Abstract
This narrative describes coming to performance studies from an academic and professional background in theater. It recognizes performance not just as an object of study and method of inquiry, but also as a way for someone who often feels like an outsider to be more meaningfully connected to a world he believes can and should be better.
Notes
[1] Garnet C. Butchart, building on Giorgio Agamben and Julia Kristeva, observes we are “fractured irrevocably,” constituted in difference (25).