Performing to a Sesame Street song from my childhood, I am reimagining what a "Monster in the Mirror" could mean for me in this moment. Part emboldening of a theatrical younger self and part joyful resistance, this performance art piece celebrates the existence of trans and nonbinary people through recruiting my fellow monsters.

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Al Ellison is a trans-nonbinary, mixed race, queer performance artist. They uplift movement as a way to work nonlinearly through collaborating with the body as an archiving entity. Al equips tools such as memory, improvisation, gestures, childhood, and the everyday with aims of healing, release, pleasure, and play. Al received their M.F.A in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside (2023) and is currently completing their Masters of Social Work from Cal State East Bay.