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Queer and Trans BIPOC Artists ‘Shapeshift,’ Push Artistic Boundaries

Posted on May 8, 2023

A photo of Lechedevirgen Trimegisto, OUTsider artist.

The Austin-based queer transmedia festival OUTsider, founded by Curran Nault and co-founded by filmmaker PJ Raval, has long been known for pushing artistic boundaries. Last year, I was delighted to profile three of the festival’s BIPOC artists, focusing on how each found moments of liberation in their art during the era of COVID. Although I’ve since moved to my new home in Richmond, Virginia, I was excited to virtually reconnect with my Texas ties to interview a few of the…

QTPOC OUTsider Fest Artists Felix III, mirrored fatality, and Kalup Linzy Find Moments of Liberation

Posted on April 14, 2022

OUTsider fest artists mirrored fatality.

I was grateful for the opportunity to speak directly to OUTsider artists of color Felix III, mirrored fatality, and Kalup Linzy, who all took the opportunity of this difficult moment in the world, in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, to push their work into new dimensions.…

What it is to be an Active Witness: T Lavois Thiebaud and Jason Nodler Talk Collaboration and the Catastrophic Theatre’s ‘4.48 Psychosis’

Posted on January 8, 2022

I first learned of the playwright Sarah Kane through Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre and founder Jason Nodler in 2011, just a few months after I embarked on a dance theater collaboration with a contemporary ballet and dance theater company I had followed avidly for many years. I was running off the high of what the best collaborative relationships can be. It was through that collaboration that I would meet and date one of the actors cast in the Catastrophic Theatre’s production…

Fine Art

Queer and Trans BIPOC Artists ‘Shapeshift,’ Push Artistic Boundaries

QTPOC OUTsider Fest Artists Felix III, mirrored fatality, and Kalup Linzy Find Moments of Liberation

What it is to be an Active Witness: T Lavois Thiebaud and Jason Nodler Talk Collaboration and the Catastrophic Theatre’s ‘4.48 Psychosis’

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