Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

If one were to view a day in my life as a performance, they would see a few costume changes and a variety in the activities I partake in. Some of these activities, like playing games online with my boyfriend, are thought to be mainly masculine and avoided by females. I genuinely enjoy them. I also have a Rocky poster on the wall in the living room of my apartment and shelves stocked with gaming consoles, so this setting would probably surprise some people. Additionally, I have quite a few unisex apparel items, which would factor into the costumes . This word unisex is interesting to me, I hope to get into it in my corpus sometime.

On the other hand, I enjoy being a girly girl. I love to dress up and curl my hair and apply mascara, so the audience would see this feminine part of me as well. I don't feel that this is vapid or tragic; I am not obsessed with image by any means, but I enjoy the preparation of getting ready. I would hope to bring to light the mixed cultural elements that are not often discussed in association with individual genders. My improv would challenge the notions of what is feminine behavior and what is masculine. I would hope to prompt some discussion along the lines of "Girls can play video games without being tomboys? Girls can enjoy fashion magazines and action movies? Well, why not? Why do we always act like you must pick one set of interests to devote yourself to and abandon all the other options?"