Image credit: Kings, Queens, & In-BetweensExperience the performance of gender through a spectrum of drag culture.
This opening session of the Radcliffe Institute conference “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication” will include live drag acts, clips from the award-winning documentary Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens, and a discussion with the makers of the film.
Together, artists and audience will explore questions of gender performance, identity, and expression; examine cultural assumptions; and witness real-time drag transformations.
Free and open to the public.
ASL interpretation will be available for those in attendance.
The Knafel Center is fully accessible. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study encourages persons with disabilities to participate in our programs. If you have questions about accommodations or the physical access provided, please contact the events department at 617-496-1084 or events@radcliffe.harvard.edu at least two weeks in advance of your visit.
Schedule
Welcome and Framing Remarks
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Faculty Director of the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
"Communication Can Be a . . . Drag"
with
Gabrielle Burton, Partner, Five Sisters Productions; Writer and Director, Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens
Jennifer Burton, Partner, Five Sisters Productions; Producer, Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens; Professor of the Practice, Tufts University
and
Robin Bernstein, 2018–2019 Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Faculty Director of the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Special performances by:
Ethan K. Balk / Dr. Cool Ethan
Mara Gross Balk / Twinkerbell
Becky Harrison / The Reverend Roy Rogers
Kristyn Kuennen / Topher Wright
Quyen Tran / Jayden Jameson KA St. James
Corey Williams / Anisa Love