In 2007, I made two videos inspired by Thomas Edison’s 1901 film entitled the Gordon Sisters Boxing. The sisters were the first female pugilists who toured vaudeville. I used the Victorian woman engaged in “unfeminine” athletic performance as an absurdist metaphor for the confines of gender as well as a spectacle of male desire. In 2011, I moved to Texas and Planned Parenthood lost its funding. Given the current social climate, I decided the Victorian woman (with a Marie Antoinette wig) needed to reappear. This time she takes on Jon Kyl, who erroneously stated to Congress that 90% of Planned Parenthood’s funding went to abortion services.
