When I was a child (and even as an adult) my least favorite joke was used by everyone – my grandmother, my friends at school, and strangers. The joke is that I am Ms. Magoo. For those of you who never saw the Mr. Magoo cartoons, they were essentially a whole series of sight gags based on people not being… Read more →
This is going to be a long form series, as I think about and interrogate my graduate school experience. To be brief, it took me almost five years to complete a two year degree, in large part due to issues revolving around academic accessibility for students with disabilities. As my rage has cooled over the last month, as I have… Read more →
Sex & The Seizure by Asal (author has requested only her first name be published.) I met a gentleman From HowAboutWe the other day. It was a bit accidental, I was going to meet him at some respectable time, but I’d taken my anticonvulsants, and somehow invited him over to my apartment at 1 in the morning. Nothing like… Read more →
There’s a saying that you can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends. Well this is also true of your performance context. You can’t pick what has come before you, but you can pick how you inhabit the space created by the past – and who you choose to share that space with. As a burlesque performer, and… Read more →
