Wendy Delorme (born 28 July 1979) is a writer, performance artist, actress, and

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activist. As a writer, Delorme published 4 novels in French, "Quatrième Génération" (Grasset, 2007), "Insurrections! en territoire sexuel" (Ed. Au Diable Vauvert 2009), "La Mère, la sainte et la putain" (ed. Au Diable Vauvert, 2012), and "Le Corps est une chimère" (Ed. au Diable Vauvert, 2018) As a performance artist, she goes by the stage names Wendy Babybitch and Klaus Engel, as part of the neo-burlesque theater groups ''The Kisses Cause Trouble'', ''The Drag King Fem Show'', the ''Cabaret des Filles de Joie'' and the ''Queer X Show''. Going under the rubrique of ''performeuse'' in her one-woman shows near the racy

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section of Paris, Delorme performs a hyper-exaggerated form of "femininity" as a male drag performer might, which harkens back to theoretical constructs such as "

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" or " gender performance" of

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. About her performances, Delorme said, "In the morning or in the evening, in my bathroom, I reinvent myself, I become a woman, and that is not biological, it is more a question of belief.

Works

* "Quatrième génération", (Fourth Generation) Grasset, novel, 2007. * "Insurrections ! En territoire sexuel", (Insurrections! In Sexual Territory) Au Diable Vauvert, essay, 2009.Nicolas G., �
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/ref> * (dir.) "In-soumises : contes cruels au féminin", avec Gala Fur, (Unsubmissive: Cruel Stories, a la feminine) La Musardine, 2012. * "La Mère, la sainte et la putain", (Mothers, Saints, and Whores), Au Diable Vauvert, novel, 2012. * "Le Corps est une chimère", Au Diable Vauvert, novel, 2018. * "Viendra le temps du feu", Cambourakis, novel, 2021.

Translations

* ''Le Petit guide de la sexualité épanouie'' (The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written) de Cathy Winks et Anne Semans, trans. with Sandrine Bodet, éditions Tabou, 2009. * ''Déséquilibres synthétiques'' (Will Work for Drugs) by Lydia Lunch, trans. with

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, Au Diable Vauvert, 2010.

Filmography

* ''The final girl'', experimental fiction, by Todd Verow, 2010. * , documentary by her and Émilie Jouvet, 2010. * '' he Sex Workers', 2009. documentary about her * 2012. documentary about her * '' onight (or Never!)' 2007. documentary about her

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Delorme, Wendy French women writers French LGBT rights activists 21st-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers French performance artists English–French translators French translators 1979 births Living people Sex-positive feminists 20th-century French women 21st-century French women

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