... The introduction locates the editors’ shared political investments in the activist work of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, explaining that the book stages a dialogue between queer black and brown performance works and critical traditions. The editors explicate the project’s key terms...

...Queers and/in Performance ...

... In this chapter, Marlon M. Bailey employs an insider perspective to examine Cedric Brown’s play Cuban Hustle . Having performed in a production of the play, Bailey engages the play from the perspective of how its thematics highlight the limited erotic possibilities and marginalization of black...

...The Legacy of Feminist Performance Art in Queer Games ...

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... Ah mén queerness theater and performance ...

... black feminism Strange Fruit queer theory performance ...

... ethnography jazz aesthetic performance black gender and sexuality queerness ...

... morphing Judith Butler queer performativity gender binary transgender rights ...

... then analyzes selected scenes from Strange Fruit to argue that Johnson employs performance studies sensibilities to destabilize essentialist notions of black queer male identity. black queer art black queer studies performance studies ...