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See our plansOn 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...
Back in the early 1990s, Annie Sprinkle calculated that the thousands of cocks she had sucked during her decades as a sex worker could make up the height of the...
I was a dancer before I was a DJ. And I was a medium before I was a dancer. Increasingly over the last years, and almost certainly accelerated by the...
I wrote this text right before the election runoff between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, in November 2020. It marked a departure from addressing white patriarchy directly in my own...
Anh Vo: Gender Without Identity is an amazing and dangerous book. As rich as it is, the relationship between gender, especially its minoritarian forms, and trauma can be easily weaponized....
Issue #3 of the Movement Research Performance Journal was published the year after Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, though both grew out of a burgeoning scene of queer performance practices in...
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