Cruising for Emotional Connection is a 50-minute one-person performance and performance installation that explores the bathhouse as a sacred space of radical vulnerability, self-discovery, and ancestral veneration. The story follows a twenty-two-year-old named Allen who encounters an assortment of characters in his overnight visit to the Triple D Den in Dallas. Allen develops a budding relationship with a 65-year-old Black man named Tony who works as an attendant in the Den. Tony acts as Allen’s guide and ultimately teaches Allen how to cruise for anonymous, no strings attached sex. The story is told through moments of call-and-response, poetic soliloquy, stand-up comedy, and autobiographical prose.