

After experiencing sexual assault, a survivor can get phrophylactic treatment to prevent infection from possible STD exposure. In this piece, the experience of teeth brushing acts as a form of pyschosocial prophylaxis. By preparing to enter the world with a whitened smile, the survivor attempts to prevent the social ostracism that often comes with being identified as someone who has experienced assault and can present as cleansed and uninfected. This piece explores the act of tooth brushing not as a given routine, but rather as an active struggle with past trauma and involuntary memory.


Prophylaxis

The idea of passing is often associated with the way one’s age, gender, or race is perceived visually. This piece explores how the perception of gender operates away from visual cues when the producer calls into a radio show performing upspeak and vocal fry, and as a result, passes as a “young lady from North Carolina.”

After the recording was completed, pitch modulation was applied to allow the listener to experience a movement of gender assignments of both the caller and other characters in the piece as voice samples are altered in pitch to sound more feminine or masculine.

The aesthetic of this piece mirrors the experience one has while scanning the radio dial for stations broadcast between 87.9–91.9 MHz. As this piece documents the perils of relying on vocal cues to make assumptions about gender, it also seeks to celebrate the surprising intimacies that emerge in the space of community-run radio stations and their 24-hour call lines.


96 Watts

Artists included: Sagor + Swing, Colleen, Ora Cogan, The Jean Jacques Goldman Band

A Relationship In Water Set

Artists include: Soko, Jonie Mitchell, Elizabeth Cotton

Detangling Set

Artists: Princess Century, Ivy Queen, Tennis, The Replacements, Kid Cudi, Pamela Blue, DJ Snake, Eifel 65, Walter y Su Oregano, Julee Cruise

Nan Pincus