UMBC MLLI Department

Join us for a conversation on masculinity, performance, and identity!

ID: A performer stands on a stage under blue lighting, wearing a large, flowing, translucent outfit with soft tones, reaching out toward the audience. The flyer also includes colored words layered over the image.
This virtual conversation features Peruvian performer Luciano Anahel, whose work across drag, ballroom, and experimental performance offers a lens to understand masculinity as something constructed, negotiated, and lived. Engaging masculinities from the Global South, this event explores how transmasculine performance challenges dominant norms while opening space for new ways of thinking about identity, embodiment, and belonging. Through artistic practice, participants are invited to reflect on how gender operates across social spaces and how performance becomes a strategy for navigating and reshaping those spaces.