Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are writers, musicians, and performers: they are also both admitted 'gender failures.' In this collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. .Based on their acclaimed 2012 live show that toured across the United States and in Europe, the book is a collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and Rae's personal journeys. It's a book that will touch LGBTQ readers and others, revealing that gender comes in more than two sizes.
The collection contains nine performance scripts by black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices. The volume's framing device 'blacktino' grounds the specificities of black and brown social and political relations. Whether interrogating constructions of Latino masculinity, theorizing the black queer male experience, or examining black lesbian relationships, the contributors present blacktino queer performance as an artistic, critical, political, and collaborative practice