Warriors: Beyond Unicorns and Erasures is the first performance in my Performance as Research book project, Trans Ecologies at the End of the Human.
"Upon reflection, it is easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. Denial is facilitated by persistent racial segregation in housing and schools, by political demagoguery, by racialized media imagery, and by the ease of changing one's perception of reality simply by changing television channels." - Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, pg. 182
"The ungendering of blackness, then, opens onto a way of thinking about black gender as an infinite site of proliferative, constantly revisable reiterations figured 'outside' of gender's established and establishing symbolic order. Its symbolic order, which is simply one articulation of the ordering of things, relies upon gendered others to maintain an epistemological coherence." -C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides, pg. 74
