Onstage Intimacy: How Queer, BIPOC Actors Navigate Intimate Performance
Rivera Gianna DiGregorio
Abstract:the Bay Area theater community found itself at a critical juncture. What many BIPOC, queer, and femme artists had been discussing, writing about, and organizing around for decades suddenly flooded the cultural zeitgeist, encouraging more people-especially white people-to contend directly with racism, coloniality, and their own complicity in those systems. Motivated by the national civil unrest over police brutality, a group of self-identified BIPOC theatermakers collectively published a testimonial titled, "We… Show more
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