Mar 6th, 2007
Author Interview on mnartists.org
The second part of the “Thinking Souls” feature is Shannon Gibney’s interview with me.
She asked just the right questions to get to deeper issues that mainstream media dismiss as “too complicated” for their reporting while they fixate on “what it’s like having two dads.”
Our conversation was a number of months ago, so it was amusing to read it with fresh eyes. I’m really fond of the final quote:
Shannon Gibney: Where do you think you got that confidence?
Abigail Garner: I think it came from my upbringing. The idea that in order to have any kind of self-respect, I had to dream somewhere else. Quite frankly, Broadway musicals were a big part of that — to be that starring role, where everything was going to come together, and everything rhymed perfectly. That was what I held onto, that there was something beyond junior high. I think it also comes from being around a lot of gay men, who loved fabulousness. If they weren’t already completely fabulous, they were well on their way.
That just makes me laugh, because I don’t really remember saying it, but it is at the heart of my philosophy. A rousing chorus of “Put a Little More Mascara On” has been known to pull me out of my darkest moments.
Read the rest of the interview here. Leave your two cents on the mnartists.org forums here.
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me too! ever since i saw La Cage when i was 15, i’ve always hummed “put a little more mascara on.” wow, weird coincidence. of course when i was goth, & wearing pounds of liquid liner, it was essentially true, too: my own kind of drag, as it were.
Me too!