Introduction
Wendy Delorme, born July 28, 1979 is a woman of letters, performance artist, actress, and LGBT activist.
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 Pigalle 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 "doing gender" or "gender performance" of Judith Butler.
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
- Pervers & Safe : petit guide de prévention pour le sexe BDSM, (Perverse and Safe: a small preventive guide for BDSM) Tabou, 2006.
- Quatrième génération, (Fourth Generation) Grasset, novel, 2007.
- Insurrection ! En territoire sexuel, (Insurrection! In Sexual Territory) Au Diable Vauvert, essay, 2009 · · .
- (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.
- The final girl, experimental fiction, by Todd Verow, 2010.
Translations
- Tout savoir sur la fellation (The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio) de Violet Blue, translated with Murielle Kosman, éditions Tabou, 2007.
- 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 Virginie Despentes, Au Diable Vauvert, 2010.
- Anne Delabre, « Wendy Delorme sur tous les fronts », Têtu, March 20, 2009 (in French).
- Alice Antheaume, « Wendy Delorme : "Les trois quarts des filles ne savent pas qu'elles ont un clitoris lorsqu'elles ont un rapport sexuel" », 20 minutes, March 21, 2009 (in French).
- Nicolas G., « Insurrection !
Filmography
- Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts, A Queer X Show at the Internet Movie Database, documentary by her and Émilie Jouvet, 2010.
- Les travailleu(r)ses du sexe at the Internet Movie Database [The Sex Workers], 2009. documentary about her
- Louis(e) de Ville, portrait d'une bad girl at the Internet Movie Database 2012. documentary about her
- Ce soir (ou jamais!) at the Internet Movie Database [Tonight (or Never!)] 2007. documentary about her