Wendy Delorme


Wendy Delorme is a writer, performance artist, actress, and LGBT activist.
As a writer, Delorme published five novels in French, "Quatrième Génération", "Insurrections! en territoire sexuel", "La Mère, la sainte et la putain", "Le Corps est une chimère", and "Viendra le temps du feu".
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

  • "Quatrième génération", Grasset, novel, 2007.
  • "Insurrections ! En territoire sexuel", Au Diable Vauvert, essay, 2009.
  • "In-soumises : contes cruels au féminin", avec Gala Fur, La Musardine, 2012.
  • "La Mère, la sainte et la putain",, 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 de Cathy Winks et Anne Semans, trans. with Sandrine Bodet, éditions Tabou, 2009.
  • Déséquilibres synthétiques by Lydia Lunch, trans. with Virginie Despentes, Au Diable Vauvert, 2010.

    Filmography

  • The final girl, experimental fiction, by Todd Verow, 2010.
  • , documentary by her and Émilie Jouvet, 2010.
  • ', 2009. documentary about her
  • 2012. documentary about her
  • ' 2007. documentary about her