Hi all. Writing blog posts on the internet is a new experience for me, so I will try my best to make this a cool and casual experience for both the reader and myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First off, my name is Andrew Lee. I am a senior here at UMW studying geography. I know everyone was expecting communications or theatre from my topic, but really, I am just a theory-ridden senior spending most of his time somewhere between the HCC and Jepson (RIP Monroe). I do, however, have my foot in the door in Theatre, as I was a theatre major for most of my time at UMW and I am on Studio 115\u2019s committee. We\u2019re a fun, student run theatre on the first floor of duPont. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am so proud of my accomplishments here at UMW that I wanted to expand my work, and dive into this passion project of mine. All theatre students are required to take Theatre History, and in that class is where I learned my passion was still in research and theory. I was introduced to so many cool artforms that I ended up reading tons of books and articles about avant-garde theatre. This is where the project stems from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another cool thing about me is I am trans. I started my transition at UMW, and during the time I learned about cool theatre history, I was finally wrapping my head around my own gender, and seeing my gender performed live in front of me. I sadly did not see any trans artists performing in front of me, and it felt lonely for a bit. I searched on academic sites and my own personal social media, and I started to surround myself with trans performing artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am creating and featuring the work of people I adore in the most professional way. In this video essay, with a working title of Funky Men<\/em>, I tell the story of trans performing artists, how they got to the position they are in, and what their work means to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you all enjoy the more technical posts later on, as I am in the rough draft section of my project now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi all. Writing blog posts on the internet is a new experience for me, so I will try my best to make this a cool and casual experience for both the reader and myself. First off, my name is Andrew Lee. I am a senior here at UMW studying geography. I know everyone was expecting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}