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See our plansCan 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...
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...
What is improvisation? What are people doing when they improvise? What is my own activity as I watch an improvised performance, or any performance for that matter? These are questions...
I have been asked to write something about protest as it relates to dance, to art. It's strange for me, this. I have never seen my work to be especially...
I. The Capital of the American Crisis "Americans never remember, Mexicans never forget” –popular Mexican saying From 1978 to 1991, I lived and worked in and among the cities of...
"The day of individual happiness is passed " –Adolf Hitler Upon graduation from the fine-arts department at Cooper Union, I gave up painting because I felt I didn't have anything...
This speech was given on December 5, 1994 as part of the Gay & Lesbian Plenary Session of the 10th annual meeting of the National Performance Network. I'm Terry Calloway....
it is remarkable that i have done so much hard work—training, rehearsing, performing—for nothing, or next to nothing. money didn't matter. i just wanted to dance. now, juggling creation, production,...
Two years ago I joined the Lesbian Avengers, a direct action group. The group was barely a few months old and creating actions at least once a month. Fifteen to...
"In the life." I remember the first time I heard that phrase, years ago in a lesbian club. A young woman had approached me at the bar, and after chatting...
Following is a series of reflections on the exhibit "Out in Public" by Barbara Stratyner, and a series of writings by Annie Lanzillotto baring her chest within the context of...
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