Writing

Lessons in Anatomy (work in progress)

Lessons in Anatomy aims to create a repository for all the negative thoughts, fears, doubts, and second guesses that come with bodily transformation, namely with changing sex. Navigating a medicalized transition, it turns out, produces a landfill’s worth of psychic garbage, and Lessons in Anatomy hopes to take out the trash.

The Eyes of Others

Published in Open Space, 2021

A personal essay on Anne Carson’s Bakkhai, Hope Mohr and Maxe Crandall’s Bacchae Before, and the importance of recognition.  This is a process piece, written during rehearsals for Bacchae Before. In it I tie the production to my own transition and to the growing wave of anti-trans laws affecting trans minors around the United States.

Read here: The Eyes of Others

Photo by Robbie Sweeny

If You Shout Brick…

Presented at Place Talks at the Prelinger Library, 2019

What does it mean to be a trans woman in public? Passing, visibility, and bricks.

A performance-lecture and extended meditation on Nicki Green’s “Forces of Faggotry” -or- Brick as the precarious duality of being seen and burning it all down (2018).

Read here: If You Shout Brick…