Bienvenue au commencement de sexe et au commencement du siècle. My final project was a class “fashion show”. I was inspired by many things, one being Rita Felski’s article, “Fin de siècle, fin de sexe”, an article on gender confusion and the death of history.

Throughout the year we studied transgender and transitions. We transitioned as a class in many ways. We transitioned from August-December, we had personal transitions, as well as mental transitions. Now, I asked my class to peform a literal transition through the classroom, down the runway. This, however, was not a fashion show that heralded the people popular society calls beautiful “men” and “women”. The guest-list here was men, women, zes, bois, femmes, trannys, gays, lesbians, any living being. I built some stairs, cut some red carpet, and composed a class playlist from songs that inspired my classmates. The stairs transitioned us down to the ground-the reality of things. Above you can watch-sorry for the bad face lighting. Enjoy!