Annie Sansonetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6507368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Sansonetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sansonetti |
| SIGNATURE | SANSONETTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A day at Lia García’s elementary school
This article recounts a day at Mexican writer, activist, educator, and performance artist Lia García's “elementary school”: a “school” that takes the form of invited performances in other teachers' classrooms. It studies García's staging of an applied theatre workshop at an elementary school in November 2020 with her children's story Pan de Mia as its script. In an analysis of García's practice as a transfeminist artist and educator, I argue that…
Girl Talk and Hold Music
In this article, the author visits filmmaker Wu Tsang's 2015 short film Girl Talk at the New Museum in New York. The film's documentation of a dance, the author's fieldwork in the museum, and Tsang's cinematography evidence how feminine boyhood and trans girlhood are better supported in the music, conversation, and dance of what the author calls “girlfriend performance.” Against the violence of adult-authored accounts of trans feminine childhood,…
Black Trans Girlhood, Healing, and Transformative Justice in Akwaeke Emezi's PET
In the fantasy/speculative fiction young adult novel PET (2019), Akwaeke Emezi's fifteen-year-old Black trans girl protagonist, Jam, disrupts the traditional socio-cultural and medico-legal hindrances to Black trans girlhood's “liveness” by actively devising and participating in carefully staged scenes of intracommunal healing and transformative justice. With Jam's knowledge, history, and experience among Black people and community as a guiding l…
Transfeminism for Children
This hybrid research article/three-act play introduces what the author calls “transfeminism for children”—both its practices and its makers—as material for art-based research, criticism, and pedagogy in queer- and trans-affirming childhood studies. It stages three contemporary acts of transfeminism for children to consider how girl friendships refuse cis-normative knowing in favour of making girlhood possible for feminine boys and trans girls: Ac…
Transfeminism for Children
This hybrid research article/three-act play introduces what the author calls “transfeminism for children”—both its practices and its makers—as material for art-based research, criticism, and pedagogy in queer- and trans-affirming childhood studies. It stages three contemporary acts of transfeminism for children to consider how girl friendships refuse cis-normative knowing in favour of making girlhood possible for feminine boys and trans girls: Ac…
Black Trans Girlhood, Healing, and Transformative Justice in Akwaeke Emezi's PET
In the fantasy/speculative fiction young adult novel PET (2019), Akwaeke Emezi's fifteen-year-old Black trans girl protagonist, Jam, disrupts the traditional socio-cultural and medico-legal hindrances to Black trans girlhood's “liveness” by actively devising and participating in carefully staged scenes of intracommunal healing and transformative justice. With Jam's knowledge, history, and experience among Black people and community as a guiding l…
Transfeminism for Children
This hybrid research article/three-act play introduces what the author calls “transfeminism for children”—both its practices and its makers—as material for art-based research, criticism, and pedagogy in queer- and trans-affirming childhood studies. It stages three contemporary acts of transfeminism for children to consider how girl friendships refuse cis-normative knowing in favour of making girlhood possible for feminine boys and trans girls: Ac…
Girl Talk and Hold Music
In this article, the author visits filmmaker Wu Tsang's 2015 short film Girl Talk at the New Museum in New York. The film's documentation of a dance, the author's fieldwork in the museum, and Tsang's cinematography evidence how feminine boyhood and trans girlhood are better supported in the music, conversation, and dance of what the author calls “girlfriend performance.” Against the violence of adult-authored accounts of trans feminine childhood,…
A day at Lia García’s elementary school
This article recounts a day at Mexican writer, activist, educator, and performance artist Lia García's “elementary school”: a “school” that takes the form of invited performances in other teachers' classrooms. It studies García's staging of an applied theatre workshop at an elementary school in November 2020 with her children's story Pan de Mia as its script. In an analysis of García's practice as a transfeminist artist and educator, I argue that…
Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Girl (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)