Solo Autoethnographic Performance

Beginning in March 2018, I began a solo performance exploration of Selfies on social media that self-reflexively challenge how we hone-fetishize-dominate a perception of ourselves. The 1-2 minute performances ask audiences to consider how we “Selfie” mediate our experiences, which are intended to produce an emotional response for both participateparticipants and the observer.

In an ongoing fight to defunct reproductive rights, the Texas State Government’s position on women’s health practices places female bodies in conflict as human/non-human/sub-human entities. Using performance as a method of inquiry, this solo performance piece attempts to grapple with how public policy on reproductive rights undervalues the lives of low-income women, sanctioning political rhetoric as absolute truth while diminishing low-income women as inconsequential victims looking for material gains. Bordering on sincerity and absurdity, I reimagine a series of Texas State congressional hearings on Planned Parenthood using transcripts, various news articles, interviews, random audience members, paper plate face masks, headless baby dolls, and a portable karaoke machine. Additionally, my performance lingers between empathy and apathy as I deliberate on my role as “a low-income” and “mother” and the relationship between the two therein.