Your tax dollars at work.
The National Endowment for the Arts released its latest round of grants, with new taxpayer-funded art such as Macbeth with zombies, cowboy poetry, a play about privilege, and a traveling gay men’s chorus.
The new art projects touch on prominent liberal concerns such as gun control, climate change, and gender identity issues.
The drag queen “Fauxnique” is back, receiving part of a $30,000 grant in San Francisco. Monique Jenkinson, a “feminist, postmodern, improvisational dance” artist whose drag queen alter ego is “Fauxnique,” received funding last year for a performance titled “Gender in Transition.”
This year’s grant will support the “world premiere of Monique Jenkinson’s ‘Delicate Material,’ which questions how society views gender and misogyny.”
“Fauxnique made herstory as the first cissexual female to win a major drag pageant,” according to Jenkinson’s website.
Other projects on gender identity and sex include the play Trans Scripts about six men who are now women, costing $50,000. [..]
Part of a $30,000 grant went to Doggie Hamlet, while a play about going back in time to kill Christopher Columbus cost $10,000.
A play about “privilege and class” in America will cost taxpayers $30,000.
The play “relates the events of one explosive Halloween night when two couples find themselves engaged in incendiary conversations about the differences between haves and have-nots in America, and whether it is possible to heal from inherited trauma and transcend the financial situation into which one is born,” the grant states.