In Praise of Illegibility: Identification, Failure, and Joel Parsons’s Beholding and Being Held
The body is more than just the instrument through which we can resist; how we understand the body itself offers a site of resistance.
Tag: January 2020
Peripeteia: Meditation on Hegemonic Iconoclasm
We seek not to be trivial adornments of achievements or static shelf pieces—we seek liberation over soulless applause.
Come Unity: Activism in the Virtual Realm
“Come.Unity” serves as a gathering place for Black optimism, fostering a Black future without Black death at its end but an end with joy—a communal victory dance.
Curating Political Fellowship at the Intersections between Music and Activism
Any cultural production is in and of itself a political act.
Peripeteia: A Poem
“Invite my hands into yours despite our legs being drawn away from each other Othered.”
Move, Dance, Talk, Resist
For immigrant women to dance and expose themselves through movement is a political act of resistance.
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
Switch: Consent and Gender Non-Conformity in Social Partner Dancing
Fusion-as-Activism is political project that centers gender non-conformity and consent by transmuting these political beliefs into aesthetic and actively enforced social values.
The Moral Economy of Suffering: Citizen Photography as Political Dissent
By positioning themselves as moral actors, these citizen photographers challenge existing power relations.
Tracing the Color of Queer Choreopolitics
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
The Activist History Review 