An Introduction is a screening of video works by Portland based Black Transfeminine filmmaker and performance artist, Princess Bouton. The evening includes Bouton’s works Float Bitch, Breather, and Tickled Pink presenting a range of experiences and expressions of a bad bitch in the city.

Princess Bouton is a Black Transfeminine filmmaker and performance artist based in Portland, Oregon. She’s a Portland State University film graduate, class of 2020. She has a dance background that includes modern dance, ballet, and vogue and she often incorporates movement art in her films. Her work explores topics of intersectionality, self love, and body positivity. She extends an invitation for viewers to realize social change and black trans liberation and she unapologetically demonstrates what that freedom could look like. Princess Bouton is also a trained facilitator and activist in the Portland Kiki ballroom scene and is the princess of the kiki House Of Flora. princessbouton.biz

The Show Must Go On(line) is made possible thanks to generous support from the Benter Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Opportunity Fund, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and an Anonymous Foundation.

Princess Bouton, An Introduction presented by KST Global Stream