Fig Trees, Transliminal Criminals, and Other Plural Nouns: Dispatch from Outfest

[Shana A]

Fig Trees, Transliminal Criminals, and Other Plural Nouns: Dispatch from Outfest 2009
Filed by: Jessica Hoffmann
July 12, 2009 5:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/07/fig_trees_transliminal_criminals_and_other_plural.php

For instance: Hilary Goldberg and Bonfire Madigan Shive's short, Transliminal Criminal, a beautiful meditation/dance around gender fluidity and multiplicity, outsider trajectories, and transgressive states of consciousness. It was especially lovely to see in the midst of a shorts program containing several stories about homonormative lesbian relationships (monogamy + cohabitation + putting-everything-on-an-ideal-of-complementarity-with-one-partner and the frustrated sadness and resentment that too often spew forth from that structure), offering instead a vision of love and life that incorporates and makes space for fluidity, complexity, movement, shifts.

Also exciting for its complexity around gender, relationship, discourse, sex, and more is You Will Never Be a Woman. You Must Live the Rest of Your Days Entirely as a Man and You Will Only Grow More Masculine with Each Passing Year. There Is No Way Out by Van Barnes, Zachary Drucker, Mariah Garnett, and A.L. Steiner.