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New episode: Access Intimacy in Academic Spaces (with guest Katya Vrtis)
Nicolas welcomes Dr. Katya Vrtis back to the podcast. They turn their practice of crip theorizing-in-process to Mia Mingus’ concept of access intimacy and the possibilities it offers as a way of thinking about and practicing accessibility in higher education. Key questions include: What is access intimacy, and what interventions might it make where higher ed’s…
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Two-Part Episode: Making Monsters
Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard is joined by Dr. Katya Vrtis and Kairos Looney to unpack the contemporary wave of anti-trans politics. And to talk about monsters. Bringing together performance studies with queer-/crip and critical race theories, the conversation serves as a space to theorize collaboratively, to process, to strategize modes of resistance.
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Roundtable Part 2: Queer Failure, Queer Possibility
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: How have the constraints of existing archives caused (invited? necessitated?) what Jack Halberstam calls “queer failure”? Where do we see queer possibility in the archive? Their conversation offers a range of queer interventions for scholars and students of performance and history…
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Conference panel-turned-podcast. Pedagogy in Process.
How do we queer the archive? Or the conference? How do we bend the format to fit people in the session rather than fitting ourselves into traditional formats and structures? One response to that was to turn our conference panel into a podcast.
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Podcast Episode: Making Space for Self-Authorship through Audio Description
One of my favorite things about working on Gender Euphoria, the Podcast, is getting to be in conversation with brilliant queer and gender nonconforming artists, activists, and educators. This time around I had the chance to bring together two people who I have had the privilege to learn from and introduce them to one another.…
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Overview: A Talk, A Performance, A Gathering
Tuesday, April 4 Kelvin Smith Library, Dampeer Room. CWRU Campus, Euclid Ave. Cleveland “Exploring Queer-Trans Intimacy, Disability Aesthetics, and Community Care” A director’s talk by Nicolas Shannon Savard in conjunction with the Special Collections Department at Kelvin Smith Library, 4:00pm Listen to the talk here Thursday, April 6 Playwriting Workshop with JC Pankratz sponsored by…
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Digital Program: Seahorse
DIRECTOR’S NOTE When I first read Seahorse about a year ago, I was drawn to its poetry, its blurring of the constraints of time, space, and bodies. Beyond what Reuben says explicitly, JC’s stage directions offered a glimpse into his inner world. As a reader, I was sometimes observing the lone character, at times in…
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Seahorse: Content/Trigger Warnings
Given the poetic, non-realistic nature of this production, there are few moments that directly depict many of the topics below. However, given this project’s engagement with consent-based, trauma-informed performance practice, I feel it’s important to allow folks to assess their own risk and exercise boundaries as needed. If at any point during the performance you…