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# A Queer Performance Artist Lampoons White Liberal Activism
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-queer-performance-artist-lampoons-white-liberal-activism/
- Published: 2017-08-29T21:48:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:12:00.000Z
- Description: On August 31, Dynasty Handbag will perform her over-the-top stand-up show I An, Moron at Joe's Pub.
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: Art, Dynasty Handbag, Events, Joe's Pub, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Dynasty Handbag performing I An, Moron (photo by Charlie Gross, courtesy Joe’s Pub)

When you show up to a [Dynasty Handbag](http://www.dynastyhandbag.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) performance, you never quite know what you’re going to get. Maybe she’ll [journey through her own internal organs](https://hyperallergic.com/157304/a-performance-artists-absurd-anatomical-odyssey/) in a sandwich container; maybe she’ll [vogue while talk-singing](https://vimeo.com/175141849?ref=hyperallergic.com) unintelligible words. Either way, she’s bound to use her body to impeccable comedic effect, and to venture into profoundly absurd territory. As Alicia Eler and Alex Huntsberger [once wrote for Hyperallergic](https://hyperallergic.com/why-isnt-there-more-funny-art/), “Her work embraces a kind of middle space, a queering of traditional boundaries — expressing a kind of nihilism where maybe everything matters, maybe nothing matters, but either way, LOL.”

This Thursday, August 31, Handbag — who’s the alter ego of artist Jibz Cameron — will appear at Joe’s Pub for a reprise of *I An, Moron* — which I would call a one-woman show, except that it’s intended to spoof exactly that form, or, more accurately, to queer it. First performed last October at the Hammer Museum, the stand-up show touches on such topics as straight white women having babies, Rihanna, “coyote discrimination” (whatever that is), and much more. Or, as the [event description](http://www.dynastyhandbag.com/calenderrr/2017/1/2/i-an-moron?ref=hyperallergic.com) explains, *I An, Moron* “takes a googley eyed macroscopic look into the climate of contemporary American white activism and its myriad ways to ‘resist’ while still maintaining bourgeois pour-over prison labor coffee and nut milk.” If that doesn’t sound like a show you need to see right now, I don’t know what is.

**When:** Thursday, August 31, 9pm ($20)  
**Where:** Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, East Village, Manhattan)

*More info* [*here*](https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2017/D/Dynasty-Handbag-AUG/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*