C*NT channels feminist rage to confront the ruptures caused by the stress of difference. As a feminist performing drag, I propel my own body into the history of drag’s complex relationship to femaleness: a relationship of fascination, honor, and revulsion. Both the (misogynistic) pathologizing and (feminist) mythologizing around the female body are a source of frustration, fascination, and humor for me. Through camp and ironic play, I delight both in deflating misogyny, and poking at the preciousness of contemporary feminism. C*NT holds this multiplicity – the frustration, fascination, and humor – and requires me to grapple with complexity and simultaneity.
- Premiere: Walking Distance Dance Festival, ODC Theater, San Francisco, 2017
- Performance: Fauxnique
- Creation, writing & choreography: Monique Jenkinson
- Dramaturgy: Jesse Hewit, Nicole Archer, Hope Mohr, Larry Arrington, Christy Funsch
- Costume: Jonathan Solo
- Lighting: Del Medoff
- Sound: Marc Kate
- Video Documentation: Loren Robertson Productions & RAPT Productions