Because I am interested in what I have been thinking about for many years now as “transmedial drag”-- or the method of moving materials, performances, ideas, bodies, feelings from one media, one body, to another, I was paying attention to what worked and what didn’t work in these online live shows.
Desi butch is a method for storytelling and desi butch is a story and desi butch is a story we are trying to learn to tell though our bodies are already the protagonists.
I’ve been thinking about the Cabaret Commons aspiration to establish ethical queer performance archives online. This dilemma faces two opposing demands: to make permanent queer history, but also to preserve the sanctity or privacy of their original context.
Concluido el sexenio del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto en México, la teatrera mexicana Leticia Pedrajo, reflexiona sobre la conclusión del ciclo de la obra de cabaret que ella misma escribió: "Quique y Angie, la pareja imperial".
Vycktorya Letal Apocalipstick, Mexican artist and activist, tells her story of cabaret, ballroom, vogue, and queer nightlife as a member of the Mexico City chapter of the International Royal House of LaBejia and House of Apocalipstick.
Artemisa Téllez, hace una reflexión feminista sobre "Los caballeros las prefieren presas" cabaret de Minerva Valenzuela, @ladelcabaret. Marilynares, una mujer en la cárcel, participa en un concurso reality show para obtener su libertad.