
Sol Cabrini is a performance artist, musician, poet, filmmaker, and scholar from Chicago whose work moves fluidly across disciplines, names, and mediums. The author of Tgirl.jpg (Roof Books, Segue Foundation), Cabrini is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU, where her research examines creolization, Black study, and the aesthetics of disaster. Under the alias Sol Patches, she produces electronic rap that attends to sonic experimentation with cultural memory. Her creative and academic practices are shaped by the movement and interconnections between Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Illinois—regions that pulse through her work as sites of creolité, resistance, and celebration. A former ensemble member of Free Street Theater, Cabrini’s performances, writings, and compositions have been staged, screened, and published across international platforms. Whether composing soundscapes, theorizing diasporic aesthetics, or reimagining trans poetics, her work insists on performance as both an architecture of survival and a refusal of erasure.