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In April 2023 I gave a talk on "Trans Surrealism" for the New York Comic and Picture Stories Symposium. I don't often delve into the more academic side of my art so it was fun to share the theories and influences that go into my work ! Super intimidating too !!!!! Ahhh ! It felt so strange to be giving some sort of lecture, like I'm some sort of expert, to a silent computer screen in my tiny little treehouse apartment. I think it went OK ?? Listen, no one comes out of the womb with a manuscript for Duke University Press and talking about "fungibility" all the time. It takes practice, and I don't even want to get to that point !! So I'm considering this a noble effort for the first time and I hope to expand on this more in the future ♥
GENERAL SYNOPSIS, IF YOU'RE CURIOUS:
A look at the intertwining and complicated histories of trans identities and surrealism, as well as how trans artists have historically been pushed into autobiographical & realist modes of making in order to appeal to cis audiences.