Witness Frankie on their journey towards connecting with queer, trans, and disabled lineages through the murkiness of disembodiment. Carolyn, a curious, awe-filled 11-year-old, and Francis, a wise, mysterious figure, comfort Frankie as they navigate a dangerous and dismissive healthcare system. Faced with their mortality, Frankie reflects on the numbness they want to shed and the connectedness they long for. Moving from disconnection towards embodiment and a reignited relationship with the land they’re on, Frankie begins to remember how to be present again, as they start to uncover the threads that tie them to their queer, trans, and disabled ancestors.

Accessibility Information:

ASL interpreting will be provided for the Sept 24 and 26 shows, and all shows are Low Vision Friendly using integrated description (meaning most visual information is integrated into the auditory elements of the show). Pre-show touch tours and a pre-show audio track that describes quiet moments in the show are available to low-vision audience members. Please contact frankiemcgee0@gmail.com to access them.

Artist Statement:

I began this project in 2021, wanting to explore queer, trans, and disabled community lineages, and how to connect with histories that have been erased, while being immersed in a world that has been shaped by those histories. Since then, animosity towards queer, trans, and disabled people has only grown, evident in social and legislative changes directly targeting these groups’ rights. We’re seeing public displays against queer cultural expression, increased power of the state to end marginalized disabled people’s lives and limit social supports, and expansions to carceral systems. In this terrifying climate, it feels ever more important to root ourselves in queer, trans, & disabled lineages.

There is so much love and fight in these lineages, and their histories have been so intentionally erased. Queer, trans, and disabled people have always existed, in quiet and visible ways, even when we haven’t been given space to do so. weaving creek stones is my grief-and-love-filled effort to reach for the ancestors I am connected to through queer and disabled community, and break through the disembodiment perpetuated by the systems we live under. I hope this show inspires audiences to connect to their own inner knowing, and the wisdom we each hold in all the different versions of ourselves.