004. She has been published in the anthologies It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion, Beauty and Personal Style, edited by Michelle Tea, and Tough Girls 2: More Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica, edited by Lori Selke. She has self-published a number of chapter books. She is a writer and curator who is trying to foster community and arts activism within the writing and queer communities of San Francisco.
Personal life Cindy Emch was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 11, 1974. She attended Michigan State University and interned at On Our Backs magazine in the summer of 1995. In June of 2006, she moved to Phoenix, AZ to work for the publishing company DM International. In January of 1997 she moved to the Bay Area to live in Oakland, CA and work for Stormy Leather. She left Stormy Leather in October 1998 and began working for the SF LGBT Film Festival (Frameline). It was through her work at Frameline that she began curating films and publishing her pop culture writings. She left Frameline in August of 2003. In November of that year she began working for the SF LGBT Community Center. In the Spring of 2005 she became the Program Manager for AIDS, Medicine and Miracles. In August of 2005 she began working for the website AtomFilms.com where she is currently the Programming Manager for AtomFilms and AtomUploads.com - part of the MTV Networks family.
Art Cindy Emch's first San Francisco feature was at the first Labrynth Alley Arts Salon in 1998. She has since featured at Writers With Drinks, Writers Village (part of SF Pride), Smack Dab, K'vetsch, SFinX, The Perpetual Motion Road Show, the 24 Hour Poetry Event (with California College of the Arts), Art for Autism, Sizzle (with Femina Potens), the National Queer Arts Festival, Poems Under the Dome and more.
She has been a curator for the National Queer Arts Festival since 1995 and has been the recipient of a Creating Community grant from the Queer Cultural Center.
She curates and hosts the Queer Open Mic with Sherilyn Connelly on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month in San Francisco.
She hosted the Unka Lynnee & Aunty Cindy Show with Lynn Breedlove on Pirate Cat Radio (piratecatradio.com) for two years. Podcasts of the show are available at archive.com
Queer Open Mic Queer Open Mic is a community resource, gathering space and performance venue for folks of all varieties to come together to connect through art. Past features have included Daphne Gottlieb, Michelle Tea, Meliza Banales, Lauren Wheeler, Storm Florez, Thea Hillman, Fran Varian, Juba Kalamka, Heathen Machinery, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, solidad de costa, Tina Butcher, Lynn Breedlove, Jackie Strano, Tim'm West, Shar Rednour, Yankee Sheila, Hazel Pine, Neely Bat, Jen Cross, Tara Jepsen, Horehound Stillpoint and more.
Unka Lynnee & Aunty Cindy Show Cindy Emch joined the Unka Lynnee & Aunty Cindy Show in December of 2004 and co-helmed the mic until February of 2007. *
The show is described as Old skool nu skool i didnt go to skool. we play queer, chick, trans and garden variety tunesÂ… punk rock, musicals, chick cock rock, math rock, gay vaudevillian shit from the twenties and weird pop culture archival shit that we find laying around san clamsdisco. in between folks can call up with questions about gender, trans identity, body modification, hormones, feminism, dating,femmes, butches, and general queer bot issues. ROCK ON WIT YER SOX ON.
Existing as a combination pop culture melting pot and showcase of queer artists, guest performers include Meliza Banales, Daphne Gottlieb, Katastrophe, Michelle Tea, Cooper Lee, Heather Gold, Kelly Lee Beardsley, Frances Varian, Annie Sprinkle and more.
The show still exists as The Unka Lynnee Show hosted solo by Lynn Breedlove.
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