joan jett-blakk
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after falling madly in love with Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and all five of the New York Dolls, joan jett-blakk first stepped onto a stage in 1974 as a spokes-model for the Gay Liberation Front. that stage just happened to be in the very high school joan attended (Diana Ross also went to school there). mixing art and politics became a way of life for him/her from that moment on.
she/he went on to work with luminescent talents such as Warhol collaborators Ron Tavel (who wrote and directed Chelsea Girls) and John Calendo. in 1990, at the behest of Queer Nation, joan ran for Mayor of Chicago against Richard J. Daley, and actually came in... well, she/he came in. joan also sought the highest office in the land, President of the United States in 1992, being the first person ever to announce their intention to run from the floor of the Democratic Convention.
after not winning, joan ventured into more theatre (with the Pomo Afro Homos), and became the host of his/her very own live talk show Late Nite with Joan Jett-Blakk. through that endeavor, joan got to work with the likes of renowned German film director, Rosa von Prunheim and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
of late, joan has been writing for a variety of publications, speaking at various universities, and looking for a producer so she/he can move his/her talk show to the internet.