Eli Nixon interview

Interview with Eli Nixon by Finch Collins. Nixon is a transqueer person; parent; artist and puppeteer. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in South County of Rhode Island; living and working as a performance artist in Providence in the late 1990s including experiences with AS220; Big Nazo; Fort Thunder; Pronk Parade; living in Philadelphia for 13 years before moving back to Rhode Island; addressing issues of nature; identity and mutual aid in artwork; horseshoe crabs and influence on artwork; personal process to articular themselves as a transqueer person; experience of being pregnant and transqueer. This interview was created as part of the Queering Oral History course - an oral history course at Brown University in Spring 2020 and taught by Dr. Virginia Thomas. Students were trained in oral history practices and interviewed members of the Rhode Island LGBTQIA community.