XTRA: Dragging Genre

A generative workshop with Moonyeka
Saturday August 3rd 1pm-3:00pm Pacific
(A recording will be made available to all registrants for a limited time afterwards.)

In Dragging Genre, Moonyeka calls upon the lineages of QT nightlife to play with performance techniques in your writing.

This course is for queer and trans artists who want to infuse their storytelling with showtime strategies rooted in queer nightlife, burlesque, and drag performance tactics.  

There is an alchemical magic in being explicit and overt in our truth-telling. In a world where there is so much anti-trans and queer legislation, there is a necessity to be sharp in our analysis; (to be cunty) in our commentary.  What happens when your tools are a bar stage? You have 10 minutes—one act to say the damn thing. Where do you enter, with how much glitter, when does fantasy exit, and where does sincere euphoria get to take center?

This course is free for QTBIPOC nightlife performers and workers, this space is for you to try on what we know in the whirlwind form that is writing!

Be prepared to:

• practice honor in harnessing QT nightlife techniques in your work

• play with spectrums of extravagance and overtness

• try on glamour forms

• subvert and toy with moderate and normative culture of cis-heterosexuality and gender

• embrace the practical beauty of meanness

Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$200 Ultraviolet — This is an invitation to reallocate resources. This makes this event more accessible by covering costs for QTBIPOC participants.

$100 Spotlight (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.) This covers the cost of time, lived experience and materials. This tier supports this offering sustainability to continue to be shared.

$60 Redlight — This tier is my offering to make this workshop more accessible but does not reflect the time, lived experience, materials and magic.

This workshop is FREE to QTBIPOC SW’ers and Drag Queens—email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com to register if that’s you!

nawa alviar horton, known as "Moonyeka" (they/them) is a mixed Ilocano, non-binary-bakla shapeshifter who takes form as an interdisciplinary performing artist, writer, facilitator and so much more. They have the honor of being the Artistic Director of The House of Kilig and Founding space tender of Paruparo - a qtpoc haven in Portland, OR. With a specialty in offering sensually sacred dance and movement-based storytelling experiences, Moonyeka's performance, community organizing and divination work centers kapwa, maarte and kilig as a compass to imagine worlds where their communities can thrive.

They’re currently developing an upcoming work, Harana For The Aswang. Harana for The Aswang is an interdisciplinary performance work centered on the research of harana, a Filipinx serenade song form rooted in courtship and grief rituals.

nawa draws upon QT performance technologies in their writing, infusing nightlife, icon-myth-legend, drag, tease, and kink. You can find them frollicking in a spectrum of fleurotic, chimeric writing fields such as: biomythography, hybrid-wtfness, and the game writing industry. They were recently published in smoke and mold with their multiverse of work centering Waling-Waling Orchids. Am I Hot Enuf 2 Kill? a series of hybrid prose, will be published Spring 2024 in The Holy Hour anthology, by Working Girls Press.