Mechanisms of Exclusion: A Gender Story in 3 Parts
The abject is not an ob-ject facing me, which I name or imagine. The abject has only one quality of the object—that of being opposed to the I. —Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror.
Mechanisms of Exclusion is a narrative essay performance seeking to understand, and bring into awareness, the spaces between gender and sexuality. Where does one go when they take up a space without borders, positions, or rules? What happens when one disturbs identity, the categorization order by being too queer or too trans? The body does not register as a subject at all. Invisible, abhorrent, abject.
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Hysterical: A Feminist Killjoy in Bed with Masculinity
A one act monologue exploring hetero-patriarchy, misogyny, and vulnerability expressed as masculinized violence in intimate relationships. It is about the kinds of violence that happen in the home, the bedroom, on a date that we don’t call or even recognize as “violence,” and the aftermath of this silence. It is about what happens in a post-third wave, #MeToo, “consent is sexy” era that will speak to the titillating, the traumatic, the pornographic as it satisfies the repressed sexual appetite of the middle-class voyeur, to the absence of the subdued, boring, private pain of domestic violence.
