ESMÉ RODRÍGUEZ

Esmé Rodríguez is a Minneapolis-based, queer-identified, scholar, artist, and designer, originally from NYC. She has a Masters Degree from Boston College and studied her PhD at the University of Minnesota. She is a self-taught seamstress and designer. Much of Esmé's academic and creative work exhibits themes of non-binary gender identities, the deconstructions of femininities and masculinities, and innovations of histories and pop culture. She has taught at the university level for 12 years and is currently touring national colleges with her "Gender Show and Tell Panel," which engages in the discussion and performance of fashion and gender expression from non-traditional cultural perspectives.

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Esmé is the director and producer of Dragmanity, a hybrid drag and theater show at The Bryant Lake Bowl Theater and is also the show director for Sequin Sundays, every Sunday at Town House. She also writes the monthly column "Quantum Queer" in My Scene City Magazine. Highlights of her 11 year drag and design career include regular performances in San Francisco and Amsterdam, working with Peaches Christ for the Minneapolis Premiere of "All About Evil" in 2010, as well as being chosen to work as an invited artist at The Walker Art Center in 2008. In Esme's words, "both gender and sex are non-binary social constructs; discourses that are influenced by politics, environment, and pop cultures."