MASCULINITY, QUEERNESS & THE THREE-HEADED SERPENT

Masculinity, Queerness & the Three-Headed Serpent is an evolving autobiographical performance and research project examining masculinity as something assigned, resisted, curated, performed and continuously renegotiated. The “three-headed serpent” frames a tension between queerness as political refusal, queerness as an expanding umbrella identity, and the ways queer communities can turn structural conflict inward. From there, the work moves through masculinity, desirability, gaze, assimilation, nightlife, drag and the hierarchies reproduced within spaces created as alternatives to the mainstream. Drag becomes particularly important within the project because it exposes masculinity as something that can itself be constructed and performed. The project’s position is not an argument for abolishing masculinity, but for destabilizing and expanding it beyond its dependence on distancing itself from femininity, transness, race, disability and softness.