Under the direction of four contributing editors—Amalle Dublon, Kay Gabriel, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, and Anh Vo— we’ve assembled a new body of work by mostly trans and queer artists reflecting on the keyword “gender” and its relation to contemporary performance. Their work moves across multiple genres of writing, from analytic essays to poetry to performance scripts.
On page 48 of this issue you will find a reproduction of an image that was first printed in the Movement Research Performance Journal , Issue #3, 1991. The image...
I am late turning in this letter because I started watching porn. Actually, I was already very late, and kind of stuck, and then the porn helped get me going....
In 2021, my body collapsed from a severe episode of Graves’ Disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes hyperthyroidism. I vividly remember the terror setting in one night when I could...
The third issue of Movement Research Performance Journal , to which the PJ editors requested we respond, is comfortingly of its (1991) moment: an interview with auntie Kate Bornstein; research...
i have been thinking about how to start my MRPJ Guest Editors letter for Issue 60, reimagining the Journal 's third issue, published in the fall of 1991, sometimes referred...
Can gender be performed? This question has preoccupied theorists, spanning the gamut from psychoanalysis to postmodernism, yet it remains elusive. Sigmund Freud offered essentialist conceptions of gender identity rooted in...
It is an impossible task trying to translate a dictionary of Vietnamese slangs and idioms around gender and sexuality, whose melodic playfulness and visceral imageries operate on a vastly different...
We aim to foster the evolution of written and graphic languages that address current issues of dance and performance.