As I lay floating and enveloped in a hot spring, the mask of my face barely bobs above the waterline. Reading this verse, you aren’t experiencing this sensation of being carried by the warm womb of this pool. But, you know what it is to feel water on your skin. You also know the feeling inside yourself, of your ‘intuitive gender’— it’s the part that exists underneath exposure to the symbolic world. Describing intricacies of this feeling with a solely semiological discourse will never be the experience. A,“queer methodology” (as Jack Halberstam puts it) that changes discourse with art-making will come closer to an accurate description than the familiar words that have indoctrinated us into misgendered states of being. 

Genre-Énoncé began by collaborating with Faux Pas le Fae after coming into connection over mutual mental health difficulties. We conversed about what it is to be queer gender queers from conservative Texas backgrounds, and from these conversations, created multi-media , performative exchanges emanating non-linear communication. 

Swerving from the rigidity of our religious childhoods, I imagine that Faux Pas and I are, in multiple bodies, queered pieces of sacred existence. I’ve written the mythology of our heritage and combined this sacred text with feminist psychoanalysis and gender theory. This oral and written exchange inspiredthis choreographed ritual where we strip off our gendered costumes to reveal our current queer manifestations— which stay kaleidoscopic. As symbolic borders separate us, Faux Pas’s communion was film at her studio in Brooklyn while in London, I performed in front of her projection.