Meg Foley ’04’s Blood Baby, an artistic project centered on gender and queer parenthood, will be part of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s fall 2023 season, Public Source . Foley, who majored in dance, says the idea for the project came from her regular discussions with other queer parents, which often focused on questions of identity expression: 鈥淲hat does it mean to parent queerly? If this approach feels bodily to me, if it feels like a cultural action or expression of myself, which means that it comes from my person, what is that? And how does that play out when actually a lot of parenting is really mundane?鈥nd then how does your sexuality and sex practice inform your family building?鈥�
Blood Baby‘s production is supported by a New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Production Grant, a National Performance Network Creation Fund Award, Leeway Foundation, and an Indiana University Arts & Humanities grant.