Digital Transgender Archive
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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- https://provlibdigital.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A28946
- Citation
- Cite
- Identifier
- bv73c0755
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
- Creator(s)
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Nixon, Eli
- Contributor(s)
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Collins, Finch
- Date Created
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Apr. 29, 2020
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Places
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia County
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City of Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
Rhode Island > Providence County > City of Providence > Providence
- Topic(s)
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Gender non-conforming people
Genderqueer people
LGBTQ+ parenthood
Performance art
Puppet theater
Transgender parents
Transgender people
Transgenderqueer people
- Resource Type
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Audio
Text
- Language
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English
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