GENRE BINARY
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, as my work in the world of theatre has started to make its rounds, I’ve found myself in dialogue with cultural critics, peers, and audiences about how I define queer art and whether I deem the art I make to be “queer.” This has been both exhilarating and vexatious; in the most generous light, the impulse to label my work “queer art” comes from an excitement to introduce my thought and works into a canon that is predominantly white, cisgender, and male.
Yet in a darker reality, identity politics work in tandem with capitalism, situating work into an identity group
