Annie Sansonetti

Annie Sansonetti is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her dissertation posits art histories of love and heartbreak in performances of transgender girlhood.

Submissions

Stage Directions for Trans Girls in Love

Lights up on a bare stage enveloped in a heart-shaped frame. Five trans girls over the age of 40 enter holding hands and flirting under bright light.

Stage Directions for Trans Girls in Love : Gloss

The extravagance of these small fragments and minor aesthetic details are not wasteful, but beautiful. Think trans girl with diminutive ambition, sufficient amuse-bouche, endless caress, depressive, but comfortable, reparative when she leaks a little, and juvenile with a crush.