Oftentimes the call to do something “like a woman” reveals social patterns and formations. For instance, there are associations between certain movements of labour and force with care work. What patterns were you able to pick up in your own movements? How were these reinforced or tensioned through the exercises? 

It is also the case that the call to do something “like a man” habitually elicits movements of labour and force associated with flexing muscles and gestures connected to actions of violence. How did such imperatives of virility cut across your own access to the masculine throughout the exercises? 

When asked to think and act like a person without making explicit a direct relationship to gender, there is a provocation about the movements made previously in the activity. What (dis)comforts and (un)certainties were manifested in these (non)gendered negotiations?