As Sylvia

Writer and Performer Summer Minerva brings audiences As Sylvia, a dystopic examination of intergenerational trauma suffered by queer and trans folks in a heteronormative world. Ess, a young, institutionalized transperson, questions what happens when society takes our bodies away from us, and how we can reclaim dignity and freedom over our bodies in the face of social media, app culture, drug culture, and queer/trans erasure at the hands of mainstream culture and our government. At once a performance, a ritual, and a history lesson, As Sylvia weaves together the personal and the political, the past and the present, using her own words as well as the true words of trans activist Sylvia Rivera.