What Love Requires: Stories from Parents of Trans & Nonbinary Adults

Motus Theater presents the first showing of What Love Requires, a new autobiographical monologue project of stories from parents of transgender and nonbinary adults created in collaboration with Motus artistic executive director Kirsten Wilson as part of a Motus storytelling project. The performance features violinist Anthony Salvo playing the musical underscore.

In many ways, the job of parents is to support our children to blossom into the unique gift they were meant to bring to the world. However, every parent’s idea of who our children are can be limited by family or societal expectations (You’re supposed to be a doctor like your parents, not a musician!)

For parents of transgender and nonbinary children, supporting our children has particularly high stakes because of the threats our children currently face simply by living their own true gender, and experiencing the joy we all have when we can truly be ourselves.

Colorado Representative Brianna Titone, the first openly transgender state legislator elected in Colorado, and Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett, will welcome audience members into a performance that shares stories of parents supporting their children to not only survive, but thrive. The performance also celebrates the ways parents are liberated from limiting perceptions about gender in the process of truly seeing and learning from their children.

This event is suited for audiences middle school-age and older. Minors need to be accompanied by a trusted adult.

Performance does include challenges facing transgender and nonbinary children and discusses belonging and suicidality.