Two As One

“There is no binary”
Boston, MA
2019
conceptualized & performed by Lilly Manycolors
photographed by Tess Scheflan and Luis Edgardo Cotto

“What am I? Man or woman or man or woman or man or woman or man or woman or… What am I? Which thing? Because to you gender is a thing. Your settler-colonial vision is one dimensional. You only see man Or woman. What am I? Man or woman or man or woman or man or woman or man or woman or… I am neither. I am both. I exist beyond your rudimentary philosophies. I am both…and more. My genitalia is not a limitation of gender expression. There is no binary. Only multiplicity.”

A performance art piece about disidentifying the gender binary as an act of sovereignty while navigating a settler-colonial gender dichotomy and culture. This was performed at the Poetry Is Busy show on January 25th 2019 for the IBA in Boston, MA.