Interview with Eli Nixon

An interview with Eli Nixon. Nixon is a transqueer person; parent; artist and puppeteer. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in South County of Rhode Island; living and working as a performance artist in Providence in the late 1990s including experiences with AS220; Big Nazo; Fort Thunder; Pronk Parade; living in Philadelphia for 13 years before moving back to Rhode Island; addressing issues of nature; identity and mutual aid in artwork; horseshoe crabs and influence on artwork; personal process to articular themselves as a transqueer person; experience of being pregnant and transqueer.

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Identifier: bv73c0755
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
Creator(s): Nixon, Eli
Contributor(s): Collins, Finch
Date Created: Apr. 29, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Places: Pennsylvania > Philadelphia County > City of Philadelphia > Philadelphia
Rhode Island > Providence County > City of Providence > Providence
Topic(s): Gender non-conforming people
Genderqueer people
LGBTQ+ parenthood
Performance art
Puppet theater
Transgender parents
Transgender people
Transgenderqueer people
Resource Type: Audio
Text
Language: English
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