Amanda-Faye Jimenez

#MemberMonday! VOLUME 🆙 for this one.😌 We’re so excited to highlight EVERYBODY member AMANDA-FAYE JIMENEZ!🎉 L.A. born & raised writer and comedic performer Amanda-Faye Jimenez sat down w/ us to share a #tbt gym selfie and how EVERYBODY served as a vital community hub during the first wave of Tr*mp in 2016. (Yes, it’s almost our 10 year anni!😯) Follow our fave local ‘Writer/Performer/Funny Friend Blaxican/Dyke💅🏽’ to catch her next show and be the first to know abt her new memoir on beauty and failure from local publisher @dopaminebooksla .🌈📓 You can also catch Amanda #inthewild co-hosting kitschy queer sports themed nite @personalbestla w/ @la.marimacha and @goth_guido . Catch the rhythm of the nite every second Saturday of the month at local lez-owned sports bar @hitopslosfeliz !💪🍺 👉 @failureprincess 4 ever!!!👑 ———- 📹 @u.got.some.nerve . . #septembermember #membertoremember #personalbest #failuteprincess #amandafayejimenez #everybodylosangeles

A lil view of Amanda-Faye Jimenez’s story from our last show #msnewbooty #dykestorytelling

If I’m being honest: - I like the way my hair and skin look in this pink bathroom selfie, but the reality these days is, if I’m not holding my head at this exact angle, my neck looks positively yonic. - I want you to come hang out and dance with me at @personalbestla with me NEXT SATURDAY real bad please!! - These are some of my fav nails in a long while. Maybe silly, but small things like looking down at my hands and liking what I see feel grounding to me in these tragic times - I love the way she looks at me - “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God (a gay bar in 2008) has joined together, let not man (bigots) put asunder.” - I just wanted to brag on my gorgeous bday spread from February

Even though this photo of me is objectively terrible and I’m wearing a tshirt that came free with purchase of the sophomore album “Razorblade Suitcase” by Bush, a band that she rightfully disapproved of, I’m posting it on main to honor Jenny today because it’s so perfect. It wasn’t always easy (although she made it look easy) to know who she was and be exactly who the fuck she was, but Jenny did, and you can see that here. I think I know now what she must have seen in the hunched over, frightened girl on the left to let me in, but I didn’t know then, and I made a lot of mistakes and hurt her many times because of this. Because I didn’t feel good enough or cool enough to be her friend, because I didn’t think someone as small as me could hurt someone larger than life like her. That this is not actually a thing, that love doesn’t work like that is just one of the many lessons my friendship with her taught me which I can genuinely say saved my life (literally) and saved me from a lifetime path of self-victimization (ok, work in progress). Two years later, it’s impossible to comprehend that she is gone. I can’t believe her family doesn’t get to talk to her every day, I can’t believe she is not on this plane anymore, it’s so earth-shatteringly unfair. I live in the town(s) we grew up in, I drive by a place that was sacred to us almost every day, and I think of her every single day, still. I’m glad that I told her all of this even though sometimes it was scary to say over the distance of a grown-up, mostly texting friendship. I’m glad she knew that even with all the life that came after girlhood, she was still one of my foremost teachers. I imagine the me in this photo saying to her that she would be one of the greatest loves in my life, and I have to smile, because she would have thought that was so weird, and she would have told me so. But, in the meantime, she’s the one who taught me not to care too much about being weird, the absolute most important lesson of all. I love you, Jennifer, and I miss you.

A lot of people have been saying that they want to enjoy a live reading featuring people who are currently writing books, so several kind and talented souls are joining forces to give the people what they want! And then some! Please join us!! Live Readings By People Writing Books Monday, Dec 16, 2024 doors 7pm  / reading starts 7:30 $12 All Proceeds to Scribble and Prisoners Literature Project @prisonerlitproject Tickets (link in bio) - /event/live-readings-by-people-writing-books with Josh Schorr Dylan Rupert Marie Condron Udita Upadhyaya Jibz Cameron  Litia Perta Amanda-Faye Jimenez Beth Pickens Anya Ventura Emila Richeson Randi Pace Hosted by Brooke Palmieri

I wish I had kept count of the number of times in our nearly 17 years together that I’ve said the words to Jo “You’re the cutest person I’ve ever met. I want to murder you and wear you like a suit, but then I would miss you too much” but I said it today again, so maybe I’ll start from here. 1. Us in Puerto Vallarta on my Drag Race prize trip (thanks Mama Ru!) in April this year 2. Us in SF partying hard in like 2008 shortly after we started dating 3. OK I’m also posting this to MOTIVATE myself to have the courage to tell the start of our story at @queerspacesstorytelling Thursday 6/20!! 4. Just a life update 💖

Yesterday I sat in bed for hours marveling at what a good mood I was in and thinking how grateful I am for my new therapist and that I think my new antidepressants are working…and promptly forgot to take that morning’s dose. Anyways, here is a selfie I took because I’m experimenting with existence again + swipe for what I’m up to. REALLY EXCITED (terrified, horror-stricken, grateful [that word again]) to get back on stage for the first time in over 6 months starting in June!! I hope you are doing ok, even though.

