Queer Space Making and Worldbuilding as Resistance

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What happens when we insert queer bodies into creative worlds and futures that have historically excluded queer people? Is the world complete without queers in it? These questions form the foundation of my artistic practice. I build and write (other)worlds in experimental, speculative, and futuristic visions that explore the queer, alternative, and trans experience as central forces reshaping what worlds can become, rather than accepting them as afterthoughts.
 

I create vital, immersive sites for queer and trans space-taking. My work thrusts queer, trans, nonbinary, and asexual beings into magical realms, futuristic cities, and dystopian Earth through performance, set design, prop design, and stagecraft. I also produce queer music videos that explore surrealism and transrealism for underground queer music artists, extending these worlds beyond the stage into digital and sonic spaces. More than just representation, this work is world-making as resistance.

As founder of the Ex Corpse Art Collective since 2018, I have produced dozens of events at themed Live Action Role Playing festivals and community spaces in Los Angeles and beyond. Our Nonbinary Drag Show is a prominent feature of Neotropolis, a large scale Cyberpunk festival that takes place every spring. We also host our Wasted Drag Show at Wasteland Weekend, the word's largest post-apocalyptic festival. These events exemplify what it means to produce radical queer space making.