The knife cuts both ways Created by Cecilia Gentili
About This Show
When the judge gave me the verdict: ‘Ms. Gentili, I am going to allow you to stay in the US under a full asylum,’ I couldn’t wait to go back to Argentina! Returning would be awesome, weird, sad and fun! And it would reveal how a ‘New York downtown transsexual sweetheart’ was made from an ugly Argentinean Litoral birthplace. And the sex was part of the whole development, sweet and dirty and full of merits. Developed in a DP lounge residency throughout 2017, The Knife Cuts Both Ways is a hilarious and raunchy autobiographical take on one trans woman’s queer multicultural experience.
about the artist
Originally from Argentina, Cecilia Gentili started working as an intern at the LGBT Center where she found her passion for advocacy and services and after that she ran the Transgender Health Program at Apicha CHC from 2012 to 2016. She currently serves as the Director of Policy at GMHC. She was a contributor to Trans Bodies Trans Selves and is a collaborator with Translatina Network. That’s for work. For fun, she acts sometimes and loves doing storytelling events where she talks about her life experiences. She is very passionate about advocating for her community, and mostly for transgender women with a Latino background, sex work, drug use and incarceration history.
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 7:30pm
Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 9:30pm
General Admission
$18 in advance
$21 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
75 minutes
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Credits
Assistant:
Gogo Graham
Visuals collaboration:
Serena Jara
Styling:
Nina Lebron, Julio Alvarez