Be JEWELED: A glimpse into DRAG ACTIVISM with artist Jethro Patalinghug

We welcome you into Be Jeweled an immersive art experience, film screening + community conversation by artist Jethro Patalinghug. What does nonbinary look like? These headpieces represent queer sub-cultures that subvert the binary ideology.

Material: broken/used drag jewelry, pins, styrofoam heads + video mapping

ABOUT THE ART:

Jethro’s body of work centers around their personal experience as a nonbinary Filipino immigrant and the larger narratives of the LGBTQIA+ community. Their first film, My Revolutionary Mother, follows their personal migration story and their conflicted relationship with their political activist mother. Their first feature documentary film, 50 Years of Fabulous, chronicles the 50-year LGBTQ civil rights movement through the organization - The Imperial Council of San Francisco. His unreleased film, #mynameis, follows the protest movement against Facebook’s “real” name policy in 2015 which disproportionately affected the LGBTQIA+ community, domestic abuse survivors, Native Indians, and various ethnic identities. Jethro exhibited their work “Disco…