“It’s time to perform!” Lucy Bucheit `29 projected through her hot pink megaphone, encouraging people to participate in Grinnell’s first Performative Male contest on Saturday, Sept. 27. Sign up for the performative male contest here! Over the course of the next hour, 11 contestants of all genders were weeded out through audience applause, to crown the most performative, performative male. — Quentin Patrick Kelly `29, Winner of Performative Male ContestThe contest organizers agreed that you do not have to be male to be a performative male, and hoped that audience members walked away from the contest with a little bit more self awareness about the parts of themselves that are performative. “I don’t know that Grinnell necessarily needed the reminder to be genuine and not performative,” Brightly said.