“I want to come from a more constructive point of view, like I am genderqueer. I have a life, and it doesn’t revolve around trying to justify my existence.”
“In a notoriously transphobic industry, I am looking to broaden the scope of opportunities for genderqueer performers from around the globe, as well as expand the diversity of offerings to audiences on one of comedy’s biggest platforms,” Gadsby said in a statement at the time.
“morally abhorrent.” The exhibition will open on June 2, and will run through September 24. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn Museum contactedto emphasize that Elizabeth Sackler retired from its board of trustees in 2018 and currently has Trustee Emeriti status, and is not an active board member., Gadsby opens up about the upcoming exhibit, their feelings on Dave Chappelle, and their latest standup, “Something Special,” which is currently available for streaming on Netflix.
The further I got into the tour, the less people wanted to hear about pandemic topics. I really took the lead from the audience, and I noticed that if anything, people are looking for a framing that wasn’t beginning from lockdown jokes. I think there was also a fatigue around the subject that perhaps meant I didn’t have a fresh take on it — or perhaps people didn’t want to hear about it. And I think we’re still collectively trying to work out what that pandemic was.
As you’ve said in the past, people have referred to your specials as sort of “lectures.” Did that also inform some of your creative process behind “Something Special?” For a start, it’s boring. There was a time in the tour when it was certainly in front of my mind, and then it very quickly receded. My audience likes me because they don’t like the usual toxic perspective, and to talk about him would be to center his conversation — and I just don’t want that voice to be dictating how I approach my work.
If you want to change the conversation, you still have to be a part of the conversation. So that was really what informed me to keep trying with this relationship. Part of that is that I have this second special that we’re working on now, where I’m curating a lineup of fairly new genderqueer performers from around the world, trying to break it out of the American-centric idea.
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