What Makes a Broken Man?
- Trans anger
- Trans unfolding
- Trans JOY
- Street harassment
- Reclaiming the gaze
- Vulnerability p*rn
Taking the question they threw at me to make me small, “what are you looking at,” and handing it back as a declaration.
Rebuilding — A rebuilt version is in the workshop; the video and photos here are the 2024 version.
A queer, trans burlesque act about throwing away the manual, reclaiming the gaze, and becoming yourself on your own terms. It opens with campy confusion and escalating rage, and transforms into something fiercer and more tender: a body discovering itself, claiming space, and turning "what are you looking at?" from threat into declaration. Transgender anger and joy moving from constraint to confrontation to self-possession.
- Starts
- On stage reading a book called “What makes a good man?”, growing campy, confused and agitated, ripping out pages and flinging them into the audience.
- Turns
- The music breaks into St. Vincent’s “Broken Man.” Still staring back at the audience, the statue cracks and starts discovering a body.
- Lands
- Femme, furious and claiming space: a confrontational “what are you looking at?” that turns into a self-assured “what are *you* looking at?”
Photos
Video
2024 version · DROM, New York · 20 Oct 2024
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