Presentation by Dr. Julie Patarin-Jossec, Visiting Scholar and Contingent Faculty. This presentation discusses video performance as a method to make “queer ways penetrate the [ethnographic] imagination” (Angela Jones) and “take queer theory seriously” in ethnography (Alison Rooke). Through the example of an ongoing series that articulates live performances, sound, and analog film, I suggest that performance (furthermore when informed by transgender and anarchist theory), can help ethnographers critically address dominant canons in their research and, ultimately, foster hermeneutical justice at the intersection of the social sciences and the arts.