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Performance

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Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag

  • Robert Julius
  • April 14, 2020
If the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
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The Dark Lady

  • Janet Pocorobba
  • January 13, 2017
In my imaginings, Ava was always a woman driving at night, a face behind glass in a shiny speeding vehicle, motoring down the road.
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FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival

  • Liz Wood
  • September 2, 2016
Although the performance was over a month ago, a gorgeous video of FKA twigs’s set at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago was recently released online. The artist has not performed much beyond…
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Remembering the Boxing Poet

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • June 9, 2016
He flipped similes and metaphors like a battle rapper holding court in a cipher that was his and his alone. Even his jabs were like couplets that told you more…
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Joanna Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • Liz Wood
  • May 25, 2016
Joanna Newsom performed “Sapokanikan” and “Anecdotes” from her recent album Divers on Jimmy Kimmel this weekend, Stereogum reports, playing the former on the show itself and the latter as a web exclusive. Watch videos from both…
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Drake Returns to SNL

  • Liz Wood
  • May 18, 2016
The artist delivered a plea that he is “more than a meme” during his host’s monologue on SNL this week before performing “Once Dance” and “Hype.” Catch all of the…
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Rock Show at the Sistine Chapel

  • Liz Wood
  • May 4, 2016
It happened—we’ve entered a new dimension: there has been a rock concert at the Sistine Chapel. It was the Edge, it was a benefit, and Leonard Cohen was covered, Stereogum reports. Watch a…
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The Weeknd Performs with Lauryn Hill

  • Liz Wood
  • February 24, 2016
The Weeknd and Ms. Lauryn Hill performed together on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, joining up to sing “In the Night” from The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness, Vulture reports. Watch the video after…
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This Week in Posivibes: Sir Elton John

  • Liz Wood
  • February 9, 2016
In a demonstration of why he embodies the very essence of posivibes, Sir Elton John gave a surprise concert for London commuters in the city’s St. Pancras Station. The performance…
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“Performing” Toxic Masculinity

  • Michelle Vider
  • November 2, 2015
Genevieve Valentine explores the performance of toxic masculinity for Strange Horizons. Valentine uses the horror movie The Guest to deconstruct both the camp and the too-real danger of toxic masculinity: The…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • October 10, 2015
The more narratives that approach reality "differently" get treated as "insane" or "unreal," the less readers are exposed to them, and the more "unreal" or "insane" they seem. It's like a feedback loop.
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The Sad Girls’ Triumph

  • Michelle Vider
  • September 28, 2015
Emily Gaynor writes for Weird Sister on the performative aesthetic of Internet “sad girls,” who use their work to explore the boundaries  of acceptable/unacceptable public displays of emotion for women:…
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