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Jibz Cameron: Hell in a Handbag

  • The Lab 2948 16th St San Francisco, CA, 94103 (map)

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Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
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A freak’s freak, iconoclast performance artist Jibz Cameron is best known for her multimedia act Dynasty Handbag, an alter ego lampooning the tragic absurdity of heterosexuality, queerness, the female body, capitalism, depression, art making, and life itself. With her debut memoir Hell in a Handbag, Cameron traces her warped and inspired perspective from a childhood spent with hippie clowns on the broken-down commune scene of Northern California, to making morbid zines as a teen in the East Bay punk scene, to in-your-face experiences of misogyny in New York City’s avant-garde theater scene, to the grisly birth of Dynasty Handbag and her droll evisceration of contemporary life. An engrossing and swiftly paced story as candid as it is wise, Hell in a Handbag is an immersion in unhinged queer genius.

Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist and actor. She is most well known for her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag, which has spanned over 20 years. Jibz is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. Her memoir Hell In A Handbag will be released April 2026 on DOPAMINE BOOKS. Jibz is also an actor, even tho its embarassing. She lirvs and lorvs in Lors Angeles but larffs in NYCrty.