Truthfully, it took a lot out of me to resist the urge to return briefly to meme form and not simply make one about my recent hysterectomy, but luckily for you: 1. I saw Challengers, which blew my MIND!! 2. It’s #femmefriday 3. The blue eye shadow and red lip thing that’s happening everywhere 👄 4. I started a new antidepressant after almost 3 years being absolutely ridden raw by major depressive disorder and prrrettty serious anxiety, and it is helping, I think, but it has not made me any less prone to eating ill-advised cheeses. 5. So yeah, I had surgery and for the very first time, for a little while, I felt completely embodied, totally human, like the woman I’ve been wanting to be my whole life, in fact, and I can’t talk about that much without crying, so it’s probably an essay, not a meme *eyeroll, jackoff motion*

I’ve been thinking about starting to incorporate the phrase “that’s that me espresso” into my daily life. Let me know if you have any thoughts on that and also come dance with us tonight @personalbestla @hitopslosfeliz ! Not only will I be perking you up with another one of my middle-aged, chunky Hooters (RIP) Girl looks, but two of the best to ever do it @tropicofmari and @romyohh (who, speaking of espresso, has some of the BEST vibes and MOST party energy of literally anyone in the biz) will be playing all of our favorite jams!! Throwing a weekly party has been an exercise in…well, exercise, but every Thursday has been a blast with Mari and Dana @deez_life and the hot n cool n sweet as heck Hi Tops staff 💥☕️🍸🍭

Something I’m sure I’m not alone in because so many of us are deeply weird and also there was no butch representation in my childhood is that AC Slater from Saved By The Bell in his wrestling singlet and curly mullet is weirdly one of my gay roots… Anyway! TOMORROW NIGHT let’s hit the mat for round 2 of PERSONAL BEST 🤼‍♀️ Extra points if you dress to impress (sports edition) and I’m just saying, everyone looks good in a wrestling singlet! 🎶 DJs Marimacha @tropicofmari Por Vida @por.viduhhh Yeehawty @yeehawty_ 📣 Hosted by Amanda-Faye Jimenez @failureprincess Come early to Hydrate 🍹💦 and Carb-load! 🍔💦 Delicious food and drinks. Kitchen open until 10! @personalbestla 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️Meet @hitopslosfeliz THURSDAY 4.18 8pm! Illustration: @amandakirkhuff Flyer design: @tropicofmuari Last slide photo by @aminacruz.studio

TOMORROW NIGHT! 8PM-LATE! NO COVER! Finally the party my sporty dyke dreams are made of, @personalbestla @hitopslosfeliz has arrived! Ok fine, I’m more of a sports-watching dyke, an athletic pillow princess if you will, but I can’t wait to see all of you tomorrow night and every week after that (I KNOW, RIGHT)?! Get physical on the dance floor with me and my cohost/partner in crime 4 life @vanessacraigslist to the soundtrack of champions 🎶 by @tropicofmari , @por.viduhhh , and @shanasarett !! Personal Best is Dana @deez_life , Mari @tropicofmari and I, and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been training for 👟👟 🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️PERSONAL BEST🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏅A weekly queer dykeathlon of dancing where all muscles are welcome and surrendering to your opponent is highly encouraged. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Come sweat it out at LA’s fave dyke-owned, gay sports bar Dancing🔻Cruising🔻Lezzing Out Come early to Hydrate 🍹💦 and Carb-load! 🍔💦 Delicious food and drinks. Kitchen open until 10! Hi Tops Los Feliz 1714 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 Insane artwork: @amandakirkhuff Flyer design: @tropicofmari

I’m being told there are only a few hot tickets left for the @dopaminebooksla fundraiser/performance/dinner/extravaganza THIS SUNDAY @juniorhighla and I would really love it if you specifically would snag one and come! There’s going to be: performances (I know I said that), dinner (yeah), drinks, custom literary fragrance, curated genius artist grab bag raffle, and VERY IMPORTANTLY, you can buy the Dopazine sampler in which my inclusion among so many incredible writers is absolutely mind blowing to me!! Also, this is I guess my super informal announcement that I’m finally writing that book you all* have been clamoring** for with Michelle and Beth as my Dopadoulas and I have to pinch myself every single day because of it. I’m so so excited about all the work Dopamine is going to be publishing and would love to see you Sunday at the big debut! *10 or so ppl **casually inquiring