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(pronounced Sha-Vhan) Artist, performance artist, musician in New York City, U.S.A. She is a transgendered or transsexual person who occasionally guests on the Howard Stern Program as a member of The Wack Pack. She was born a male in Brooklyn, in 1956.
Image:Siobhan--fam.jpg Siobhan (l.) with daughter (c.) and former wife (r), 2004
Siobhan is a cat rescuer and veterinary assistant who resides in the lower East Village (Loisaida). She is one of the founders of the Umbrella House Squat[2], one of the few squats that was able to convert an abandoned building to low-income rent-controlled use following a series of renovations that brought the building up to city code [3]. The court case of Umbrella House Squat was resolved through a legal means called Adverse possession[4]. Siobhan's "Furry Love Kitten Kat Farm" occupies a tenency on the top floor of the building.
Siobhan's cat rescue organization serves as a hospice and shelter-of-last-resort for unwanted or unadoptable felines. In addition, the Kat Farm, as it is also known, provides board and care, and it is also listed as an adoption agency on Petfinder.com[4] . Siobhan's income derives from providing feline support services including petsitting, routine hygiene for cats, and supervised veterinary support (e.g., diabetes management, infection and wound care.)
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Siobhan appeared variously in male or transgender female forms. She organized a music troupe called "Pep Girlz" that performed in local venues during that time. She also produced an underground comic of the same name which featured the antics of four pre-op transexuals, Kali Molotov, Sledgehammer Susan, Black Betty Afrikka, and CircularSaw Sally. The band produced one CD in 1997, titled "Down 'n Dirty"Image:PepGirlz.jpg[5]. This music has spread around the world as an example of mid-90's punk rage genre and is downloadable at some websites.
She often produced "radical art" in the form of underground comics, posters, and performance art. Her artistic style is that of an illustrator, using pen and ink in highly intracate, stippled format. Politicians and celebrities were often skewerd by Siobhan's sarcastic wit, most notably New York mayors David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani. Some of Siobhan's illustration art is preserved in university collections as part of overall womens' studies curricula.
Siobhan frequently permitted New York University (NYU) film students to use the Kat Farm as subject material for class assignments, and she appeared in many of these short documentaries ("shorts.")
After 2003, she decided to become fully female and underwent sex reassignment surgery at the Toby Meltzer Clinic [6] in Arizona. Siobhan has since that time lived fully female.
She is the genetic parent of two daughters, one residing in Brooklyn, and the other in central Pennsylvania. In 2005, she became a grandparent for the first time. Siobhan had studied fine art at Pratt Institute]][7] and also holds a baccalaureate from Shippensburg University of PA [8], a state teachers' college.
Siobhan has appeared at various times through the years as a guest of the Howard Stern Show, on broadcast radio, satellite (Sirius [9] ,) and television. In 1988, she appeared in Howard's first Pay Per View show: "Howard Stern's Negligee' and Underpants Party." Her photo appeared in Howard Stern's first autobiograpy, Private Parts. She has pushed the envelope in art, music, and performance and achieved a small measure of fame, or notoriety, through her oeurve.
Siobhan Meow [10] [11] [12] [13]
Howard Stern Show [14] The Wack Pack
Umbrella House Squat [15] , [16], [17]
Adverse possession [18]
Cat Rescue: [19] [20]], [21] [22]
The Pep Girlz: [23] [24] [25] [26]
Sex assignment International Journal of Transgenderism [27] Gender Psychology [28] TransGenderism Basics [29] Toby Meltzer, M.D., & The Greenbaum Surgery Center [30] [31]
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Declined. This article already exists in Wikipedia. lucid 17:02, 4 September 2007 (UTC)