Awaiting Tiresias is a livestream performative autoethnography that uses film and streaming technology to take audience members into the liminal space of medical exam room in which performer left blindfolded dark contemplate their fate. The piece draws upon Greek mythology, common attitudes towards blindness disability, modern conceptions gender its multi-layered analysis identity diagnosis. ex...

Abstract Sethe Suggs, the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, is often compared to Medea. The same analogy with Colchian princess was made by contemporaries relation Margaret Garner, historical person on whose life loosely based. An enslaved African-American woman mid-nineteenth century, Garner killed her own daughter after being found former owner and styled a ‘Modern Medea’ press. D...