Category: Theater/Play

Art Critique Essay Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theater/Play Theory

Making Trans Cinema: A Roundtable Discussion with Felix Endara, Reina Gossett, Chase Joynt, Jess Mac and Madsen Minax

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In conversation with Jules Rosskam, trans filmmakers Felix Endara, Chase Joynt, Reina Gossett, Madsen Minax, and Jess Mac explore the contemporary state of trans cinema production, trans methodologies and social practices, the corporeality of cinema, and the relationship between theory and practice. Like somatechnics complicates the term ‘body modification,’ cinema broadens the ways in which…

Art Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Other Photography Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences Theater/Play Theory Uncategorized

X-RECEPTION Re-mediating Trans- Feminist and Queer Performance Art

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This chapter attends to the importance of building infrastructures of and for Trans- Feminist and Queer (TFQ) cabarets across platforms in order to host the cabaret’s mobility, and the conditions of vulnerability and risk that emerge for trans- feminist and queer performers and audiences with each new physical and online venue. TFQ scenes tend to…

Classics Critique Essay History Humanities Journal/Diary Nonfiction Poetry Theater/Play Theory

My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix – Performing Transgender Rage

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The following work is a textual adaptation of a performance piece originally presented at “Rage Across the Disciplines,” an arts, humanities, and social sciences conference held June 10-12, 1993 at California State University, San Marcos. The interdisciplinary nature of the conference, its theme, and the organizers’ call for both performances and academic papers inspired me…