"I was an "other," as people call now. But you know, everybody's other than everybody else...I used what was called the "sissy test" — you know, look at your fingernails; if you do it a certain way, you're a butch or a femme. But it turned into a little bit of a look back when I made up a dance based on the quotidian humiliations of junior high school — that age, that degree of development and that confusion and annoyance that happens."
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On incorporating the “sissy test” in one of his dance routines in “'Everybody's Other Than Everybody Else': Choreographer Mark Morris” in NPR (2019 Oct 19)
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