The Queer Woods with Mimi McGurl

Sabrina is joined in the trailer by Mimi McGurl, who is a director, performer, and landscape gardener. They sit at the kitchen table to talk about her recent project, The Queer Woods. Mimi asks, "What grows, what lives, what thrives in the space of uncultivated wildness? Queer spaces are most often conceived of as built environments; the bookstore, the club, a neighborhood full of rainbow flags." 

She proposes that wild spaces can offer "...a place for self-discovery and acceptance for those of us who never quite fit in..." Sabrina and Mimi converse about science and Queer literary history as Mimi encourages a meditation on the wilderness to explore infinite possibilities of self-expression and identity. 

What is WJFF - Trailer Talk?

Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk is a combination of live performance, community event and radio broadcast based in the New York's Catskills region. With her vintage 1965 Beeline travel trailer, Sabrina Arteltravels to festivals and events where she invites individuals to participate in what she calls a "public conversation" in a relaxed and comfortable setting. These conversations are broadcast live through speakers mounted outside the trailer, and many interviews are later aired on WJFF during the weekly program. The New York Times described Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk as "an unusual blend of theater, activism and broadcast journalism."