2017 BRIDGE PROJECT
RADICAL MOVEMENTS:
GENDER AND POLITICS IN PERFORMANCE
AUDIENCE READER
This reader situates the Bridge Project program in larger conversations about gender and social movements. Although the readings provide context for the program’s featured artists and speakers, they are not meant to be exhaustive, but rather a point of departure for further research and exchange.
Friday, November 10 at 6:30, there will be a Free Pre-show Audience Discussion at CounterPulse, moderated by Hope Mohr. The discussion is an opportunity to discuss the prompt for the Radical Movements program: “What does it mean to have a radical body?” The discussion is also an opportunity to discuss these readings and the performances of Weekend One.
READINGS BY OR RELATED TO RADICAL MOVEMENTS ARTISTS/SPEAKERS
Judith Butler, For and against precarity, In Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, December 2011, Issue 1
Molly Fischer, Think Gender is Performance? You have Judith Butler to Thank for That, New York Magazine, June 13, 2016
Fauxnique (Friday November 3, 8 PM)
Evie Nagy, The Feminine Mystique, BUST Magazine, April/May 2008
Jack Halberstam (Saturday November 4th at 8 PM)
In this interview, Halberstam explains what he means by trans* bodies.
Boychild (Saturday November 4th at 8 PM)
Profile from Dazed
Peacock Rebellion (Friday, November 10, 8 PM)
Neesha, Here’s How Queer and Trans People of Color Are Resisting Gentrification and Displacement, AutoStraddle, May 16, 2017
Maryam Rostami (Saturday, November 11 at 8 PM)
Caitlin Donohue, Future Fantasies Collide, 48 Hills, August 26, 2015
Julie Tolentino (November 12, 3:30-7 performance; 7-8 public discussion)
Recent blog post by Tolentino in Unbound
Profile of Julie Tolentino from Performance Art World
Following the Julie Tolentino performance event on November 12th (3:30-7 PM, Joe Goode Annex), Tolentino’s colleagues Debra Levine and Scot Nakagawa will join Tolentino and The Hard Corps for a discussion of Tolentino’s work from 7-8 PM.
Debra Levine (November 12, 3:30-8 performance/discussion)
Julie Tolentino: Queer Pleasures
Scot Nakagawa (November 12, 3:30-8 performance/discussion)
Nakagawa explains in this interview with Laura Flanders why he believes that the liberation of all people of color in the U.S. is tied to the liberation of African-Americans.
GENERAL
Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger ( blog ) Hello Cruel World Lite
Julian Carter, Transition, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2014, Vol. 1, No 1-2
Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class
Adrienne Edwards, William Pope.L: The Will to Exhaust, Originally published in SPIKE Quarterly (Issue 45, Autumn 2015)
Generative Somatics: Somatic Transformation and Social Justice (website)
Ariel Goldberg, Video of reading from The Estrangement Principle
Michelle Goldberg, What Is a Woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism, The New Yorker, August 4, 2014
Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
Jose Esteban Munoz, Introduction to Cruising Utopia: The There and Then of Queer Futurity
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art History Eds. Amelia Jones and Erin Silver
Interview with Jasbir K. Puar on Dark Matter
Julie Serano, Whipping Girl
Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Jenna Wortham, When Everyone Can Be ‘Queer,’ Is Anyone?, N.Y. Times, July 17, 2016
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