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…
Book review: Transgender Cinema, by Rebecca Bell-Metereau is a volume in the Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture series. A media studies professor at Texas State University, Dr. Bell-Metereau has attempted to provide a critical overview of the portraits of transgender people in (mainly American) films, ranging from the early days of silent cinema to…
A one-act play about a cis lesbian who falls for a trans woman.
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…